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Our beloved (for some), twinkling illuminated Bay Lights display on the Bay Bridge has been turned off since 2023, as after all, some of the lights started breaking right away because the original 2013 installation was only intended to last a couple of years. The weather and wind conditions high above the Bay proved treacherous, and the LEDs required more maintenance than anticipated.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- SKY7 is over a large fire caused by an explosion at a gas station in San Francisco's Mission District Monday afternoon. The gas station appears to be a Shell on 16th and Guerrero. We are hearing an underground tank may have exploded at the gas station Stay with ABC7 News for the latest details on this developing story. Copyright © 2025 KGO-TV. All Rights Reserved.

We saw this story going around Monday of a woman being very drunkenly obnoxious to staff members and fellow patrons at Hazie's, apparently after she had been asked to leave. The whole thing turns ugly, with what appears to be one staff member pulling a judo move on the woman before she exits the bar, and then a half dozen people getting involved including long-haired bartender Miguel Marchese, whose hair ends up getting involved in the melee.

Caltrain has enjoyed a 56 percent increase in ridership this year, earning it the title of the fastest-growing transit agency, according to the American Public Transportation Association. This, of course, corresponds with the rollout of more frequent schedules and its newly electrified service. From a Caltrain release: The increased ridership and satisfaction levels follow the launch of its new high-performance electric trains in September 2024 that offer a better experience for Caltrain riders and provide faster and more frequent service.

A child was reportedly run over by a vehicle on the street Sunday morning in the area between Hayes Valley and Alamo Square, and did not survive his injuries. The collision happened around 10:37 am Sunday, and the city's Department of Emergency Management sent out an alert to avoid the area of Hayes and Webster streets. A vehicle struck the child, police said, but no further information was shared about the accident.

Robert remembers cold windy days in the Mission when many of its trees were little more than promising twigs in the ground! Since, he fell in love with the opinionated poets, artists, and eccentrics who enlivened the Cafe La Boheme.

Best. In. The. World. Defensive end Clelin Ferrell used those four words in breaking down the 49ers' huddle at Thursday's practice, a message that fired up its playoff-pursuing audience. It was a pretty cool reminder for all of us to hear that from Cle, quarterback Brock Purdy said. What we do is hard and it's a challenge, but we love it and we're up for it. We've done this our whole life. We can't take this for granted. We're at the end of the season, NFL ball in December, this is an exciting time.

"I'm expected to tell you all why this is the worst city in the world," Sam Kriss, a writer from London, began. He stood at a lectern in the middle of the dark room. The sold-out audience - an uneven mix of techno-optimists and -pessimists, faux centrists and progressives - listened between sips of champagne.

Sometimes, Yohana Quiroz would ask her father - a skilled cobbler, who had been studying the craft since he was a child - why he repaired things for customers with such perfection and attention to detail. "This is the customer's favorite bag," Quiroz remembers him saying. "This is the customer's favorite shoe. This is their favorite jacket. I need to fix it."

Mayor Lurie offered homeless RV-dwellers $3,000-$7,000 to sell their RVs and move into supportive housing, and the Examiner has a profile of the first family who took him up on the offer. Not many others have taken the offer, though the Examiner reports that two families and two individuals total have sold their RVs and taken city-managed housing services. [Examiner]

A trip to the Westin St. Francis off Union Square always comes with a shot of nostalgia, an irresistible jolt of American mythology that covers more than 120 years. The storied walls hold pictures of visiting dignitaries like Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur, and, in a gloriously chaotic (and age-gap scandalous) photo from the 1960s, newly married Latin music sensations Xavier Cugat and Charo.

This is San Francisco's Cliff House, a beautiful Victorian building perched on a cliff overlooking the ocean, built in the late 1890s, it would stand for only ten years: Just a few short years after construction was completed, the house burned down in 1907: However, the house was rebuilt in a different style, and this is what it looks like today:

San Francisco has more than 34,000 employees, and sometimes some of them get fired. In most cases, the workers are under union contracts, and termination requires some sort of cause, some sort of a warning system, and some sort of due process: Your boss can't just call you into their office one day and say you're no longer needed. But a small percentage or those workers are called "exempt," which means they can be fired at will.

I want to at this point, extend my condolences both to the victim's family, who I know are in so much pain right now with this tragic loss of life, but also to the staff of San Francisco General Hospital, who I know are also suffering right now. We have to make sure as law enforcement that we do the utmost to protect everybody who works in health care and those who are trying to serve the people who need the most help in our city, each and every day, they come to work to take care of others, and it's our obligation to take care of them,

But H&M just confirmed that they have gotten their notice to vacate from the mall's new owners, and they'll be doing so in January. Presumably that means that the H&M Man and H&M Kids stores will be closed as well the mall directory shows them both as still open, among about two dozen stores that are still doing business there. But the Chronicle got a statement from H&M that suggests that they, perhaps like Japanese discount retailer Uniqlo, might be plotting a return to SF after closing their huge Powell Street store early in the pandemic. "We remain committed to our presence in the San Francisco Area and will continue to explore opportunities for the best store locations a guiding principle since our founding in 1947 as reflected in our recent opening at Stonestown Galleria on Nov. 20, 2025," the company said.