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.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Super Bowl Watch Party Planned at East Bay Sports Bar Redwood City law enforcement is objecting to a sexual predator being placed there, a clinic in San Pablo has been giving out "extra" vaccine doses to people who hang out outside, and a large East Bay sports bar is doing a Super Bowl party in a tent.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Cases of COVID UK Variant at UC Berkeley A man killed in a Tuesday morning shooting in the Bayview has been ID'd, Oakland police are seeking a suspect in three assaults in the city's Chinatown, and Biden already has a higher approval rating than Trump ever had by about 15 points.
Arts & Entertainment Shotgun Players Announces 30th Anniversary Season, Including the Tony-Winning 'Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812' Berkeley's Shotgun Players is alive and well, and they're planning an ambitious 30th anniversary season that kicks off with four shows meant to bridge the transition between streaming-only and in-person theater.
SF News Eight-Car Crash Near Lake Merced Leaves One Dead, Five Injured A Thursday morning collision involving eight vehicles in the southwestern section of San Francisco has claimed the life of one pedestrian, a man in his 20s.
SF News Bay Area Remains In a Drought Following Storms, Likely Will Not Reach Seasonal Average for Rainfall Unless the region gets walloped by a parade of crazy rainstorms in the next month or two, Northern California isn't likely to make up for the deficit of precipitation that our dry November, December and early January left us with.
SF Politics New Election Data for SF Shows Pockets of Trump Voters In Chinatown, the Tenderloin, the Marina, and the Avenues Of course people all over the country like Donald Trump for a variety of misguided and ignorant reasons. But it's bizarre to know that in multiple corners of San Francisco, not only did Trump pick up new voters between 2016 and 2020, there were hundreds of SF residents who voted for him.
SF News Two People Injured Overnight In Excelsior District House Fire A two-alarm fire that started just before midnight Wednesday night tore through a duplex on Naples Street in San Francisco's Excelsior District, leaving two residents with minor injuries.
