SF News Multiple Major Wildfires Rage Around the Bay, Including Three In Napa County Five wildfires, four sparked by lightning, are burning around the Bay, including three now raging in Napa County that have grown larger in size than the two East Bay fires that began on Sunday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gap Closes Flagship Store At Powell and Market Hundreds of San Jose residents are livid at PG&E for a 44-hour power outage, a case of bubonic plague has popped up at South Lake Tahoe, and Gap Inc. is shutting down three of its of four SF stores.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hennessey Fire Near St. Helena Grows to 750 Acres Five more CA counties got added to the watch list today, PG&E is warning of random rolling blackouts tonight and tomorrow, and the lightning-caused fire in St. Helena has been named the Hennessey Fire, and it is still growing.
SF News 78-Year-Old Sonoma Man Goes Missing, Truck Found 65 Miles Away An at-risk elderly man left his Sonoma County home on Thursday intending to run an errand in downtown Sonoma, but he has yet to return. On Monday, the sheriff's department said that his car had been located 65 miles north, in Clearlake.
SF Politics New Attack Ad By Anti-Trump Republicans Confirms Trump Wanted To Cut Fire Assistance In CA For Political Reasons Remember when President Trump was spouting a lot of malarkey in November 2018 about how California needed to do better with "forest management" and that's why he wanted to cut off FEMA assistance after the devastating Camp Fire?
SF News Report: Pandemic Leads To Epidemic of Fentanyl Overdoses In SF The opioid crisis rages on in San Francisco's Tenderloin District and elsewhere across the Bay Area, despite being overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic in the last five months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Richmond District Dim Sum Spot Ton Kiang Closes For Good After 42 Years Another longtime SF institution isn't waiting around to see what happens when people are allowed to dine indoors again. Ton Kiang, which has been serving excellent dim sum and fried chicken wings for four decades on Geary Boulevard, is calling it quits on August 30.
SF News Lightning Strikes Spark Multiple Fires in Napa, Knock Out Power In Healdsburg Monday morning thunderstorms have sparked multiple vegetation fires in Napa County, including a significant-looking one in the woods near St. Helena, and a lightning strike took out power for 11,000 customers in Healdsburg.
SF News Speaker Pelosi Calls Back House From Recess To Deal With Postal Service Crisis Yet again this year we will be seeing a standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump, as the House begins making the case that Trump and his new postmaster general have been deliberately sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the election.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: San Francisco Resident Dies In House Fire A Safeway employee was shot in the parking lot of an American Canyon shopping center on Sunday, lightning-caused fires in the East Bay are still burning, and victims of the Golden State Killer will be offering testimony for four days ahead of his sentencing.
SF News Alleged Gang Member Arrested In July 2019 Murder Was Youth Activist Who Campaigned to Close Juvenile Hall Fernando Madrigal, the 22-year-old Mission District resident who was arrested this week with the help of the FBI in connection with the July 2019 murder of 15-year-old Day’von Hann, was a person well known to the media and the Board of Supervisors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Monster In the Mission' Project Beset With New Lawsuit A coalition of boutique gyms has filed more papers against the city, SF isn't likely to be scorched quite as hot as the rest of the Bay Area this weekend, and Trump is planning events to counter the Democratic convention.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Bay Area Hospitalizations Drop While SF's Tick Upwards Between Alameda, Contra Costa, and Santa Clara counties alone, 1,123 new cases were added to the Bay Area's cumulative total today, and Friday's increase is the biggest one-day uptick in the region since mid-July.
SF News Once Again, BART's Twitter Persona Gets Real, But This Time About Farts It's a been a minute since we had the pleasure of BART's Twitter account coming alive with some honest and/or sassy commentary. But whoever's in charge over there this summer, kudos.
SF Politics Kamala In the News: Kushner Denies Birther Comments, Angela Davis 'Isn't Excited,' and Kamala's Favorite Burrito Kamala Harris apparently has good taste in wine, and Jared Kushner would like us all to un-hear what President Trump said Thursday about some new birther theory being floated in conservative media about Harris.
SF News Trump and Bush Appointees On Ninth Circuit Rule That CA Ban On High-Capacity Magazines Is Unconstitutional In a victory for the gun lobby, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has invalidated California's law limiting gun magazines to 10 bullets, saying that the law violates the Second Amendment.
SF News Tahoe Residents Plan Weekend Protest Telling Tourists To Stay Home In what's likely to be a futile effort to discourage people from coming to Lake Tahoe from outside the area this summer, some residents of South Lake Tahoe are planning a demonstration Friday afternoon.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Food-Service Workers Picket Oracle Park Santa Clara County is launching an ambitious plan to house the homeless, the Times delves into how Biden came to pick Harris for VP, and Epic Games is now suing both Apple and Google over the Fortnite app store fight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alcatraz Reopens Monday COVID fears are brewing around potentially crowded beaches during this weekend's heatwave, Stanford publishes controversial new sex assault allegation rules, and Alcatraz reopens for outdoor tours only next week.
Arts & Entertainment SF Musician Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon) Accused Of Sexual Misconduct Three women have come forward with allegations that Bay Area-based singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek either acted inappropriately, assaulted them, or engaged in non-consensual sex with them in the last six years.
Business & Tech Apple Kicked Fortnite Out of the App Store, and Now Fortnite Has an Ad Mocking Apple's Famous '1984' Ad Epic is boldly using Apple's own brand history against them, taking the iconic "1984"-themed Super Bowl ad that defined Apple three decades ago as the brand that supported individuality in the face of PC tyranny, and using it to argue that Apple is now the oppressor.
SF Politics Who Will Gavin Pick to Take Kamala's Senate Seat? The Palace Intrigue Begins If all goes well this November, Governor Gavin Newsom will get to appoint a new Democratic Senator to take Vice President-elect Kamala Harris's seat. And the pressure will be on to select a woman — and a woman of color.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Prairie Closes In the Mission; Across the Street, Lazy Bear Faces Big Changes As Well Both Prairie and Lazy Bear made quick pivots to selling groceries, booze, and pantry provisions during the pandemic. Prairie closes this week, and Lazy Bear owner David Barzelay is giving it until October, for now.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Water Mains Burst All Over The East Bay Two people died in boating accidents on Lake Tahoe on Monday, water mains burst around the East Bay last night leaving people without water, and Ritual Coffee is having a reckoning over race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Sues Guest Over Unsanctioned Party Where Three Were Shot Five new liquor licenses are for sale for cheap in SF, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is pissed about Lake Merritt vendors and gatherings, and next year's Game Developers Conference is scheduled to happen in person at the Moscone Center in July.
