SF News Union Square Homicide Has Link to Home Invasion Robbery In East Bay A 21-year-old man who was killed near Union Square last week was wanted in connection with a May home invasion robbery in Fremont — and police had been looking for him for months.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 30% Containment as Some Evacuation Orders Are Lifted Predicted high winds never materialized late last week or over the weekend, and firefighters were able to raise containment levels and tamp down the Glass Fire threat for much of Sonoma County. On the Napa side, Calistoga was able to breathe easy Sunday as the fire shifted east.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Family Of Oscar Grant Wants Second BART Officer Charged A UCSF doctor has called Trump's motorcade stunt outside the hospital on Sunday "massively irresponsible," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has now tested positive for COVID-19, and California just crossed the 4 million mark for acres burned this year.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Says Pandemic to Blame For Major Uptick In Homicides Oakland is on track to record more homicides this year than in any of the last five years, and the reason for the steep jump in gun violence is directly correlated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city's interim police chief.
SF Politics SF Public Health Director to Trump: Your Flagrant Disregard For Science Has Caught Up With You SF's Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax minced no words in reacting to President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, which was revealed late Thursday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 17-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Dopo Closes; Owners Say Government Failed Them Beloved Piedmont Avenue Italian spot Dopo will serve its last lasagna on Saturday, and the owners say that not enough has been done by federal, state, and local governments to prevent a mass die-off of restaurants.
SF News Firefighters Still Bracing For High Winds After Calm Night Fighting Glass Fire; Containment Reaches 6 Percent Forecasted gusty winds failed to materialize with the new Red Flag Warning Thursday night, allowing fire crews in the North Bay to beef up containment lines on the Glass Fire and prevent any further structure damage.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pelosi Hopes For 'Saner' Approach to Pandemic After Trumps Get COVID Nancy Pelosi says the Trumps' COVID infections are "sad" but were perhaps inevitable, firefighters are facing an unpredictable day with the Glass Fire, and a young man was found dead on a BART train in the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Ghirardelli Sign Returns After Restoration Facebook says it will now ban ads that undermine the election in any way, Cal Fire is warning of spot fires caused by winds tonight, and Napa County officials are apologizing for a fire warning text that went out to multiple counties.
SF News SF Air Quality to Worsen Thursday Night, Improve By Friday Afternoon According to the latest smoke forecast, while fires may get scarier to our north — and while the East Bay hills are under Red Flag Warnings too — the smoke situation in San Francisco will get worse before it gets better.
SF News Ignition Point Of Glass Fire Identified and It's *Possible* It Wasn't PG&E's Fault Cal Fire investigators appear to have found the general area where the Glass Fire first ignited around 3:30 a.m. on September 27. A PG&E transmission line runs through the area, but an initial investigation has not pointed immediately to PG&E as the likely culprit, for a change.
SF News San Francisco City College Once Again In Trouble Over Its Financial Status It's been six years since SF City College nearly lost its accreditation over a variety of financial and mismanagement issues, and now the California accreditation board has once again put the school on its "enhanced monitoring" list due to its ongoing financial woes.
SF News [Update] New Fire Near Yountville Quickly Contained What's being called the Campbell Fire has just broken out Thursday morning in the vicinity of Oakville Grade Road and Campbell Creek Road in Napa County, just outside of Yountville on the west side of Highway 29.
SF News Glass Fire Continues to Grow As Containment Reaches 5 Percent Overnight Firefighters in Sonoma and Napa counties are bracing for two days of bigger and faster flames as high winds return, but containment on the Glass Fire inched up overnight to reach 5 percent.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Fires Worsen Housing Crisis in Santa Cruz The CDC has extended the cruise ship ban through October, San Jose is seeing a spike in fires at homeless encampments, and Facebook saw a spike in Proud Boys content after Tuesday's debate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feds Charge Tenderloin Drug Dealer In Fentanyl Death Air quality is going to decline fast over the Bay Area Wednesday night into Thursday, the Zogg Fire has claimed a fourth life, and the SFPD made two arrests in separate stabbings on Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Will Limit Indoor Tables to Two Hours, Servers to Be Trained In De-Escalation Techniques With Rule-Breakers With the new freedom to serve people indoors come a bunch of new restrictions aimed at curbing the potential spread of COVID-19 .
SF News Muni Fare Inspectors Return Next Month With New Polo Shirts The SFMTA has given everyone a reprieve from fare-inspection sweeps since early in the pandemic. But in a few weeks, the free ride (for those who've been taking advantage) comes to an end.
SF News Person In Crisis Prompts Police Shutdown of I-80 In San Francisco, Large Backup A major traffic jam on I-80 in San Francisco occurred Wednesday morning due to a police incident that began around 10 a.m., closing all eastbound lanes of the freeway approaching the Bay Bridge.
SF News Two New Infections Appear at San Quentin and Two More Inmates Die Of COVID-19 The COVID-19 outbreak at San Quentin State Prison was largely contained over a month ago, with no new infections detected for weeks on end. But according to new data from the state's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), that may be changing.
SF News Glass Fire Gains 1,800 Acres Overnight As Dry Conditions and Another Red Flag Warning Are on the Horizon Wednesday morning brought news that the Glass Fire had not significantly expanded its footprint compared to the day before, and all but around 14,000 residents have been allowed to return home in Sonoma County.
SF News Humpday Headlines: U.S. Attorney Recuses Himself In City Hall Case New York City is reopening restaurants at 25-percent capacity just as SF is, Berkeley residents woke up to a small earthquake, and Trump managed to drag Oakland into Tuesday night's debate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Glass Fire Grows to 42,500 Acres, Some Evacuation Orders Lifted Newsom signed into law a bill inspired by the Moms 4 Housing protest, Contra Costa County moved in to the "red" tier today, and fans of Meadowood are flooding social media with remembrances.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink As SF Enters 'Orange' Tier, Indoor Dining and Places of Worship Reopen Wednesday at Limited Capacity, Movie Theaters Next Week As has been anticipated for two weeks now, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Tuesday that the city will resume allowing indoor dining effective Wednesday, September 30, at 25-percent capacity.
Arts & Entertainment 150-Foot-Tall Ferris Wheel in Golden Gate Park and Academy of Sciences Set October Opening Dates Some of the 150th anniversary celebrations for Golden Gate Park are actually going to happen this year after all, and at the very least the 150-foot-tall "observation wheel" that we were promised is, in fact, opening for rides soon.
