SF News Omicron Has Killed 12% More Bay Area Residents Per Week Than Delta Here in the highly vaccinated Bay Area, the infectiousness of the variant still managed to take a bigger toll than the more severe Delta variant did last summer and fall.
SF News Arrest Made In Last Week's Fatal Stabbing on Potrero Avenue A suspect has been arrested in connection with last Monday's fatal stabbing on Potrero Avenue that took the life of a 27-year-old man.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Bay Area's Own Eileen Gu Takes Olympic Gold The 63-year-old woman killed by a San Jose garbage truck has been identified, California's COVID test-positivity rate just dipped below pre-Xmas levels, and SF teen Eileen Gu took home Olympic gold in the women's big air ski-jump.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Is Again Lifting Its Mask Mandate Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the statewide mask mandate for indoor settings is lifting again on Feb. 15, a right-wing pundit scaled a fence to get into SF's Tenderloin Linkage Center, and a rescue happened Monday at Muir Beach with one person still missing.
SF Politics SF's First Excessive-Force Trial Against a Police Officer Kicks Off Under Cloud of Controversy The trial of San Francisco Police Officer Terrance Stangel, the first involving an on-duty SF cop in which District Attorney Chesa Boudin has brought charges of excessive force and the first known trial of its kind in the city, began on Monday morning.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two New Bagel Shops That Began as Pop-Ups Arrive Shortly In SF Two new bagel purveyors — Schlok's Bagels and Midnite Bagel — are opening brick-and-mortar shops at long last in San Francisco, adding to the growing and increasingly well respected West Coast bagel pantheon.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Woods Beer & Wine Co. to Reopen In New Digs On Treasure Island, In Historic Naval Administration Building The popular Woods Island Club will be getting a new, slightly different incarnation this spring — and possibly as early as late February — in the iconic Administration Building on Treasure Island.
SF News One Dead, Five Skaters Rescued When Ice Gives Way on Semi-Frozen Reservoir Near Truckee A group of eight ice skaters ventured onto a not-so-frozen reservoir in the Sierra on Saturday, and the day ended in tragedy.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFPD Seeks Triple Bank Robbery Suspect The same suspect is believed to have committed three bank robberies in SF on Saturday, Woodside has been shamed into reversing its mountain lion habitat declaration, and 300 people took part in a Benicia sideshow on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment 'Firefall' Returns to Yosemite Next Week, and Some Park Areas Will Be Closed Due to Traffic Problems The very popular and very Instagram-worthy "firefall" phenomenon is expected to return to Horsetail Fall in Yosemite National Park this month — and its popularity has led to parts of the park needing to be closed to vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
Business & Tech Meta Already Has a Sexual Harassment Problem In the Metaverse In a development that's surprising to absolutely no one, Facebook/Meta is already having to address groping and sexual inappropriateness in the Metaverse, even though there is no real Metaverse yet — there's just a beta version of a very early stab at it.
SF News Arrest Made and Details of Video Emerge In Assault on 49ers Fan Daniel Luna at SoFi Stadium A suspect was arrested in connection with the assault on Oakland chef Daniel Luna outside the Rams' stadium in Inglewood on Sunday during the NFC Championship game, which has put Luna in a medically induced coma.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bail Denied For Los Gatos 'Cool Mom' Los Gatos "cool mom" Shannon O'Connor had her bail motion denied, Santa Clara County jails need an extra $1.5 million to cover rising food costs, and a second lawsuit has been filed in the death of Mario Gonzalez at the hands of Alameda police.
SF News Mystery COVID 'Lineages' Found In Viral Fragments In Wastewater In California and New York Not that the pandemic-anxious need anything to add to their arsenal of anxiety sources, but the New York Times has a story today about an ongoing mystery happening in wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 that researchers can't pin down.
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Says SFPD Withdrawl From Investigation Agreement Is Political, Made Under Pressure From Police Union Embattled District Attorney Chesa Boudin continues to push back against his critics and those who want him recalled in an election this spring, and this week he's having to engage in a war of words with the police chief.
SF News Fire Hits Taqueria Los Coyotes Building in the Mission, Displaces 22 People A fire tore through the three-story 16th Street building that is home to Taqueria Los Coyotes just after midnight Wednesday night, injuring at least two people and displacing 22 residents.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Tesla Has Yet Another Massive Recall The Washington state trooper who publicly quit over vaccine mandates has died of COVID, Tesla is doing yet another massive recall over a seatbelt chime, and Rudy Giuliani went on 'The Masked Singer'.
SF News Right-Wing Nutjob Couple Who Painted Over BLM Mural In Martinez Arrested For Burglary, Meth Possession Well well well. A couple hailed as heroes by Tucker Carlson for their brave work expressing the fears of ignorant white people back in 2020 has just been arrested for allegedly burglarizing a dead man's home and possessing meth.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Meta Stock Price Tumbles Because of Metaverse Spending Facebook/Meta's share price took a dive in after-hours trading after a rare decline in profits due to metaverse spending, the SFPD is withdrawing from a key agreement with Chesa Boudin's office, and the fire near Big Sur is all contained.
Arts & Entertainment SF Drag Queens Heklina and Pippi Lovestocking Make 'Court' Appearance On 'Judge Steve Harvey' Have you seen this new, decidedly non-legit version of People's Court that ABC is airing with Steve Harvey pretend-mediating real-life disagreements and handing people money? Well, a couple of local drag queens got themselves on the show to pretend-fight over some dresses.
Business & Tech Slack Lets Go Of Its Entire Office Space at 45 Fremont Three Years After Leasing It Slack, the workplace messaging tool that allows one never to have to physically be in the workplace but also allows one to never actually stop working, is giving up its physical workplace in SoMa.
SF News BART Trains to SFO Briefly Halted After Tree Falls Onto Tracks Amid Gusty Winds It's a windy day all over the Bay, and winds took out a tree next to the BART tracks south of San Francisco, leading to a service interruption in the direction of SFO and Millbrae.
SF News Atherton and Hillsborough Mansions Hit With 'Burglary Tourism' By Chilean Gangs Out of L.A. Police say the MO of the thieves matches what's been seen in Southern California and elsewhere, where organized groups of Chileans have been methodically breaking into the homes of the wealthy.
SF News USF Announces Plans to Acquire and Merge With the Financially Troubled San Francisco Art Institute After several years of turmoil at the financially strapped San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the University of San Francisco (USF) announced Tuesday that it has plans to acquire and merge with SFAI, bringing the art institute's degree programs under the USF umbrella.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Oakland City Council Approves Oscar Grant Day The Oakland City Council just made Feb. 27 Oscar Grant Day, PG&E just paid $1 billion more into its fire victim fund, and Stanford University says COVID infections are coming down on campus.
