SF News Massive Evacuation Orders Come As Oregon Wildfire Nears Portland Suburb Approximately half the residents of Oregon's Clackamas County — the edge of which abuts the southern city limits of Portland — have been ordered to evacuate their homes as one of five wildfires currently burning in the state is threatening several towns and suburbs.
SF News Smoke To Sit Over Entire Bay Area All Day Friday As Air Quality Readings Hit 300+ As forecast yesterday by those in the know, the smoke situation that has dimmed and discolored the sky over the Bay Area isn't going to magically clear on Friday. There isn't enough wind to push the smoke in any direction except swirling over us, according to the latest model.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Death Toll in Bear Fire Hits 10 The SF Fire Department held a pared-down version of their annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony, BART is increasing train frequency starting Monday, and Bay Area brides are finding wedding venues won't give their money back for canceled ceremonies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Court Shuts Down Trump's Last Attempt to Exclude Undocumented Immigrants From Census Elizabeth Holmes may try to convince the court she has a "mental disease," one of the Oregon wildfires may have been arson, and say goodbye to Pablo Sandoval.
SF News Indoor Gym Workouts Can Resume Monday In San Francisco — At Limited Capacity After over a month of heavy lobbying by small fitness studio and gym owners, San Francisco is moving ahead to reopen gyms for indoor workouts starting Monday — along with hair and nail salons and Airbnbs.
SF News 'Records Will Continue To Be Broken': Mendocino Fire Has Now Leaped Ahead of Bay Area Complexes In Size 2020 is set to add more record-huge blazes to that list before the year is out, and the August Complex fires burning in Mendocino National Forest have now surpassed both the LNU and SCU complexes in size to become the second-largest wildfire in state history.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The List of SF Restaurants That Have Closed Since the Pandemic Begin Nearly 70 restaurants have permanently closed in San Francisco, by our count, since March. And this doesn't count the small ones that may have shuttered without fanfare or blog notices. Here's the list.
SF News Climate Scientists Declare La Nina Season Ahead, Which May Or May Not Bring Extra Rain to Northern California It's officially going to be a La Niña fall and winter, which could be disastrous for Southern California in terms of extending the dry season in an already extra fire-prone year. But it's anyone's guess whether it will noticeably affect our weather in the Bay Area or not.
SF Politics Hair Salon Owner Claims She's Closing Cow Hollow Business Because She's 'Afraid to Return' to SF Erica Kious, the Fresno-based hairstylist and salon owner who quickly became persona non grata to liberals and a hero to Fox News watchers when she leaked video of Nancy Pelosi coming to her SF salon for a blowout last week, has returned to Fox News to announce she's now "afraid to return" to SF.
Arts & Entertainment Here's a Video Of What It Looked Like Taking Off From SFO Into the Orange Smoke On Wednesday We know what being on the ground looked like. But what did it actually look like as you flew up above the clouds and the smoke?
SF News Three People Are Dead and At Least A Dozen Are Missing As Bear Fire Rages In Butte County The fire that's been being referred to as the Bear Fire received a new official name from Cal Fire Thursday morning: North Complex West Zone.
SF News Smoky Skies To Last At Least Through Friday As Air Quality Worsens In Bay Area Things weren't quite as orange on Thursday morning as they were a day earlier, though the sky may look like that again before all this is through. And unlike yesterday when ground-level air quality was fairly okay, today's not a day to be walking outside or exercising.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Suspects Arrested In String Of Sonoma Robberies This year's fires are prompting rethinking in fire management policy, the state Supreme Court has allowed SF's Prop C to stand — providing more money for homeless services — and people landing at SFO on Wednesday were pretty freaked out by the orange sky.
SF Politics Pelosi Tears Into Trump Over Revelations That He Openly Admitted to Downplaying Virus Threat Revelations coming from on-the-record interviews that Trump (bafflingly) did with veteran journalist Bob Woodward for his forthcoming book 'Rage' have provided insight into the president's disgustingly flawed approach to the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Oasis' Drag Queen Food Delivery Service Makes the 'New York Times,' CNN As the pandemic rages on and California chokes with wildfire smoke, San Francisco drag queens continue to innovate. And the New York Times and CNN have just taken notice.
Arts & Entertainment 14 Photos Of San Francisco Landmarks Under a 'Blade Runner 2020' Orange Sky Hey! The entire city is lit up Giants orange! JK. Too soon?
SF News PG&E Issues 'All Clear': When Is Power Coming Back On In Napa and Sonoma? On Wednesday morning, PG&E issued an "all clear" for the most recent wind event in the North Bay and the Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS) that impacted a broad swath of Northern California.
SF News Dark-Sky Wednesday Headlines: Two Previous Murder Suspects Arrested In North Beach Burglaries Three SF men were arrested for multiple burglaries in North Beach, BART is adding back some more rush-hour trains, and near-surface smoke is expected to remain light in SF throughout the day.
SF News Sky In SF Turns Apocalypse Orange As Smoke From Oregon, Mendocino Fires Fills Atmosphere It doesn't smell smoky in San Francisco on Wednesday morning, just as it didn't for most of Tuesday. Yet the color of the sky turned an even more disturbing, Hades-like orange as everyone woke from their slumbers today, and it's thanks to fires that are burning very far away.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Air Quality Was Actually Pretty Good Today Despite Yellow Sky The yellow sky is just smoke way above us (and the air is actually okay), SF crossed the 10,000 mark for COVID cases, and Santa Clara is entering the "red" tier.
SF News IKEA Confirmed For Mid-Market Mall Project; Breed Takes Credit For Pitching the Idea IKEA is coming to downtown to SF next fall, to the long-empty 6x6 mall on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, and the plan is for an urban version of an IKEA store that's about 20-percent of the size of their regular, sprawling suburban complexes.
SF News More Than Half of People Leaving SF Say They'll Probably Come Back, In Small Chronicle Sampling It's hard to say just how transformational the current exodus of people from SF is going to be in the long run, or even how large it is compared to a normal September. But it's happening, and some are saying they'll be back.
SF News Latest Development Proposal for Piers 30-32 and Navigation Center Lot Includes 850 Housing Units, Floating Pool Brace yourselves for a new fight over a waterfront development site as the Port of San Francisco looks to be selecting a development proposal for Piers 30-32 — a.k.a. the piers that the Warriors almost built their arena on before being shouted down to Mission Bay back in 2014.
SF News Homeless Man Arrested In Connection With Three Suspected Arson Fires In Marin County For the second time in a week a transient man was arrested in Novato on suspicion of arson — this time it was a string of three suspicious fires, one of which authorities say they saw him light.
Arts & Entertainment Burning Man Groups Come Forward About Saturday Beach Party, Insist Most People Were Masked One Burning Man camp responsible for DJing from their burner bus that night has taken some responsibility, but they say that SFPD officers and park rangers didn't tell them to cut the music until 1 a.m.
