😂 That hand — and everything else — was so creepy!

Want to Speak to the Manager? At a New San Francisco Store, That’s A.I.

The product selection is very strange. The employee schedules keep getting messed up. Every day of operation has seen a financial loss.

Take a peek inside San Francisco’s Andon Market, billed as the first retail boutique run by artificial intelligence.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Happy 415 Day, San Francisco! The city was incorporated 176 years ago today.

Wrote a tribute to the Church of Total SF 🌁 🍿 ❤️

Home of soooo many epic San Francisco movie nights with @heatherknightsf.bsky.social

Happy 100th birthday Balboa Theater!

Gift link 🎁 ⬇️

www.sfchronicle.com/totalsf/arti...

Trump Seeks $152 Million to Begin to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison

Many last year dismissed Trump’s idea to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison. But his new budget plan includes $152 million to do just that.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/n...

Senators Seek Answers From Trump Administration About Airport Immigration Arrests

Scoop: California’s senators have launched an inquiry into T.S.A. officials tipping off ICE agents when undocumented immigrants with deportation orders are on on flights’ passenger lists. This is how a woman was recently detained at SFO.

With @haleaziz.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Think this is my fifth consecutive Opening Day at the Giants with @heatherknightsf.bsky.social?

Game was trash but our pregaming walk on the Embarcadero was better than ever. San Francisco was 🌁💯 today.

T.S.A. Tipped Off ICE Agents Before Arrests at San Francisco Airport

Did you see the viral video of a woman being handcuffed by ICE agents at SFO Sunday night?

They knew where to find her because TSA officials tipped them off under a new Trump administration program.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

She Killed a Family With Her Speeding Car. Is Probation Enough?

Horrifying case in SF, covered by @heatherknightsf.bsky.social.

Two years ago, an older driver killed a couple, their toddler and their baby as her vehicle sped through San Francisco. A judge has indicated that he intends to let her avoid prison, home detention and community service.

Gift article.

Driving 75 mph (three times the speed limit), killing a family of four, and potentially no jail time. A complete miscarriage of justice. Glad this story is getting national coverage, by @heatherknightsf.bsky.social in today's NYT:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

She Killed a Family With Her Speeding Car. Is Probation Enough? Two years ago, an older driver killed a couple, their toddler and their baby as her vehicle sped through San Francisco. A judge has indicated that he intends to let her avoid prison, home detention and community service.

In 2024, an older driver killed a couple, their toddler and their baby as her vehicle sped through San Francisco. A judge has indicated that he intends to let her avoid prison, home detention and community service. But residents ask, how should a driver be punished for killing four people?

The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART

“It seems insane that a place as flush with cash as this town can’t keep things like this that allow society to function.”

A tax measure in November could be live or die for BART.

via @heatherknightsf.bsky.social

The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART

Good @heatherknightsf.bsky.social and Soumya Karlamangla story about the dire situation for BART in SF: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART

The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART—BART’s struggles amount to a “post-Covid keyboard economy story,” said Ethan Elkind, director of the climate program at
@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social and an expert… www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u... @heatherknightsf.bsky.social @nytimes.com

The Bay Area Considers the Unthinkable: Life Without BART

What would the Bay Area be like without BART?

@heatherknightsf.bsky.social & Soumya Karlamangla @nytimes.com cover potential impacts & why the system struggles in the post-Covid economy, ahead of a potential ballot measure to save it in November:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

2 Survivors Describe the Terror and Tragedy of the Tahoe Avalanche The story of how nine skiers were killed, and six survived, in the deadliest avalanche in modern California history.

‘Avalanche!’: Survivors Recount the Tragedy at Perry’s Peak

Riveting story by my colleagues who interviewed two men who survived the Tahoe avalanche and rescued others. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Two Sisters Died in Tahoe Area Avalanche During Trek With Friends Families and friends of the women, many from the Bay Area, confirmed their identities. The women went on regular trips to the Tahoe region and were experienced skiers, the families said.

The families of six friends and mothers who were killed in a Sierra Nevada avalanche this week identified the victims on Thursday and said they were “devastated beyond words.”

Heated Rivalry and Marital Bliss: Two Wives Go Head to Head in a Scary Olympic Sport

Heated Rivalry and Marital Bliss: Two Wives Go Head to Head in a Scary Olympic Sport

By Heather Knight Photos: James Hill

One represents Belgium and the other Brazil in skeleton, in which the racer slides near-blind down an ice track at well over 80 miles per hr. Gift! @heatherknightsf.bsky.social

Vladyslav Heraskevych was disqualified from the Winter Olympics on Thursday over his plans to wear a helmet honoring Ukrainian athletes killed in the war with Russia. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

A Ukrainian skeleton racer was disqualified from the Olympics today over his helmet featuring photos of Ukrainian athletes who have died in the Russian invasion.

He and his father will speak at the Ukrainian consulate in Milan tonight.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

We updated the story after Mr. Heraskevych said he will wear the helmet in training Wednesday and competition Thursday and Friday, the directive be damned.

“I see the faces on this helmet, and I will not betray them.”

(👋 from the Winter Olympics in Cortina, Italy!)

Interesting nugget from Heather Knight's latest article on the Lurie approach.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...
@heatherknightsf.bsky.social

Candles and Driveways: San Francisco’s Mayor Focuses on the Little Things

“For a city known for its anything-goes ethos, for its embrace of letting your freak flag fly, the list of activities one could not legally do in San Francisco was remarkable.”

Had fun learning about strange city rules for this. No parking in your own driveway?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

From sea lions to coyotes, Kit Kat to Claude, and now the Pacific Heights mountain lion, it’s a zoo out there! My San Francisco animal coverage continues…

Videos Show Moments in Which Agents Killed a Man in Minneapolis Federal authorities said the slain man, Alex Pretti, had approached agents with a gun. But videos show Mr. Pretti was holding his phone, not a weapon, when they pulled him to the ground.

Videos verified by The New York Times show Alex Jeffrey Pretti, the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday, was holding a phone, not a gun, when the agents took him to the ground and shot him. In total, at least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds.

I was there this morning and it was a delightful, heartwarming respite from *gestures at everything else*

So sorry I missed the Claude memorial. Was coaching a basketball game.

But felt better knowing @heatherknightsf.bsky.social would absolutely crush this and our beloved city would represent.

RIP Claude 🐊🌁❤️

See You Later, Claude: San Francisco Mourns Its Beloved Alligator

“This city of misfits and originals recognized him as one of our own,” said @catherinestefani.bsky.social.

San Francisco turned out in force to pay tribute to Claude, the albino alligator who died last month.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

There is no writer better at deftly yet savagely allowing SF politicos to show themselves than @heatherknightsf.bsky.social at the moment.

San Francisco Is on the Rebound. What Happened to Its Ousted Mayor?

London Breed has kept a low profile since leaving the mayor’s office a year ago. Here’s what she has been up to — and what she thinks of the praise being heaped on her successor, Daniel Lurie.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...