SF News Governor Gavin Newsom Issues Statewide Mask Order In a move that is sure to anger the Trump supporters and other anti-mask, anti-lockdown activists in many corners of the state, Governor Gavin Newsom has just issued a statewide order requiring all residents to wear face coverings in public to reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Arts & Entertainment Bad News: Male Peregrine Falcon Ate First Hatchling As It Emerged From Egg In PG&E Building Nest Mother Nature can be cruel. And in the case of the clutch of eggs that a female peregrine falcon has been incubating for over a month, all on live internet television, atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in San Francisco, it was the dad who ate his own young this time.
SF News Solano County COVID Case Count Rises 15% In One Day; Health Officer Blames Protests, Social Gatherings While much of the nine-county Bay Area has seen fairly steady and minimal growth in the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19, Solano County just recorded its single biggest one-day jump in cases.
Arts & Entertainment After Years of Protest and Vandalism, Columbus Statue Is Removed From Telegraph Hill As recently as October, Supervisor Aaron Peskin was vowing to prosecute the vandals who tossed red paint all over the statue of Christopher Columbus near Coit Tower. But now it's gone. Will Columbus Avenue be next?
SF News Home Invasion Suspects Take Hostages In Standoff With San Jose Police Two home invasion suspects were in an early morning standoff with police in San Jose, and they have now been taken into custody.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Trump Can't End DACA, SCOTUS Says The four young people who died in a crash by the Carquinez Bridge have been ID'd, the SFPD's Taraval Station captain has been removed for unknown reasons, and Trump now says Kaepernick should be able to play.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stinson Beach Explosion Damaged Historic Sand Dollar Restaurant The Tuesday morning explosion in Stinson Beach occurred in a real estate office, workers at a McDonald's in Oakland are suing over COVID exposure, and Oakland is investigating some "nooses" that were found around Lake Merritt that may have been exercise equipment.
SF News Arrest Made In Fatal Hunters Point Shooting The SFPD on Wednesday announced an arrest in connection with a shooting last week that left a woman in Hunters Point dead.
Business & Tech Facebook Is — A Little Late — Banning the Term 'Boogaloo' and Shutting Down Affiliated Groups Facebook seems to be learning about these fringe groups along with the rest of the country in the wake of several violent incidents — including two fatal shootings in Oakland and Santa Cruz.
SF News Homeless Woman Allegedly Pushes Man Onto BART Tracks In Front of Oncoming Train, And He Narrowly Escapes A woman identified as a transient who had been sleeping on a bench nearby is accused of attempted murder after allegedly shoving a man onto the BART tracks at Downtown Berkeley Station Monday night.
SF News Outbreak at San Quentin Leads to 46 COVID Cases Among Inmates; Activists Call For More Releases Prison outbreaks of COVID-19 have been widespread nationwide, and San Quentin State Prison in Marin County is the latest to see one. To date, 46 inmates have tested positive, and it's unclear how many prison employees have been impacted as well.
Arts & Entertainment Blue Whales Make Rare Appearance Off San Francisco Coast, Prompting Warning For Ships The Northern California coast tends to get its fair share of sightings of humpback whales and gray whales, but the largest mammals on earth, blue whales, don't do swim-bys quite so often as other species. This year, all rules are out the window.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Four Die In Carquinez Bridge Crash The SF Board of Supervisors is putting a new tax on the ballot aimed at overpaid CEOs, the memorial service for the slain Santa Cruz deputy is today, and four people died in a horrific SUV crash last night in Crockett.
SF News Santa Cruz Shooter Charged Along With 'Boogaloo Movement' Accomplice In Oakland Shooting Of Federal Officers Once again, a disturbing corner of the internet has popped into mainstream headlines by way of two men who were convinced a civil war is looming, and that members of law enforcement need to be killed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Healdsburg Mayor Resigns Over Police Comments A San Francisco woman says she was racially profiled at a Safeway, a mountain lion was spotted wandering the city, and the family of Oscar Grant is calling for the resignation of BART director Debora Allen.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: SF Supervisors Approve Phase 2 Variance to Reopen Bars In July San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is considering seeking a variance from the state in order to give the county health officer more leeway in including certain types of businesses in the upcoming phases of reopening.
SF News Uber Passenger Arrested for Battery and Carjacking After Driver Pulls Off Freeway to Pick Up Another Fare Some key details are a little unclear, but a Belmont man was arrested Friday night in what police are saying was an argument over an itinerary change that led to a violent exchange between an Uber passenger and a driver.
SF Politics SF District Attorney to Stop Filing Charges In Cases That Rely on Testimony From Problematic Cops San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced a new policy on Monday aimed at correcting the wrongs of over-policing and unjust prosecutions of people of color.
SF News Significant Explosion Turns Stinson Beach Into 'Warzone,' Temporarily Closes Highway 1 An unexplained explosion Tuesday morning blew the front off of a building on the main drag in Stinson Beach, shook the town like an earthquake, and caused a fire that spread to neighboring businesses.
SF News Sheriff Releases Video Footage Of Woman Shot By Officers In Half Moon Bay The woman who was reported to have shot at San Mateo County sheriff's deputies with a shotgun, and who was then fatally shot by deputies herself on May 5 in Half Moon Bay, has been identified as 56-year-old Sandra Lee Harmon.
SF News Inexpensive Steroid Is First Drug Proven to Reduce COVID Mortality Rates In the race to find effective treatments for COVID-19, a team at the University of Oxford has found that a low-cost — or as one BBC commentator put it "cheap-as-chips" — steroid called dexamethasone has proven to reduce deaths by a third among patients on ventilators.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E to Plead Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter PG&E is entering a guilty plea in Butte County court today, SF Mayor London Breed is introducing a new business tax reform measure, and the SFPD says it will stop releasing most booking photos.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Rename Two Elementary Schools In Honor of BLM Accused Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo has reportedly agreed to a plea deal, Matt Haney questions why Caltrans has to remove "Black Lives Matter" from the Bay Bridge, and Berkeley is renaming its Jefferson and Washington elementary schools.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dobbs Ferry Closes Permanently in Hayes Valley; Walzwerk Closes After 21 Years There are two more permanent restaurant closures to rack up in SF. One is the 21-year-old East German restaurant Walzwerk in the Mission, and the other is nine-year-old Dobbs Ferry in Hayes Valley.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Newsom Touts Low Statewide 'Percent-Positive' Figure Today in COVID-19 news around the Bay Area and the state, San Francisco recorded two new deaths over the weekend, the daily rate of new cases across the region has remained steady for a month, and Governor Newsom warns of upticks as the economy reopens.
