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ChargePoint Has Cut Roughly 10% of Its Workforce Twice in Six Months, Filings Show

The Campbell-based EV charging company executed two separate ~10% reductions — one in March, one in July — generating a…

TechAugust 3, 2026

Blackstone Puts 686‑Room SoMa Hyatt on the Market, Weeks After Acquiring Another SF Hyatt

Blackstone is reportedly shopping San Francisco's 686-room Hyatt Regency Downtown SOMA, a move that comes weeks after a…

TechAugust 3, 2026

The Giants Continue to Sell: Heliot Ramos to the Yankees and the Rebuild Continues

The San Francisco Giants have signaled a full commitment to their rebuilding efforts by reportedly trading outfielder…

SportsAugust 3, 2026

The Firebells Ring: Kelsie Whitmore, a Springfield Cornfield, and the First Women's Pro Baseball Since 1954

San Francisco has a professional baseball team named for the woman who chased fire engines up Telegraph Hill, and this…

SportsAugust 3, 2026

Two Arms for a Batting Champ: Scouting What the Giants Actually Bought

San Francisco traded a three-time batting champion at the deadline and the story wrote itself as loss — Buster Posey's…

SportsAugust 3, 2026

Another Planet Sues Its Castro Theatre Contractor Again — This Time Over the Contractor's Website

Another Planet Entertainment has filed a second suit against Alarcon Bohm, the contractor on the Castro Theatre's $41M…

TechAugust 3, 2026

A Stacked August for Bay Area Author Readings — and Most Are Free

From Téa Obreht in Corte Madera to Chang-Rae Lee in the Sunset, August brings a run of marquee bookstore readings…

EventsAugust 3, 2026

Unbeatable at Home, Mortal Everywhere Else: De La Salle and the Bay's Football Inheritance

De La Salle enters 2026 unbeaten against NorCal since 1991 and holder of 33 straight section titles, yet 0-for-8 in…

SportsAugust 3, 2026

The Least Reliable Word in a Tech Headline Is the Verb

Across a week of Bay Area tech stories — a "relaunch," a "shutdown," a "departure" — the verb in each headline is the…

TechAugust 3, 2026

A $3M Skyway Billboard Is a Cap‑Table Tell. One Leaseholder Is Public; One Hasn't Filed an S‑1.

The SF Standard reports top-tier 101 billboards now rent for $200,000-$250,000 a month.

TechAugust 3, 2026

Vallemar Station Closes After 30 Years in Pacifica's 1905 Railway Depot

Vallemar Station, a steak-and-prime-rib mainstay set inside a 1905 railway depot on Highway 1 in Pacifica, served its…

FoodAugust 3, 2026

Webb Owns Texas. Take the Giants at Even Money While Buster Sells Around Him.

Here's the tell in the number: a 47-65 team, on the road, in a hitter's box in Arlington, and the market makes it a…

SportsAugust 3, 2026

Atlanta Bought the Arm, Not the Record: The Braves' Buy‑Low on Tyler Mahle

Line not pulled — analysis only. There's nothing live to bet off this one; the whole slate went final hours ago and the…

SportsAugust 2, 2026

Buster Posey Learns to Subtract

On August 2, a day before the deadline, Buster Posey traded a rental starter having a bad year to a desperate team for…

SportsAugust 2, 2026

Friend's AI Pendant Returns at $249 With a Voice. The Cap Table Hasn't Moved.

Avi Schiffmann's AI companion Friend is back at $249 with a speaker and a $9.99/month memory fee.

TechAugust 2, 2026

On Potrero Hill, Nearly Two in Five Working Adults Now Work in Tech

Census data analyzed by the SF Chronicle puts Potrero Hill and Dogpatch at the top of the city for tech-worker density…

CultureAugust 2, 2026

The Richmond's Picture Machine, San Francisco's Oldest Tattoo Shop, Still Inks 50‑Year‑Old Flash

At 5124 Geary Boulevard, Picture Machine Tattoo — in business since 1976 and on the city's Legacy Business Registry…

CultureAugust 2, 2026

At the Main Library, Every Copy of the 'Odyssey' Is Already Checked Out

Christopher Nolan's film has driven a national run on Homer's Odyssey, and the San Francisco Public Library's catalog…

CultureAugust 2, 2026

Fifty Firefighters and Three Helicopter Drops Put Out a Half‑Acre Fire in Joaquin Miller Park

A vegetation fire in the wooded hills near the Chabot Space and Science Center burned about half an acre off the 10000…

CultureAugust 2, 2026

On Front Street, 18 Charli XCX Lookalikes and California's First Entertainment Zone

A Brat-themed block party closed a stretch of Front Street on July 31, complete with a Charli XCX lookalike contest.

CultureAugust 2, 2026

The Burrito Boys Are a Dynasty Now: El Farolito Wins Second NPSL Title in Three Years

El Farolito, the soccer team run out of a Mission District taqueria and staffed by cooks, construction workers and…

PoliticsAugust 2, 2026

On Ashby Avenue, a Black Church Trades Its Parking Lot for 50 Apartments It Keeps for a Century

St. Paul AME broke ground Thursday on St. Paul Terrace, a seven-story, 50-unit affordable building rising on the…

CultureAugust 2, 2026

‘Hazy Bear’: Guerneville’s 30th Lazy Bear Week Pushes Through Coastal Smoke

Smoke from the coastal Woodside Fire drifted up the Russian River into Guerneville during Lazy Bear Week's 30th…

CultureAugust 2, 2026

A Database Is Coming for California's School Janitors. Its Teachers Just Dodged One Again.

A California bill that would have let school districts check whether a teaching applicant had been reported to the…

PoliticsAugust 2, 2026