SF News Breed and Colfax Hint at Further Health Orders But Are Shy on Specifics While they did not announce any further restrictions on activities and businesses in the city, they hinted that these would be coming tomorrow or later in the week.
SF News $20K Reward Offered for Help Finding Suspect In 2018 Double-Murder In East Palo Alto Police and an organization called Mothers Against Murder are offering a $20,000 reward for help capturing and convicting a suspect in a double-homicide that occurred in mid-October 2018 in an industrial park in East Palo Alto.
SF News SFMTA Considers Laying Off 22% of Its Drivers, Engineers & Maintenance Staff The San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority is potentially looking at laying off 1,000 to 1,200 of its staff in the next fiscal year, which would mean many Muni drivers and maintenance workers losing their jobs starting next summer.
SF News Second COVID Surge Takes Shape In CA Prisons Amid Revelations About Lax Mask-Wearing Among Staff There have now been over 3,300 new cases in California prisons in the last 14 days, and a new report suggests that mask-wearing and other safety protocols have been lax or non-existent at some prisons during the pandemic.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Study Finds Wildfire Smoke Impacts on Teens The COVID test-positivity rate among Latinx people in a recent testing drive in SF was 8%, SF supervisors are still looking to pass a smoking ban in apartment buildings, and two CHP officers are uninjured after being shot at in Oakland.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California to Get 300,000 Vaccine Doses in December A second stimulus package may still be coming, Dr. Scott Atlas has resigned from the White House and will slink back to the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and California will be receiving 300,000 doses of Pfizer's vaccine before year-end.
SF News Newsom: 'Red Flags Are Flying' With COVID Hospitalizations, Stricter Stay-at-Home Order Could Be Coming With 75 percent of ICU beds now occupied across the state and 72 percent occupied in the Bay Area, Governor Gavin Newsom warned of a stricter stay-at-home order possibly to come within days for the 51 "Purple" tier counties in California.
SF News SF Archbishop Continues Whining About COVID Restrictions On Worship, Says Legal Action Not Off the Table SF Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will not remain quiet about city and state public-health restrictions inhibiting him and the church from holding in-person services, as he insists upon being on the wrong side of history during a pandemic, for God's sake.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rapper Lil Yase Killed In Shooting Near East Dublin BART Station Bay Area rapper Lil Yase, who was known for his mixtapes and singles including "Get It In" and "No Diss," was shot and killed early Saturday near the East Dublin/Pleasanton BART station under mysterious circumstances.
SF News 25-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Killed In East Oakland Saturday Night A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in Saturday night shootings in East Oakland that took place within minutes of each other.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Golden Gate Park Ferris Wheel Shuts Down San Francisco added 521 COVID cases since Thanksgiving, the percentage of homes on the market in SF with reduced listings hits nine-year high, and the UC application deadline has been extended after a technical glitch.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Teen Artist Gets Phone Call From Kamala Harris After Portrait Goes Viral 14-year-old Tyler Gordon of San Jose painted a portrait of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and posted a time-lapse video of himself painting it on Twitter — asking for retweets in the hope of getting Harris's attention. And he got it!
SF News Four-Year-Old Girl Swept Out to Sea In High Surf at Marin County Beach A four-year-old girl was swept into the ocean by a large wave on Thanksgiving Day in West Marin and drowned.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Technical Glitch Causes Delivery Disaster for Good Eggs In San Francisco, As Turkeys Failed To Arrive For Thanksgiving San Francisco-based grocery delivery startup Good Eggs left an unknown number of customers high and dry with nothing to eat on Thanksgiving — forcing some on last-minute grocery runs and others ordering takeout and fuming on social media.
SF News Santa Clara County Begins Running Low on ICU Beds Amid COVID Surge Santa Clara County's ICU bed capacity was rapidly filling up this week amid a surge in COVID cases around the region.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Candelabra Tree Survives CZU Fires There's no rain in the forecast for the next week or two, an apartment fire displaced 17 in Fremont, and park rangers have reached the Candelabra Tree in Butano State Park in San Mateo County and say it is mostly unscathed from the recent CZU fires.
SF News Thanksgiving Links: UCSF Workers to Be Among First In Country to Get Pfizer Vaccine Glide Memorial Church's annual Thanksgiving meal is happening outdoors, UCSF is among seven CA hospitals first in line for the COVID vaccine, and the Golden Gate Bridge parking lots are closed through the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Stabbing Suspect Had Been Deported Three Times Homeless San Jose murder suspect Fernando Jesus Lopez was reportedly deported three times, BART has reached an agreement with its unions, and ne'er-do-wells are shooting Bernal outdoor diners with paintballs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Own Mary Risley Would Like to Remind All Amateur Cooks: 'Just Put the Fu**ing Turkey In the Oven' It's been a few years since SFist has reposted local cooking school founder Mary Risley's delightful advice for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey — and it bears repeating in a year when a lot of people may be trying to do this for the first time at home and not with family.
Arts & Entertainment Take a Walking Tour of SF's Illuminated Art Installations This Holiday Season Illuminate SF, the organization that brought us The Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge, has a "Festival of Light" this holiday season that spans many corners of the city — and it's the perfect excuse for a pandemic-friendly urban hike after dark.
SF News As COVID Surge Hits Bay Area Hospitals, Health Officials Brace for the Worst Several weeks after public health officials around the Bay began sounding alarm bells about upticks in case numbers, the resulting uptick in cases requiring hospitalization is now happening in force at hospitals around the region.
Business & Tech Salesforce May Be Buying Slack, and Slack's Stock Price Is Going Nuts San Francisco-based Salesforce is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire workplace messaging app Slack, in the latest of a flurry of year-end mergers and acquisitions.
SF News CHP Begins Holiday Crackdown on Unsafe Drivers California Highway Patrol officers will be out in force beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, pulling over speeders and unsafe drivers in the hope of preventing tragedies on the road.
SF News Uptick In Gang Violence on Both Sides of Bay Brings SF's Homicide Count to 45 San Francisco's homicide count has already surpassed last year's total of 41, hitting 45 as of last week with the fatal killings of Lamar Williams and Demaree Hampton in Hunters Point.
SF News Wednesday Morning What's Up: Muni Operator Dies of COVID Complications A Muni operator has died from COVID complications, the homeless man suspected in a fatal Sunday stabbing at a San Jose shelter had been jailed recently for domestic violence, and the remains of a missing woman were found in the Russian River.
