SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara Health Director Blasts CDC Over Testing Advice The weather will be warming up again this weekend, NBA Playoff games are postponed over Wisconsin protests, and Dr. Fauci says the CDC met with the Trump administration about new testing rules while he was in surgery.
Business & Tech Some SF Hotels Reopen to Accommodate Wildfire Evacuees at a Discount San Francisco's largely vacant hotels have an opportunity both to provide shelter to Bay Area residents displaced from their homes due to wildfire evacuation orders, and to make some revenue after months of nearly zero in the process.
SF News SFPD Seizes 29 Firearms, Meth and Other Narcotics In Outer Sunset Raid The San Francisco Police Department's Taraval Neighborhood Unit just announced the arrests of four SF residents and the seizure of over two dozen firearms, ammunition, and "various narcotics" following a raid on a residence last week.
Arts & Entertainment Inside Lands Broadcast To Feature Live Sets By Tycho, Sofi Tukker, Sharon Van Etten, and More The virtual version of Outside Lands, dubbed Inside Lands, will be airing this Friday and Saturday on Twitch — with organizers hoping that it reminds concertgoers how much they love the Golden Gate Park festival, and pushes them to purchase tickets for next year.
SF News Alleged Marin County Pedophile 'Sir Sicko' Arrested After Telling Undercover FBI Agent He Wanted To Film Murder Of Girl A Fairfax man and previously convicted sex offender has been charged in federal court after allegedly telling an undercover agent in an online chat that he wanted to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend as well as a five-year-old girl, and film the acts to sell online.
SF News Fire Updates: Some Evacuees Return Home In Napa and Sonoma; Armstrong Redwoods Largely OK Containment on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay grew overnight on Tuesday, and evacuation orders began to be lifted in parts of the North Bay that either burned last week or were largely spared.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dolan Fire May Have Destroyed Condor Sanctuary A Daly City man has been charged in federal court in a tire-dumping scheme involving tariffs, wildfire victims can now apply for federal assistance, and three people were killed in a fiery crash in Walnut Creek Tuesday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Squaw Valley To Drop Its Racist Name Squaw Valley will officially be dropping the name its had for 71 years after realizing it's offensive, Folsom Street is getting weekly Sunday street closures through October, and Wise Sons is merging with Oakland's Beauty's Bagels.
Arts & Entertainment Compton's Cafeteria Riot Anniversary Marked With 'Black Trans Lives Matter' Mural in Tenderloin At the heart of still in-development Transgender District in the Tenderloin, and right at the intersection where Compton's Cafeteria once stood, activists and volunteers painted a mural on Sunday using the colors of the transgender flag.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist/Prankster Puts Tiny Saxophones On the Ground for Pigeons to 'Play' The local artist and graphic designer responsible for those realistic-looking AirPod stickers that showed up on the ground around SF last fall has a new bit of tomfoolery to distract us from our pandemic/wildfire misery.
SF News Gang of Santa Cruz Natives Forms Amateur Fire Brigade, Claiming Cal Fire Isn't Doing Enough A volunteer group of amateur firefighters is taking it upon themselves to try to save homes in and around Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County, as the state's firefighting resources are stretched thin with too many fires to battle.
SF News New York Times SF Bureau Chief Is Already Very Tired Of Covering Fires Thomas Fuller, the San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times for the last four years, has been stuck covering wildfires for the last three very active fire seasons — and then came this one, starting off good and early. He is sounding really quite exhausted with it all.
Arts & Entertainment Mission's Carnaval Becomes Job Fair and COVID-Testing Event This year's Carnaval in the Mission, moved from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend, will look a lot different than most years, but there may be a few dancers passing through.
SF News Firefighters Slowly Increase Containment On Bay Area Fires Amid Favorable Weather Lower temperatures, higher humidity, and relatively calm winds have allowed firefighters to begin to get the upper hand on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay. But the smaller Woodward Fire in Marin County continues burning and threatening homes.
SF News Muni Train Service Halts Again Following Equipment Trouble, Key Personnel Testing COVID-Positive After only one weekday back in service, all Muni light-rail trains are going offline again for at least several weeks following an equipment failure on Monday, and a worker in the Muni Metro control center testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Most of the Redwoods In Big Basin Survived the Fire Most of the trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park appear to have survived the CZU fire complex, Alameda County is allowing hair salons to open outdoors, and former First Lady of SF Kimberly Guilfoyle gave a bizarre-ass speech at the RNC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hundreds of Parks Closed Due to Fires The remains of a woman missing in a 2005 Placer County murder have been found, Northern California is short on firefighting personnel, and a sideshow broke out in the Mission late Saturday/early Sunday.
SF News The 10 Largest Wildfires In California History Were Neither the Deadliest Nor the Most Destructive The history of wildfires in both recent and less recent California memory is dotted with truly tragic events like the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as incomprehensibly large and destructive events that were not necessarily as tragic because few homes or people were lost to them.
SF News Court Overturns Death Penalty In Notorious 2004 Scott Peterson Case The California Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday upholding the murder conviction of Scott Peterson, who was convicted 16 years ago in the December 2002 killing of his pregnant wife, but it said his trial may have been unfair in the sentencing phase.
SF News First COVID Rapid-Testing Site For Airport Workers In the U.S. Comes to SFO San Francisco International Airport just became the first airport in the U.S. to offer rapid COVID-19 testing to all airport and airline employees, with results in an hour or less.
SF News Red Flag Warning Called Off and Firefighters Make Steady Progress Containing Three Major Wildfires Mother Nature has gone easy on us for once this month, and fears of overnight lightning storms failed to materialize, giving firefighters another night of calm, cool conditions to make progress on the three major fires burning in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News First Weekday Of Major Muni Metro Changes Includes Overhead Wire Problem As of Saturday, August 22, Muni riders have been getting to see how some major changes are working on the Muni Metro train lines — and Monday morning all the new signs went up erasing the K and L lines from core-tunnel stations.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Air Quality In the East Bay Has Been Really Bad Zoom users experienced a major outage today, air quality remains terrible around SF, and a Vacaville man claims to have saved his property by spraying flames with Bud Light.
SF News Walbridge Fire Held Outside Of Guerneville and Healdsburg As High Winds Arrive; SCU Complex Prompts New Evacuation We are heading into a scary 48-hour period for the three massive wildfire complexes around the Bay Area as unstable air and possible thunderstorms move north from the remnants of Hurricane Genevieve.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Entire 2020 Wine Vintage Could Be Ruined By Smoke Taint From NorCal Fires The disparate wildfires raging in over a dozen counties in and around the Bay Area this August are happening before much of the grape harvest has even begun, threatening much of the vintage.
