Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News Two Deaths Attributed to Storm Including Sonoma Toddler; 70,000 Still Without Power Wednesday's bomb cyclone turned out to be less impactful in terms of rainfall totals than the one we saw on Saturday, but forecasters were right about the wind-related dangers, and a downed tree has been blamed for at least one death in Sonoma County.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wind Gusts Recorded Last Night of 85mph and Higher A wind gust of 101 mph was recorded in Marin last night, the Russian River is likely to see worse flooding on Sunday than it will today, and Amazon is laying of 18,000 workers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Point Richmond and Niles Canyon Residents Evacuated Over Landslide Risks Alameda County officials strongly advised residents of Niles Canyon to evacuate Wednesday; 15 homes have been evacuated in Point Richmond due to a potential landslide occurring above them; and PG&E already had 25,000 customers without power at 4 p.m.
SF News Meteorologists: This Parade of Storms Is Coming From a 'Runaway Pacific Freight Train' and 'Wavy Jet Stream' A "roiling" Pacific Ocean being stirred up by a third-in-a-row La Nina cycle as well as climate change and other factors are making for some unstable and dramatic weather on the West Coast and elsewhere around the globe.
SF News Glass Falls Off Fox Plaza and Crashed Onto Street, Possibly Due to Wind At least one large pane of glass from Fox Plaza came crashing down to the street near Civic Center Wednesday morning in what appears to be the first wind-related hazard on San Francisco streets due to the current storm.
SF News Watsonville Evacuated, Guerneville Braces for Another Flood The majority of coastal California is at a significant risk of flooding today as a 'bomb cyclone' storm bears down, with some inland areas at risk as well, and officials in Watsonville are taking no chances and have issued mandatory evacuation orders.
SF News Rainy Humpday Headlines: The Line For Sandbags Has Been Very Long SF's Dept. of Public Works keeps running out of sandbags but people are lined up anyway, school is being canceled for tomorrow in some cities, and a COVID-positive inmate died in custody in Martinez.
SF News SF Sees Exact Same Number of Homicides In 2022 As Previous Year, While Burglaries Are Down According to the preliminary numbers from the SFPD, San Francisco looks to have had the exact same number of homicides in 2022 as in 2021 — a total of 55 — as of the end of the calendar year.
SF News Midweek 'Bomb Cyclone' May Break Rain Records Already Broken By Saturday's Storm Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are warning that the coming bomb cyclone looks to be even more brutal, windy, and wet than what we just experienced on Saturday. So, clear those storm drains and brace yourselves.
SF News Oakland Zoo Likely Closed For Weeks Due to Sinkhole Near Entrance With another onslaught of rain on the way that is likely to cause more of this type of damage across the region, the Oakland Zoo is facing some significant road-repair work before it can reopen to the public due to a sinkhole that formed after Saturday's storm.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Snowfall In Napa Causes Travel Woes On Hwy 29 Snow fell on part of Highway 29 in Calistoga last night and immobilized some cars; a sinkhole swallowed an SUV in San Mateo; and infectious disease experts are watching the growth of a new U.S.-borne variant of Omicron.
SF News Post-New Year's Weekend Headlines: Aaaand Here Comes More Rain More rain arrives today and then some heavier rain comes midweek; Oakland marked its first homicide of the year on Sunday; and 19 residents of a Castro Valley nursing home had to be evacuated due to flooding on Saturday.
SF News Bernal Hill Becomes One Big Mudslide As San Francisco Sees 173-Year-Old Rainfall Record Shattered You can see the rain pouring down outside in a steady, heavy way, and if you were thinking it seemed especially heavy, you would be correct. And if you live in Bernal Heights, the water is flowing pretty much all over.
SF News Victims Of Marin-Based Ponzi Scheme Given Go-Ahead to Sue Umpqua Bank For Its Alleged Involvement Portland-based Umpqua Bank may be the subject of a class-action lawsuit from jilted investors in a Ponzi-esque investment scheme masterminded by a now deceased Marin County real estate mogul.
SF News San Francisco Mother Accused of Killing Two Young Daughters Enters Not-Guilty Plea There was confusion after police released their initial statements about a double-murder last week that claimed the lives of two young children in Hunters Point about the woman they arrested for the crime. But it's been confirmed that she was the mother of the children.
SF News Colorado Man Charged With Hate Crime In San Ramon In-N-Out Incident San Ramon police made quick work of identifying and locating a suspect last weekend following a Christmas Eve viral-video hate-crime incident at an In-N-Out restaurant, and a similar incident targeting AAPI victims the next day.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: I-880 Shut Down In Oakland After Major Crash A multiple-injury crash involving an overturned big rig shut down all NB lanes of I-880 in Oakland this a.m., one person died in an Excelsior house fire last night, and the ice-skating rink at Union Square may be closed due to rain today and tomorrow.
SF News Asking Rents In SF Ticked Up This Year, But They're Still Well Below Pre-Pandemic Levels Renting an apartment in San Francisco remains slightly more affordable than it was three years ago, and a good bit cheaper than the high-water mark of 2015, but prices are on the rise.
SF News Remains of Two-Year-Old Boy Who Police Say Was Killed In Oakland Found In Napa Oakland police are investigating the possible murder of a toddler two days before Christmas, whose body was later found buried in a shallow grave in Napa County.
SF News Appellate Court Might Expand CEQA's Powers In Berkeley Case, and May Stymie People's Park Development Plan In a "draft tentative ruling," a California appellate court is siding with NIMBY activists in Berkeley who have been squabbling with the University of California over its growth plans, and a plan to build student housing at People's Park.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Pedestrian Dies In Apparent Hit-and-Run Near Fisherman's Wharf A pedestrian was killed Wednesday in a hit-and-run at Bay and Stockton streets; Oakland police are investigating the death of a toddler whose body was found in Napa; and BART is experiencing rain-related delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Suspects Arrested In 24th & Mission Shooting A 19-year-old and a 20-year-old have been arrested in connection with a fatal Dec. 18 shooting at 24th and Mission; a dramatic car chase ended with lanes closed on I-80 in Vallejo; and Muni has announced free service all night on New Year's Eve.
SF News More Rain Coming Tonight Through New Year's Eve; Free Sandbags Available In SF It's going to be a soggy New Year's weekend in the Bay Area, as a couple more storms line up to drench us some more — and waterlogged ground is likely going to create some hazards and nuisances in the coming days.
