SF News Day Around the Bay: Parking Near Oracle Is Going For Over $100 Parking near the ballpark is going for $120 tonight, the family member in the Richmond Police chief story is her daughter, and activists in Oakland were protesting the media's bias toward reporting missing white women stories.
SF News Marin County Becomes First In California to Have 'Moderate' COVID Transmission In CDC Framework Marin County just became the first in the Bay Area and in the state to enter the yellow or "moderate" tier of COVID transmission, setting it up to potentially be the first county in the Bay Area to reach the new regional criteria for dropping the indoor mask mandate.
SF News BART Joins Other Transit Agencies In Requiring Employees to Be Vaccinated BART's board announced Thursday that the agency is instituting a vaccine mandate for all BART employees, saying they must be fully vaccinated by December 13 or risk losing their employment.
SF News Woman In Her 30s Killed In Late-Night Hit-and-Run Near City Hall A woman was killed early Thursday morning when she was struck by an SUV in the Civic Center area, and the suspect vehicle fled the scene.
SF News Second Consecutive La Niña Winter Looms — Still Anyone's Guess If It Will Be a Repeat Dryspell For NorCal Two La Niña winters in a row is probably not great for this drought we're in — when a really wet and relentless El Niño season is what we need right now. But let's just hope for average or slightly above average rainfall, unlike last winter.
SF News Rattlesnake Den Underneath North Bay Home Yields 92 Snakes, and Counting A Sonoma County snake-removal guy — whose nonprofit removes rattlesnakes from private property and releases them elsewhere in the wild or on properties where rodent control is needed — says he recently went under a house and found 92 snakes in a matter of hours.
SF News Richmond Police Chief Bisa French Goes On Leave Over Family Drama, Claims of Violence The chief of police in Richmond is on administrative leave, and so is her husband who's a sergeant in the Oakland Police Department, amid what the department is referring to as a "family situation."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Man Says Embarcadero Car Burglars Shot At Him A man who shouted at and took pictures of some car burglars on the Embarcadero says they shot at him, London Breed pushes back on Walgreens, and Facebook says it's adding harassment protections to its policies for public figures and journalists.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rains Could Finally Be Coming Next Week PG&E has downgraded the scope of its next round of power shutoffs, there was another backyard mountain lion sighting in San Mateo, and meteorologists are watching a big storm over the Pacific that could bring up to two inches of rain here starting next week.
SF News Sacramento Legislators Are Holding Up the High-Speed Rail Project... Again California's beleaguered high-speed rail project hasn't been abandoned yet, but its ballooning costs and ever-extending timeline are enough to make anyone wonder if any of us will be alive to see this thing up and running.
SF News East Bay Pedophile Says He Paid $55K For Encounter With 10-Year-Old; Authorities Have Not Charged Trafficker A two-year-old story involving an Oakland oral surgeon who pleaded guilty to child pornography and attempted child sex trafficking charges has an update, and it involves a group of Bay Area suspects with whom he allegedly negotiated the use of children for his sexual pleasure.
Business & Tech Why Are Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Constantly Hitting the Same Dead End On 15th Avenue? Neighbors on one street in San Francisco's Richmond District seem to be witnessing the training of robot cars in the art of the three-point turn — over, and over, and over again.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Original Joe's Owners to Open New Location In the Marina, Plus a Mexican Restaurant In West Portal A new location of Little Original Joe's is headed for Chestnut Street in the Marina, and the family behind the local restaurant empire is expanding into Mexican cuisine with Elena's, a new restaurant in West Portal.
Bay Area Sports Dodgers Force Game 5 at Oracle Park — Thursday's Gonna Be Nuts In SF It's being called the biggest game in the history of the 120-year-old rivalry between the Giants and the Dodgers, and it will be happening in San Francisco, under the lights at Oracle Park, in the hopefully waning days of a pandemic on Thursday night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wildfire Destroys Delta RV Park A wildfire tore through an RV park in Isleton Tuesday and destroyed 21 homes, three people were shot in the Tenderloin Tuesday night, and William Shatner just became the oldest person ever shot into space.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five SF Walgreens Closing, Company Blames Shoplifting A vegetation fire in Hillsborough was quickly contained today, Walgreens announced it's closing five more SF stores due to ongoing "retail crime," and the water level at Lake Tahoe has gotten disturbingly low.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Fancy Japanese-Inspired Cocktail Spot Iris Debuts Thursday on Upper Polk In the former La Folie Lounge space at 2310 Polk Street, the neighborhood is getting a new high-end cocktail spot this week — the sister bar to Nisei, the Japanese tasting-menu restaurant from chef David Yoshimura that debuted in the La Folie space in August.
Arts & Entertainment Lead Singer of Bay Area Band Smash Mouth, Steve Harwell, Says He's Retiring Following Chaotic Show That Went Viral Smash Mouth, which last made headlines here and elsewhere for performing in the middle of a pandemic at the August 2020 Sturgis motorcycle rally/super-spreader event, no longer has a lead singer.
Bay Area Sports Raiders Coach Resigns After Emails Surface Showing He's a Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Prick There are still Raiders fans in the Bay Area even if they are just the long-distance supporters of a Las Vegas team now. And so it remains local news that the Raiders head coach has been shown to be a gross human being.
SF News South Bay 'Cool Mom' Accused of Throwing Very Boozy Parties For Teen Son and His Friends Faces 39 Criminal Charges A Los Gatos woman of means is accused of hosting secret parties with dozens of teenagers present throughout the last year, and pushing them to drink excessively and have sex with each other.
SF News Newell Fire In Napa County, Possibly Caused By Arson, Reaches 132 Acres The Newell Fire, which began as a quickly moving grass fire Monday evening in American Canyon and was soon threatening homes and American Canyon High School, is 60% contained and only reached 132 acres as of Tuesday morning.
Bay Area Sports Giants Take Game 3 With 1 Run From Longoria, Could Clinch Pennant Spot Tonight The San Francisco Giants faced off against the Dodgers Monday in a near flawless night for both teams' defense, and one home run by Evan Longoria was all it took to hold off the Dodgers and head for a potentially decisive Game 4 on Tuesday in L.A.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Millennium Tower Undergoes Important Soil Test PG&E is warning of more wind and more power shutoffs later this week, Millennium Tower is undergoing a key test to the effects of the ongoing sinking fix, and the smoldering Caldor Fire is still putting off a fair bit of smoke despite being almost entirely contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2,191-lb Pumpkin Takes Top Prize at Half Moon Bay Weigh-Off A person was struck in the head by an arriving BART train in West Oakland and is apparently still alive, a winner was declared this morning at the annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and Elon Musk trolled Jeff Bezos on Twitter about being richer than him.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Flour + Water's New Pasta Restaurant Penny Roma Opens for Business The previously announced new incarnation of the Central Kitchen space from the Flour + Water Restaurant Group, a casual pasta restaurant called Penny Roma, makes its debut Monday after a brief remodel.
