SF News New UCSF Parnassus Hospital Design Unveiled By Architects of deYoung Museum UCSF has released a new rendering for its proposed 15-story hospital addition at its revamped Parnassus campus, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, and it's quite pretty.
SF News Holiday Party In Larkspur Leads to 28 COVID Infections, Omicron Suspected A holiday party in Marin County ten days ago where all attendees were vaccinated led to an outbreak of at least 28 cases of COVID, and health officials believe the Omicron variant was to blame.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Mall Shooting Leads to Chaos, Looting A shooting at San Jose's Oakridge Mall led to chaos Monday but no victim has been located, Oakland police are forming a new policing district to combat violence, and the NHL is pausing the season from Wednesday to Sunday due to COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Omicron Already Represents 73% of U.S. Cases The CDC says Omicron is quickly overtaking Delta as the dominant variant in the U.S., a mall shooting in San Jose prompts shelter-in-place order, and jurors are still out in the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
SF News Omicron Community Spread Apparent In 3 Mission Cases; Restaurants In SF and Oakland Temporarily Close Out of Caution A likely deluge of new COVID cases is on the horizon for the Bay Area, due to the Omicron variant and despite widespread vaccination.
SF News 6.2M Earthquake Strikes Off Humboldt Coast, Felt In Parts of Bay Area A 6.2M earthquake struck at 12:10 p.m. PT, with an epicenter in the Pacific at a depth of 9.3 km, 38 km west of Petrolia, in Humboldt County. And shaking was felt in many parts of the Bay Area.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Showing No Signs of Omicron Slowdown A woman was fatally shot Sunday at an East Oakland homeless encampment, Omicron is not deterring holiday travelers through SFO, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker both have COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Late Night Fireworks For Metallica's 40th Anniversary & Matrix Premiere Confuse Many, Lead to 'Explosion' Reports on Social Media The second of two Metallica concerts at the Chase Center this weekend, in celebration of the band's 40th anniversary, ended with a series of fireworks blasting off that many in San Francisco could not see — but they and their dogs could hear them.
SF News Jailed Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Still Has Not Entered Plea, Will Spend Xmas In the Clink Accused, possibly pervy corrupter of teenagers/sexual assault enabler Shannon O'Connor has gotten a new attorney, and she has yet to enter a plea in the Santa Clara County case involving multiple alleged teen victims.
SF News Morning Power Outage Impacts Transit Center, Downtown Businesses A Friday morning power outage in the Financial District and SoMa was impacting multiple downtown businesses, as well as the Salesforce/Transbay Transit Center.
SF News 18-Year-Old Suspect Arrested For Fatal Shooting at Sunnyvale Airbnb House Party A suspect has been arrested in connection with the August 7 house party shooting at a rental house in Sunnyvale, where a raucous teen party attracted police attention even before the shooting occurred.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Elizabeth Holmes Case Goes to Jury The SF school board officially extended lottery-based admissions at Lowell High, Santa Clara County's health officer is warning of a "deluge" of Omicron cases, and the Elizabeth Holmes case gets handed to the jury today.
SF News Bail Reduced For Accused Caldor Fire Arsonists; Clue Emerges About Machine Gun We still don't know what the prosecution's theory is in the ignition of the Caldor Fire in August, but the father and son accused of starting it are now free on drastically reduced bail.
SF News SF Couple Tells Harrowing Tale of Coyote Attack That Almost Killed Their Dog A couple was walking their dog in the Inner Richmond last week when they say a pack of four coyotes emerged from shadows grabbed their 13-year-old terrier Roscoe.
SF News Police In Richmond Fatally Shoot Apparently Drunk Man Holding Airsoft-Style Handgun A man was fatally shot by San Pablo police Wednesday in North Richmond after he appeared to be playing with a handgun in a menacing fashion outside some businesses — but the gun turned out not to be real.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major Healthcare Conference In SF Canceled Closing arguments begin today in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, a brazen mugging happened Wednesday afternoon in Pacific Heights, and JP Morgan just canceled an in-person healthcare conference in SF in January.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Opens For SF/Sonoma Coast Before NYE Local Dungeness crab will again be available before New Year's, the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors has voted to limit residential development in an agricultural area, and the Senate has just confirmed two of Biden's appointees to the Ninth Circuit.
SF News Developer Unveils Plans For Downtown SF Tower That Will Almost Match Salesforce In Height What had been planned as an 818-foot tower has become an 1,066-foot tower according to newly unveiled project plans from developer Hines for a site behind the historic PG&E headquarters building in downtown SF.
SF News Tesla Employee Allegedly Shot Coworker In Parking Lot Following Argument A 29-year-old employee at Tesla's Fremont plant is in police custody after he allegedly shot and killed a coworker on Monday, in the factory parking lot.
SF News SF, Marin, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties Exempt From New State Mask Mandate San Francisco's rules that allow for no masks at gyms, workplaces, and places of worship get to stand, because we've all been so good up until now.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Highway 1 Closed Due to Big Sur Rockslides The SF School Board passed a balanced budget on Tuesday avoiding a state takeover, alleged retail thieves were busted in Vallejo, and a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur remains closed to traffic after multiple rockslides.
SF News It's Going to Cost $450K to Stop the Golden Gate Bridge From 'Singing' Whether you're charmed or perturbed by the loud hum coming from the Golden Gate Bridge on windy days, it's likely going to get fixed next year.
SF News Group of Mendocino Anti-Maskers Tries to Mob Stores In Protest of Mask Mandate California's renewed, holiday-season mask mandate for indoor public spaces is surely annoying people of many stripes in counties where they've gotten used to no masks again — not just the super Trump-y anti-maskers of yore. But there are still plenty of those!
SF News Santa Cruz Man Sentenced to 20 Years to Life for Murder of Ghost Ship Survivor Girlfriend A 30-year-old Santa Cruz man has been sentenced in the June killing of his former girlfriend — a crime to which he confessed before pleading not guilty, and then later confessed again and changed his plea.
