SF News Meet SOON: The SF-Only Dating App Startup That Wants You to Meet Your Matches In Person ASAP The app, with 6,000 users in the past four months, has pictures and prompts like other dating apps — but the first messages after matching are invites to meet in-person.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Pride Parade Draws a Crowd of Hundreds of Thousands The pride parade took an extra weight this year amid rising anti-LGBT legislation; the Dyke March also continued its historic tradition of taking to the streets; and Petaluma is the home of the newly-crowned world's ugliest dog.
SF News BART’s Answer to Its Financial Woes Is Putting More Police on Trains and Giving Officers Major Raises A new agreement for BART police officers gives them substantial pay bumps of 20% and mandates at least half of the transit police department's officers patrol trains, amid the transit system's fiscal deficit.
SF News Past Warning About Construction of Titanic-Bound Submersible Haunts Alameda Engineer in Wake of Implosion Bay Area deep sea engineer Liz Taylor said she warned OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush years ago against using carbon fiber in the Titan submersible, which imploded and killed five in the deep ocean pressure.
SF News Saturday Links: 20th Annual Trans March Friday Night Kicks Off SF Pride Weekend Hundreds of participants gathered for the Trans March, where organizers honored Banko Brown; BART's ridership has the lowest return of any major mass transit system in the U.S.; and the National Women's Soccer League team coming to the Bay in 2024 doesn't know what city it's going to yet.
SF News Day Around the Bay: $104K Annual Income Now Considered 'Low-Income' for Single People in 3 Bay Area Counties 250 queer couples got married at SF City Hall on Friday to celebrate Pride weekend; State data says anyone living alone in SF, San Mateo, and Marin counties is low-income with $104K salaries; and a goat herder found human remains in the hills near the Oakland Zoo.
SF News Rare Corpse Flower Set to Bloom at San Francisco Conservatory in Next Two Weeks One of the Conservatory's Corpse flowers, colloquially called Scarlet but scientifically known as Amorphophallus titanium, could bloom for a mere two to three days in the next few weeks, if we're lucky.
SF News Pod of Orcas Attacks Palo Alto Family's Sailboat Off the Coast of Southern Spain, Stranding Family Asea The Currier family's Mediteranean trip was cut short when their boat was rammed by the orcas in an increasingly common and characteristic that lasted only four minutes but broke its rudder.
SF News Sunday Links: 4.4-M Earthquake Shakes Mendocino County Saturday Night The earthquake around 9 p.m. Saturday night caused no injuries; Police arrested 11 people for shoplifting over 125 items in a Milipitas mall; and a man was attacked with a pickax in San Carlos.
SF News 103-Acre Snell Fire in Napa Now 80% Contained, Cal Fire Confirms [Updated] The vegetation fire is just southeast of Middletown in Napa County, but forward progress has been stopped and there are no reported injuries or damage.
SF News From 'Beach Bummers' to 'Poo-cifica,' California Coast Struggles with High Levels of Sewage After Winter Storms A new report shows how the winter's storms caused sewage overflows that have polluted the state's beaches, with five of its dirtiest beaches located in San Mateo County.
SF News Saturday Links: Hateful Anti-LGBT Protesters Try to Spoil Pride Night at Giants-Dodgers Game in LA It's not clear if the demonstrators were against the Pride Night or the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence who were invited to the game; almost all of the Capp Street barriers have been destroyed; and there's a Juneteenth festival happening in the Fillmore District today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sriracha Shortage Is Rocking the Bay Area A man's death at an Oakland encampment from injuries from a porta potty fire is being investigated as a homicide; Señor Sisig says desperate customers are taking its Sriracha; and a new natural wine bar called Bar Gemini is opening in the Mission.
SF News Three Injured In Shooting Outside Balboa Park Nightclub The day after a shooting injured nine people at a block party in the Mission District, another shooting occurred outside a nightclub in the Balboa Park neighborhood that left two men and one woman hospitalized.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco Celebrated Its First Official Juneteenth Parade The first-ever downtown SF parade had dancers, a marching band, cowboys, and low-riders; Anchor Brewing is cutting national distribution to focus only on selling in California; and a Novato man whose dad was a victim of the Unabomber speaks.
SF News Details Emerge in Friday Night Mass Shooting in the Mission: Suspect Named Following Friday night's shooting in the Mission District that wounded nine, one victim is still in critical condition, but SFPD named a suspect who has other outstanding warrants for firearms and homicide and vowed to increase police in the neighborhood.
SF News Ted Kaczynski, AKA the 'Unabomber' and Former UC Berkeley Professor, Dies in Prison at 81 The Unabomber sent fatal homemade bombs to universities, airports, and computer stores around the U.S. from a rural Montana shack that he moved to after a stint as a UC Berkeley math professor who became disillusioned with modern society.
SF News Saturday Links: SF Public Defender and Taxpayers Granted Right to Sue Over COVID Courtroom Closures A state appeals court gave the go-ahead to the SF public defender to sue over excess wait times for trials for criminal defendants; A San Jose groom tragically died on his dream Hawaii honeymoon; and the Millenium Tower is leaning even more than before.
SF News Shooting at Block Party in the Mission District Friday Night Leaves 9 People Injured SFPD says that the shooting, which happened 9 p.m. Friday at an anniversary party for local store Dying Breed, was a “targeted and isolated” incident, but no arrests have been made yet.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Child Sex Predator Sting Results in Arrest of 7 Men Contra Costa County police arrested seven men who were soliciting sex from children under 14 online; Peet's Coffee says it's shuttering its Oakland warehouse, where an employee was killed by a roof collapse in March; and Caltrans
SF News Sea Otter Reintroduction Plan Gains Momentum in Bay Area Efforts to repopulate the Bay with sea otters and help the coastal kelp forest gain support in Sonoma County, although local fishers and sharks could stand in the way.
SF News Sunday Links: State Farm to Stop Insuring Property In CA Due to Wildfire Risks and High Costs The types of stolen cars in SF are changing; State Farm will no longer insure new California homes due to wildfire exposure and construction prices; and the Malibu Sniper who shot at park vistiors has been convicted.
SF News Alameda County DA’s New Accountability Unit Files Criminal Charges Against Three Law Enforcement Officers The separate charges range from falsifying records in relation with a suicide at Santa Rita Jail to oral copulation with a minor.
SF News A BART Custodian Was Wounded By Someone at 24th St. Mission Station Who Was Causing a “Disturbance” An individual within a disruptive group somehow cut the custodian while on the escalators with a smallish knife like a pocketknife, agency spokespeople said.
SF News Body Cam Footage Released of Fatal Police Shooting of SF Burglary Suspect District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is set to conduct an investigation into the “legality of the shooting," setting up another political fight over charging law enforcement in a fatal shooting.
