SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein's Husband Said To Be Eyeing Ambassadorship SF likely will keep to stricter rules than the state allows when it advances to the "Orange" tier, a 59-year-old Asian man was assaulted on Market Street on Monday, and Feinstein's husband may be give her an out when it comes to leaving the Senate gracefully.
SF News Deplorable Teen Arrested In Attempted Carjacking and Assault on Senior Citizen at SF Safeway A 16-year-old San Leandro girl has been arrested and two other teen suspects are being sought in an attempted robbery and carjacking in San Francisco's Inner Richmond last week in which an elderly woman was injured and a good Samaritan intervened.
SF Politics SF Board of Supervisors Approves Four-Year Extension of Ferris Wheel, Rejecting Challenge Several supes expressed exasperation about the fact that they were spending so much time and energy on this. And in the end, they voted 6-5 to let the contract stand as-is, at four years, in what will be cast as a victory for fun.
SF News Mayor London Breed Gets Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Shot, Wants to Demonstrate That It's Safe SF Mayor London Breed went to a clinic in her home neighborhood, the Western Addition, to receive her COVID-19 vaccination today.
SF Politics Feinstein Says She's Not Retiring, But Newsom Says He'll Appoint a Black Woman to the Senate If She Does Senator Feinstein told the press Tuesday they were "making a mountain out of a molehill" after Newsom made some comments about replacing her with a Black woman if he had the chance.
SF News Bay Area Tenants and Landlords Can Now Apply for Grants to Cover Back Rent From 2020 A state application portal went live Monday for tenants and landlords seeking rental relief grants relating to pandemic hardship — part of a $2.6 billion federally funded aid program in California.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Oakland Robbery/Homicide of Elderly Asian Man A second man was arrested in connection with last week's robbery and death of 75-year-old Pak Ho in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Mateo Moving to 'Orange' Tier San Mateo County is likely to advance to the 'Orange' tier today, San Francisco has lowered the BMI threshold for vaccine eligibility, and fire crews put out a two-alarm blaze at a flooring store in San Leandro Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Brazilian' COVID Variant Confirmed in California The Board of Supervisors will be voting on whether to extend the Golden Gate Park Ferris wheel one year or four years, a suspect was arrested for fatally stabbing a dog in the Upper Haight, and Newsom is launching a campaign against the recall.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Popular Barbecue Chef Matt Horn Announces Pop-Up Preview of Burger Concept 'Matty's Old-Fashioned' Just six months after opening his highly anticipated, much-delayed West Oakland barbecue restaurant Horn Barbecue, chef Matt Horn is teasing a second restaurant concept focused on burgers.
SF News Someone Drove Their Car Into the Bay Near Marina Green San Francisco firefighters came to the rescue of an unfortunate driver Sunday night who drove their car off the seawall near Marina Green. It's unclear whether drugs or alcohol may have been involved in the incident, but luckily the water was pretty shallow right there.
SF News Uber Assault Suspect Malaysia King Was Arrested In Vegas for Bank Fraud; Uber Driver Thankful for GoFundMe Donations One of the two women now in police custody in connection with the highly publicized March 7 assault on an Uber driver in San Francisco was actually arrested for an alleged bank fraud scheme in Nevada in the days following the Uber incident.
Arts & Entertainment Alcatraz Reopens For Tours After Three-Month Closure Alcatraz Island reopened Monday morning for limited tours by reservation, after being closed since the statewide lockdown began in December, and after only being open for about three months in total since the pandemic began.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Native Ryan Coogler Makes History With Oscar Nomination for 'Judas and the Black Messiah' This year's Oscar nominations were announced early Monday morning, and after years of criticism over the awards' lack of diversity — and the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag campaign that began with the 2015 awards — the 2021 slate of nominees is more diverse than ever.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Rain and Hail On the Way The second suspect in the assault on an Uber driver last week has turned herself in, today is the day of expanded vaccine eligibility across CA, and more wintry weather is on the way.
SF News A Year Ago This Weekend, SF Bars Were Ordered Closed and Pandemic Panic-Shopping Began The first two weeks of March 2020 were very weird for just about everyone. And this weekend marks one year since SF shut down large bars and clubs, a few days before the whole city would shut down.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Introduces Legislation to Make SF Parklets Permanent SF Mayor London Breed announced proposed legislation Friday that will extend indefinitely the popular Shared Spaces program, allowing bars and restaurants across the city the keep the outdoor parklet spaces they've built and for new ones to be permitted as well.
SF News Entire Bay Area Enters Red Tier As State Announces New Status For Sonoma and Contra Costa County The last two local counties to leave the "Purple" tier for the "Red" one in the state's metrics for reopening, Contra Costa and Sonoma counties, were promoted on Friday, several days ahead of the weekly Tuesday schedule.
SF News UCSF Docs Discuss SF's Remarkably Low COVID Mortality Rate, and Whether the Vaccinated Should Fear Variants A panel of doctors at UCSF have been broadcasting their "Grand Rounds" since early in the pandemic, and looking back on the past year they say San Francisco has been a great success story.
SF News San Francisco Man Arrested for Assaulting Asian Woman At San Jose Caltrain Station A San Francisco man was arrested Wednesday for a hate crime and sexual assault, following an incident in which he allegedly hurled racial slurs at a young Asian woman and assaulted her in a pedestrian tunnel at San Jose's Diridon Station.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: City College Site Begins Giving Johnson & Johnson Shots The coyote that attacked multiple people (and children) in the Lamorinda area has been killed, there was a small fire at Tesla's Fremont factory Thursday, and the first Johnson & Johnson shots are being given in SF today at the City College site.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Don Ramon's Is Saved, For Now The woman implicated in that assault on an Uber driver last Sunday has been arrested in Las Vegas, Supervisor Ahsha Safai had his car broken into outside City Hall, and Cowgirl Creamery is closing its Ferry Building store after 18 years.
SF News 26-Year-Old Oakland Man Charged With Murder After Elderly Asian Victim Dies From Injuries Sustained In Assault An assault and robbery in Oakland's Adams Point neighborhood has become a murder case, after the 75-year-old Asian man who was attacked died from his injuries on Thursday.
Arts & Entertainment SoMa Nightclub Oasis Surpasses Fundraising Goal at Telethon With $270K Raised Oasis appears to be saved, after a 12-hour telethon last weekend that brought an entire community of drag queens to its SoMa stage, and raised over $268,000 in the process.
Business & Tech Watch a Timelapse Video of Those Three New Giant Cranes Go Up at the Port of Oakland Those three giant container cranes that arrived from China at the Port of Oakland in December were just finally raised in place Thursday morning, and there's video.
