SF News SF School Board Votes to Permanently End Merit-Based Admissions at Lowell High, Citing Equity San Francisco stepped into a larger national debate about merit-based admissions to public schools late last year when a fight erupted over a proposal to temporarily suspend a merit-based policy the city's elite Lowell High School, and now the change has been made permanent.
SF News First California Cases of South African COVID Variant Found in Bay Area Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that two cases of the potentially vaccine-resistant South African variant of COVID-19 have been found in California — one Alameda County and one in Santa Clara County.
SF News Felon With Recent Arrests, Wearing Ankle Monitor, Arrested as Suspect In DoorDash Driver Carjacking/Kidnapping In yet another case of a San Francisco felon who was roaming the streets with cases pending against him reoffending in a dangerous and high-profile manner, 25-year-old Erlin Romero was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping DoorDash driver Jeffrey Fang's two children last Saturday.
SF News Chevron Spills 600 Gallons of Fuel Into SF Bay; Cleanup and Damage Assessment Underway The Chevron refinery in Richmond had some sort of rupture or accident on Tuesday afternoon at a wharf where fuel tankers dock that leaked around 600 gallons of "a petroleum-water mixture" into San Francisco Bay.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Charges Filed In Richmond Infant's Death The repair of a washed-out section of Highway 1 in Big Sur may take a very long time, four people were arrested following a shootout and alleged stolen-car incident in Fremont, and the Contra Costa County DA has filed murder charges in last week's death of an infant in Richmond.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oil Spill at Chevron's Richmond Refinery Leaking 5 Gal/Min Oil is currently leaking at Chevron's Long Wharf in Richmond, UC Berkeley students are occupying People's Park to protest a development there, and Salesforce made a bombshell announcement that could mean it will need far less office space in San Francisco in the near future.
SF Politics Contra Costa County DA Catches Heat From Business Owners Over Backyard Wedding She Hosted Last Summer Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is the latest elected official in California to face a public outcry for their seemingly hypocritical behavior regarding pandemic-related public health rules.
SF News SF to Begin Phase 1B of Vaccinations in Two Weeks; Only One CA County Changes to 'Red' Tier While there seems to be steady improvement both in the COVID hospitalization picture and in case counts both in the Bay Area and statewide, no local county improved its tier status for reopening this week.
SF News 'Below Market Rate' Housing Units In San Francisco Found to Be Above Market Rate Right Now With apartments going for bargain prices around San Francisco in what will likely be a short-term dip in the rental market, so-called below-market-rate (BMR) housing is tied to other metrics, and renters can find better deals in the open the market right now.
SF News COVID Outbreak Hits North Beach Catholic Church That Hosted Illegal Wedding A San Francisco church that violated state and local public health orders to host an indoor wedding ceremony with about 100 people last July — only to be caught in the act by city officials — is now the center of a COVID outbreak in its rectory.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Avalanche Deaths Hit Century Record San Francisco is still moving forward with its lawsuit against the school district, there were 14 avalanche deaths in the U.S. in just the first week of February, and the White House directly addressed recent attacks on Asian Americans in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Old Navy Is Moving Back In With Gap Inc. The suspect in the deadly assault on an 84-year-old SF man is being held without bail, a GoFundMe for the DoorDash driver whose kids were briefly abducted has raised $120K, and Old Navy is shuttering its Mission Bay offices to move in with parent company Gap.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
Arts & Entertainment 'Firefall' Phenomenon Expected to Return Friday in Yosemite, Last About 12 Days The annual, highly Instagrammable phenomenon known as the "firefall" that occurs at sunset in late February at Horsetail Fall is expected to begin again on February 12.
SF News Arrest Made In Assaults on Elderly Victims In Oakland's Chinatown A week after three Asian American seniors were brutally attacked on the streets of Oakland's Chinatown, police say they have arrested a person of interest whom they identified last week.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 793,000 Bay Area Residents Already Vaccinated; 307 ICU Beds Available Around Region 10.2% of Bay Area residents have gotten their first vaccine shot, and COVID hospitalizations continue trending downward both locally and statewide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Santa Clara County Sent Inspectors to Sports Bars on Super Bowl Sunday to Check COVID Compliance Lots of bars around the Bay Area had outdoor setups with tables for watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, some likely more safe than others. And in Santa Clara County, they had inspectors making surprise visits to enforce all the rules.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFPD Chief Calls On Carjacker-Kidnappers to Turn Themselves In A fire at an Oakland homeless encampment destroyed a nearby community center, actor Chris Pratt's Bay Area sheriff's deputy brother looks to be a far-right extremist, and a wrong-way driver caused a fatal crash on northbound 101 in Burlingame today.
SF News Brazen Highway Robbery Caught on Camera in SoMa A thief jumped out of a moving Honda on Friday to smash the rear window of a Prius just as it was getting on the I-80 onramp on Bryant Street, and made off with a backpack containing a drone and camera equipment.
SF News Oakland Woman Arrested for Fraudulently Claiming $4.5 Million In Pandemic Relief Funds An Oakland woman was arrested in Austin, Texas Friday morning and charged with bank fraud over an alleged con game in which she created shell companies with non-existent employees and fraudulently applied for Paycheck Protection funds.
SF News Recology Truck Catches Fire On 101 at Cesar Chavez, Creating Massive Backup A literal garbage fire stopped traffic in the Mission District Friday when a Recology garbage truck became engulfed in flames on the 101 overpass at Cesar Chavez Street.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Scott Wiener Introduces Bill Easing Liquor Laws Around Parklets, Shared Spaces (But Not To-Go Cocktails) A new bill introduced Friday aims to help all of that continue on a more permanent basis — but, sadly, it doesn't include the ongoing legalization of to-go and delivery cocktails, so we won't be turning into New Orleans just yet.
SF News 22-Year Department Vet LeRonne Armstrong Named New Oakland Police Chief After an almost year-long search process, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced Deputy Chief LeRonne Armstrong as the next chief of the Oakland Police Department.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Eight-Car Crash Near Lake Merced Was On Probation, Possibly Intoxicated, Driving Stolen Car, Arrested For Similar Crimes In December A man who's been charged with multiple crimes in connection with an eight-car crash Thursday morning near Lake Merced in San Francisco was on probation for grand theft, recently arrested for DUI, and was allegedly driving a car that was reported stolen out of San Jose.
SF News Richmond Couple Arrested On Suspicion of Murdering Five-Week-Old Infant A Richmond couple was arrested Thursday night following the death of an infant they brought to a local emergency room who was not breathing, and who showed clear signs of abuse.
