SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Marin County Fire Likely Sparked By Lawnmower A lawnmower hitting a rock was likely the culprit in last week's vegetation fire in Lucas Valley, two teens were killed during a roadside party in Brentwood, and containment on the Caldor Fire has risen to 49%.
Arts & Entertainment Guns 'N' Roses Set Cut Off, Foo Fighters End On Time to Bring BottleRock 2021 to a Close The infamous Napa curfew left Guns 'N' Roses fans with a totally anti-climactic end to Saturday's set, as the plug got pulled in the middle of the band's encore, "Paradise City," featuring guest Dave Grohl.
SF News Evacuations Lifted In South Lake Tahoe As Winds Calm Down Evacuation orders in areas close to Lake Tahoe, including the city of South Lake Tahoe, were downgraded to warnings on Sunday, allowing thousands of residents to return home almost a week after being forced out by threatening flames.
SF News Labor Day Links: Oracle Park Concession Workers Vote to Strike Oracle Park workers have voted to strike but will be working today's Giants game, a new wildfire erupted Sunday in Auburn, and a horrific wrong-way crash killed one person Monday morning in Oakland near the Bay Bridge.
SF News Ghost Ship Building Landlords to Pay $12M to Victims' Families, and Declare Bankruptcy One of the last bits of legal fallout from the 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland appears to have reached a resolution, and families of some of the 36 victims are going to share a $12 million settlement from the owners of the property.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oracle Park Concession Workers Threaten Strike Over COVID Hazard Pay The Caldor Fire is now 29% contained and there is hope of keeping it away from Lake Tahoe, SF police made an arrest in an Aug. 17 murder on Larkin Street, and Oracle Park concession workers may strike over COVID hazard pay.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Spared Another Night From Caldor Fire Winds cooperated Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and firefighters continue to keep the Caldor Fire several miles away from Lake Tahoe, and outside of the city of South Lake Tahoe, but the flames continue advancing east toward the Nevada border.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Air Quality Advisory Hits the Bay The southeastern front of the Dixie Fire is now threatening the Highway 395 corridor, smoke from the Caldor Fire may impact the Bay Area's air quality again, and flash flooding in New York and New Jersey led to at least 14 deaths last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Facebook Gives $38M to Affordable Housing Projects The pictures coming from Tahoe area fire cameras are bleak, firefighters face another tense night in the Caldor Fire as it bears down on South Lake Tahoe, and Facebook just awarded $38 million to four Bay Area affordable housing projects.
SF News Union Square's Handlery Hotel Offers Discounted Room Rate for Caldor Fire Evacuees For any fire evacuees from South Lake Tahoe who'd like to spend a few days in San Francisco to take their minds off the wildfire bearing down on their town, the Handlery Union Square Hotel is offering rates of $75 per night.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Level Off In Bay Area, California The Delta variant surge appears to have crested — for now — in the Bay Area, and that can be seen in falling daily case numbers as well as hospitalizations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Japanese-Peruvian Restaurant Signs Lease for Rooftop of Former Macy's Men's Store In Union Square Chotto Matte, a high-end restaurant concept born in London that showcases the Nikkei cuisine of Peru — which is influenced by Japanese immigrants in the country several generations ago — is coming to San Francisco's Union Square next year.
SF News Millennium Tower May Be Sinking Faster Due to Digging That's Part of Effort to Stop It Sinking The effort to shore up the foundation of Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, which began in May, may be contributing to an accelerated rate of settlement that engineers are observing, causing alarm.
SF News Half-Off BART Fares Start Today, Lasting Through September Thinking that September 1st would be when it would be rolling out fuller, pre-pandemic levels of train service, BART announced a few months ago that it would be offering 50% off all fares for the month of September.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Caldor Fire Moves Closer to Heavenly The Caldor Fire grew to over 200,000 acres last night and is scorching the edges of South Lake Tahoe, Santa Clara County supervisors took a vote of no confidence in the sheriff, and jury selection continues in Elizabeth Holmes's trial.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bonnaroo Canceled Due to Flooding A young man gunned down in Oakland early Sunday has been identified, Newsom made an appearance in Oakland encouraging more vaccinations, and rains from Hurricane Ida have caused flooding in Tennessee that has prompted the cancellation of Bonnaroo.
SF News SFPD Now Offering $50K Reward for Killer of Bayview Teen Girl Last Month The case has apparently gone cold in the hunt for the shooter who killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her aunt while the family was sitting outside their new home last month, and the SFPD is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
SF News Marin Health Officer Addresses Report On School COVID Outbreak: 'Everyone Makes Mistakes' The report that the CDC released late last week pertaining to a May COVID outbreak at a Marin County school continues to have a ripple effect nationwide — showing how classrooms, even with windows open and kids masked, can be vulnerable to the Delta variant.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock to Be the Bay Area's First Big Test for Festival Safety During the Ongoing Pandemic Tens of thousands of football fans have crowded into Levi's Stadium in recent weeks for the first couple 49ers preseason games with no vaccine mandate, but BottleRock will be the region's first test of a non-seated, large-scale outdoor event.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Evacuation Causes Major Traffic Jam; Caldor Fire Advances Into Edge of Tahoe Basin The Caldor Fire continued its steady advance toward the Tahoe Basin on Monday amid a mass evacuation of South Lake Tahoe. But so far most of the flames have been held back by the granite outcroppings around Lower Echo Lake and Lake Aloha.
SF News Cargo Ship Anchored In San Francisco Bay Has 19 COVID-Positive Crew Members A cargo ship is quarantining in San Francisco Bay with a dozen COVID-positive crew members onboard, and six others who were feeling ill have been taken to San Francisco hospitals for medical treatment.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Unsanctioned Burning Man Has First Serious Accident A man was injured in a roll-over dune buggy incident at the "renegade" Burning Man that began Sunday, some evacuation warnings and orders have been lifted in the Dixie Fire, and demand for monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID are surging in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mendocino County Hospitals Filled With COVID Patients Some Democratic strategists are quietly saying we should vote for Faulconer on the recall ballot, Mendocino County hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, and a 43-year-old SF man has been arrested in a Friday assault on an Asian woman in Chinatown.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Announces Pop-Up Dinner Series With Chef Melissa Perello Ahead of Full Reopening While beloved Castro restaurant Frances still has not announced its official reopening date, chef Melissa Perello over the weekend announced a series of prix-fixe dinners at the restaurant with no set menu that she will be curating and cooking herself.
SF News CVS Is Putting Limit On Number of At-Home COVID Tests You Can Buy at Once Amid a nationwide run on at-home COVID tests and a shortage stemming from the tests' producers scaling back production a few months ago, CVS pharmacies are putting a limit on the number of test boxes customers can purchase at a time, online or in person.
