SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Kamala Harris Staffers Test Positive For COVID No new fire activity happened in the North or East Bay despite high winds last night, the CA Supreme Court is ordering a review of Scott Peterson's conviction, and Kamala has suspended campaign travel after two staffers get COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: House of Prime Rib Books Up Through December One of the SF Zoo's lemurs has gone missing (and maybe was abducted), SF's 180 playgrounds have reopened, and the House of Prime Rib reopens tomorrow and is already booked up through December.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Ferris Wheel Opens Next Week With 36 Fully Enclosed Gondolas The 150-foot-tall "Observation Wheel" that was erected earlier this year in celebration of the sesquicentennial of Golden Gate Park is going to begin taking passengers for 12-minute rides starting on Wednesday, October 21.
SF News SF School Board Members Suggest Racism Is at Play In Blowup Over Lottery Admissions for Lowell High A virtual school board committee meeting erupted into chaos Tuesday evening with passionate — and arguably racist — public comments reacting to a recent announcement about a proposed one-year shift away from merit-based admissions at SF's elite Lowell High School.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Is Restricting the Spread of an Inflammatory, Dubious Story About Hunter Biden Facebook claims it is restricting access to a New York Post story published Wednesday that suggests, via emails purportedly "obtained" by Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, some new untoward business involving Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian oil company he sat on the board of, Burisma.
SF News Overnight Shootings In SoMa and Tenderloin Leave Two Injured A young woman was shot and injured around 9:30 p.m. Tuesday near Hayes Valley in SoMa, and a 51-year-old man was shot multiple times in the Tenderloin after midnight.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Man Found Dead After Apparent Motorcycle Accident Near Panhandle A motorcyclist was found dead near SF's Panhandle, a candidate for mayor in Vallejo has a history of domestic violence convictions, and the longtime owner of Zazie is suffering major fire-evacuation and power-shutoff-related losses at her Calistoga restaurant Lovina.
SF News PG&E Gives County-by-County Timelines For Likely Shutoffs Wednesday A full schedule of public safety power shutoff (PSPS) duration estimates is now available for October 14 to 16, and PG&E says around 54,000 customers in 24 counties are likely to be affected.
SF News Day Around the Bay: There Will Be No 2020 Michelin Guide After All Amazon workers at the company's San Leandro warehouse want to unionize, the SFPD has made two arrests in a SoMa homicide from last week, and there will be no California Michelin Guide this year after all.
SF News Alameda County Moves to 'Orange' Tier But Will Not Open Indoor Dining Yet; Santa Clara County to Allow 25% Capacity Both Alameda and Santa Clara County moved into the state's "orange" tier status for pandemic reopening, joining San Francisco in the second-least severe group of counties with only "moderate" virus spread.
SF News Inside (Local Media) Baseball: SFist Joins Forces With Hoodline The local media landscape has gone through plenty of changes in the last two decades, but today we have some good news for readers and consumers of Bay Area news.
SF News Yet Another Red Flag Warning Officially Issued as Fire Danger Returns For North Bay, East Bay Hills and Valleys Warm, dry weather and offshore wind will make for beach weather in SF the next few days, but all kinds of potential terror elsewhere in the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Mission Spot Californios Relocates to Former Bar Agricole Space The airy SoMa space occupied by Bar Agricole for much of the last decade will be the new home of Californios — giving the Michelin-starred, Mexican-influenced restaurant from chef Val Cantu more space to breathe (in a pandemic) both indoors and out.
SF News Woman Dies After Car Plows Into Outdoor Dining Area In San Jose The story of a car that injured eight people when it drove into a restaurant's outdoor dining area on Sunday afternoon took a tragic turn Monday when one of the eight victims died from her injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Money Pours Into the 'No on I' Campaign Kindergarten enrollment is down across the Bay Area, firefighters put out a brush fire by an encampment in West Oakland, and real estate people are pouring millions into the campaign to defeat SF's Prop I.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Drag Queens Hit the Streets of SF to Get Out the Vote A Minnesota pumpkin grower won the annual Half Moon Bay pumpkin contest today with a 2,350-lb gourd, a multi-car collision backed up the westbound Bay Bridge, and what to expect from Tuesday's Apple event.
SF News 'We Can't Keep Living Like This': Dave Eggers Offers Firsthand Account of the Early Hours of the Glass Fire One of the Bay Area's most renowned writers, Dave Eggers, has offered up his own account of the Glass Fire for The New Yorker.
SF News Armed and Dangerous Suspect Being Sought After South Bay Homicide A Gilroy man who's considered armed and dangerous was on the loose Monday, and authorities believe he was responsible for the shooting death of a woman on Sunday night in Milpitas.
Arts & Entertainment Monterey Whale Watching Captain Sees First-Ever Triple Breach of Humpbacks Three humpback whales put on a tandem show in Monterey Bay on Sunday, performing an extremely rare triple breach that delighted whale-watchers out for a tour.
SF News Predicted Mid-Week High Winds Means More Likely Power Shutoffs for North Bay Higher temperatures and gusty offshore winds later this week have PG&E warning customers in the North Bay and elsewhere that there could be another PSPS (public safety power shutoff) in their future.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Details Emerge In Death of SF Firefighter Several people were injured by a car that drove into an outdoor dining area in San Jose, two more orphaned mountain lion cubs rescued in the Zogg Fire arrive at the Oakland Zoo, and the SFFD released details in the death of firefighter Jason Cortez.
Business & Tech City's First Latina-Owned Pot Dispensary Opens In Union Square A sleek new dispensary just debuted in Union Square Friday morning to an eager crowd of early customers, and it's the first in the city to be owned by a Latina woman.
SF News SF & Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Return to June Lows as Case Counts Stabilize There's been a lot of other horrors in the news lately. But in terms of COVID case counts, virus spread, and hospitalizations, it's been mostly good news in the Bay Area since mid-September.
SF News SF Firefighters Contain Blaze That Erupted at Bayview Homeless Encampment Next to Caltrain Tracks Smoke was rising from an encampment fire in San Francisco's Bayview District on Friday morning, after a fire erupted at what's being described as a "treehouse" that was built into a hillside beside the Caltrain tracks.
SF News Number of Properties For Sale In SF Nearing Two-Decade High; Condos and Single-Family Homes See Price Drops In the history of San Francisco real estate, the lows never drop too low or last too long. Will this time be different?
