A plan to redesign a busy intersection in West Portal has been put on hold following backlash by local merchants. Instead, community members will form a committee to explore options for improving neighborhood safety while balancing traffic and parking impacts on surrounding streets. According to a joint news release issued Friday from Supervisor Myrna Melgar, whose District 7 includes the West Portal area, and Deidre Von Rock, president of the West Portal Merchants Association, the Welcoming...
Google is laying off 50 more Bay Area workers, adding to the hundreds of local cuts the company has already made in 2024. This time, the announcement came just two days before the Mountain View tech giant hit a major financial milestone. The job cuts mostly hit software engineers, counting 50 Sunnyvale-based workers across three offices on Crossman Avenue. Google disclosed the details in a WARN filing on April 24, as is required under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act in the...
It’s surely been a whirlwind first week as a San Francisco 49er for first-round pick Ricky Pearsall. As he gets ready to come to the Bay Area to stay, one local sports talk radio show decided to give him a plethora of advice. Pearsall joined “The Morning Roast” on 95.7 The Game (KGMZ-FM) on Wednesday, doing a 20-minute interview with hosts Bonta Hill and Joe Shasky. In a segment that touched on Pearsall’s college days, what he brings to the 49ers and a bunch of rapid-fire “get to know you”...
Any possible interest that the 49ers had in trading wide receivers Brandon Aiyuk and Deebo Samuel, even after the team’s controversial first-round pick, appears to have made its way out of San Francisco’s front office entirely. As last Thursday’s NFL Draft approached, rumors of the Niners moving on from their breakout receiver began to emerge a lot more frequently. The 26-year-old Aiyuk, in the final year of his rookie deal, had yet to receive a proper extension and wasn’t exactly quiet about...
As students protest the war in Gaza at college campuses across the nation, several groups are planning demonstrations across the San Francisco Bay Area in conjunction with May Day on Wednesday. Local officials are advising people to prepare for delays on roadways and public transit, especially in Oakland and San Francisco. In San Francisco, one group is planning a march from 24th and Mission streets to City Hall on Wednesday morning. SF Municipal Transportation Agency said multiple bus lines...
Meteorologists are fine-tuning California’s weekend forecast that shows a cold May storm sweeping the Golden State, bringing widespread rain, mountain snow and cool temperatures. Far Northern California could see up to 3 inches of rain, while Southern California is more likely to receive a sprinkling, according to the National Weather Service. “I would call this a late-season storm,” said Bob Oravec, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Weather Prediction Center. “It doesn’t typically...
March 1994 saw rain in the Colorado Desert near Indio, California. After the storm, hunters went out into a part of the desert off Interstate 10. There, uncovered by the rain, they found a body in a shallow grave. The woman appeared to be in her 70s or 80s with wispy white hair; she was dressed in a pink robe and an adult diaper. No one could figure out who she was. In 2021, the cold case unit of the Riverside District Attorney’s Office submitted the woman’s DNA to Othram, a private lab that...
San Francisco State University joined several other colleges this week in a nationwide movement protesting the war in Gaza. Hundreds of students, faculty and other pro-Palestinian advocates gathered Monday at Malcolm X Plaza for a rally before setting up an encampment in front of the Cesar Chavez Student Center. When SFGATE visited the campus Tuesday morning, more than 30 tents were set up in the grass area. The encampment was relatively quiet, with students and supporters gathered outside,...
Tesla’s Cybertrucks first rolled onto customers’ driveways last November, arriving to both derision and praise for their unique appearance. But its severe, angular profile isn’t so unique anymore: A very similar-looking vehicle showed up this week at the 2024 Beijing auto show. The massive vehicle exhibition — NPR called it “the Super Bowl, except for cars” — hosts major automakers from across the globe in China’s capital from April 25 to May 5. In a huge conference hall, companies showed both...
Amid a public outcry to make San Francisco’s streets safer, the San Francisco Police Department promised at a Board of Supervisors hearing on Thursday to begin cracking down on unsafe drivers. Commander Nicole Jones, who supervises SFPD’s transportation division, presented a plan at the meeting that detailed how the department will step up efforts to enforce traffic laws, specifically speeding. As part of the plan, Jones said the department will boost patrols in 10 of the city’s most crash-prone...
A video shared on social media Monday shows a police pursuit outside a San Mateo Target store that was part of a larger retail theft operation by three San Francisco Bay Area cities that has resulted in 88 arrests, law enforcement said Monday. The operation is being led by police departments in the cities of San Mateo, Daly City and San Bruno, all suburbs located just south of San Francisco. Jerami Surratt, a spokesperson for the San Mateo Police Department, told SFGATE on Tuesday that the...
Who are these San Francisco Giants? A month into the 2024 season and it feels impossible to come up with a true answer to this question. At the end of April, the Giants sit at one game under .500, firmly in the mix for one of the National League wild card spots while not losing complete sight of the Dodgers in their own division. The consternation that seemed to consume the fan base at the beginning of the year, especially around the time of the sweep in LA, has dissipated some. No, the Giants...