SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: At Least 25,000 Lose Power In Napa and Sonoma Most evacuation orders in Sonoma were downgraded this morning, Marin County has to wait to enter the "red" tier for reopening, and tens of thousands of Bay Area residents are without power today and likely tomorrow too.
SF News Fire Flare-Ups and High Winds Prompt New Evacuations In Sonoma County, Widespread Power Shutoff Warnings Even before a Red Flag Warning had fully taken effect in Sonoma County, wind-blown flare-ups in the area of the Walbridge Fire — which was 95-percent contained as of Monday morning — prompted new evacuation orders Monday night for fire-weary residents.
Arts & Entertainment Jelly Belly Creator Launches Willy Wonka-Inspired Scavenger Hunt For 'Gold Tickets' David Klein, the eccentric man who is credited with conceiving of the Jelly Belly jelly bean brand in 1976 and who now runs a lesser known company called Candyman Kitchens, says he wants to give something joyful to the world this miserable election season.
SF News Smoke From Mendocino, Other Fires Chokes the Bay Area As Closer Fires Near Full Containment This Labor Day is less than a pleasant one for barbecues or anything outdoors, really, with the air heating up and more wildfire smoke descending on San Francisco and much of the Bay Area.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Sideshow Turns Deadly In Excelsior SF hit 100 degrees on Sunday for the first time in three years, the Creek Fire in Madera County has grown to 79,000 acres, and three people were shot — one fatally — during a late Sunday sideshow in SF's Excelsior District.
SF News Day Around the Bay: IKEA Might Be Coming to Downtown SF IKEA has bought the 6x6 mall on mid-Market, Elizabeth Holmes is making a bunch of noise in her court case, and Newsom just relaxed some of the independent contractor restrictions from AB5.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Five Meal Kits to Grab in SF For an Easy Holiday Weekend Treat Unless you're one of the lucky ones who's being cooked for every day in this pandemic, you are likely really sick of coming up with meal plans and cooking your own food by now. So maybe for this Labor Day Weekend staycation, you should treat yourself to something mostly pre-made.
Arts & Entertainment Fort Mason to Become SF's First Drive-In Movie Theater Later This Month The Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture is kicking off an outdoor, drive-in movie series on September 18, and it's set to go for at least a month.
SF Politics Will the Pandemic Retail Apocalypse Push SF Neighborhoods to Ease Formula Retail Rules? The pandemic and recession may be reason enough to ease at least some of the restrictions that have kept chain stores of all kinds from populating empty retail spaces, now that neighborhoods like Hayes Valley are looking pretty grim.
SF News Cal Fire Races to Contain Remaining Fires Ahead of Weekend Dry Spell A weekend heatwave with a drop in humidity could create hazards as firefighters work to contain what remains of the three major wildfire complexes in the Bay Area.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Suspect In Portland Shooting Killed By Police Alameda parents are upset over a racist online learning program, the SF Sheriff's Department wants to take over SFO duties, and a potentially damaging report emerges about Trump disparaging war dead.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dozens of Bay Area Schools Granted Waivers to Reopen There were two separate homicides in Vallejo last night, a youth theater teacher in Los Gatos was arrested for inappropriate Zoom behavior, and salon owners and others "rallied" outside Pelosi's SF home today.
Business & Tech As Trump Reverses and Recommends Mailing In Ballots and Voting Twice, Twitter Slaps Label On Tweet The President continued his unhinged lunacy on Thursday, changing course in his rhetorical war on mail-in voting by recommending that voters — presumably only those who vote for him — to mail in ballots and then show up in person at polling places as well.
SF News 'Excessive Heat Warning' Issued For Much of Bay Area on Saturday; Smoke May Only Be Temporarily Clearing The latest heatwave headed our way is coming with an "excessive heat warning" covering much of the Bay Area that begins on Saturday morning. And San Franciscans shouldn't get complacent — remember Labor Day Weekend three years ago when the forecasts were 20 degrees off?
SF News Alameda County Leads Bay Area In Deadliest Two Days of the Pandemic So Far Alameda County added 17 new COVID-related deaths on Wednesday and 21 on Thursday, the highest two-day total of any Bay Area county since the pandemic began.
Business & Tech Facebook Says It Will 'Restrict' Political Ads In the Last Week Before Election, Fact-Check When Trump Tries to Declare Victory Early Admitting that the platform could play a role in destroying democracy as we know it, Facebook says it will limit or restrict new political ads in the week leading up to the election in November.
SF News Hairstylist Backs Up Nancy's Story, Claims Salon Owner Has Been Operating Indoors Illegally for Months The drama escalated after the stylist who had taken the appointment with the speaker issued a statement — through a lawyer — laying out a few claims of his own about Erica Kious, the salon owner who sent surveillance video of Pelosi to Fox News.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Day-Trippers Told To Stay Away From Point Reyes Tracking the Hennessey Fire's rapid spread two weeks ago, a National Guardsman had to be rescued in Sonoma County after a fall, and casinos are reopening for outdoor gambling in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CDC Tells States To Be Ready For Pre-Election Vaccine That May Happen Post-Election Trump is clearly trying to use the CDC to legitimize his claims that a COVID vaccine will be ready very soon, California is adjusting its ratings for counties that are doing extra testing, and a San Leandro police officer has been charged with manslaughter for Walmart shooting.
SF News LNU and SCU Fire Complexes Top 70-Percent Containment The LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa and several other counties has reached 76-percent containment as Wednesday, with full containment estimated by early next week. The slightly larger SCU Lightning Complex stood at 72-percent contained as of midday.
SF News Hey Chatty Cathys: Talking To Strangers In Grocery Stores Helps Spread COVID There is public health advice, from experts, confirming that unnecessary chit-chat in public can actually be deadly, even with masks on.
SF News SF Gym Owners Call Out City For Allowing City-Worker Gyms to Open When They Can't Indoor gyms that serve San Francisco police officers and other government employees have reopened for workouts for limited numbers of people at a time, and San Francisco gym and fitness studio owners are decrying this as hypocritical when they are forced to remain closed.
SF Politics Fresno-Based Salon Owner Behind Leak Of Maskless Pelosi Photo At SF Hair Salon A Fresno-based hair stylist and salon owner says she was "outraged" when one of her freelance stylists told her she would be accepting a blowout appointment with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the Union Street salon she owns. And that's why she released surveillance footage of Pelosi to Fox News.
SF News What's a Splice? Explaining Why the Muni Metro Is Now Closed For the Rest of 2020 On Tuesday, Muni staff gave a report to the SFMTA Board in which they explained why the Muni Metro system collapsed and shut down again last week after reopening for just three days — and why light-rail trains now won't be running again until next year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Spare the Air Alert Extended as Smoke Is Expected to Stay Facebook and Twitter have shut down a Russian "troll factory" that was employing American freelancers, Pacifica is closing all of its beaches this weekend, and Carole Baskin is going to be on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
