SF News Day Around The Bay: Fire Victim May Give New Life To Infant Through Organ Donation Fire news: The Bear Fire, which broke out late last night in the Santa Cruz mountains, is now over 200 acres and remains just 5 percent contained. [Cal Fire] A brush fire in
Arts & Entertainment SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week Assuming you will not be helping friends or family pick up the pieces after fires in the North Bay, or volunteering to help evacuees this week, below find some fun activities to take
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Salt & Straw Debuts In Hayes Valley This Week, Will Donate To Fire Victims The second SF location of Portland-based Salt & Straw ice cream debuts Friday with a particularly frightful, if inventive, list of Halloween-season flavors, and with a charitable focus in light of the fires
SF News Video: Watch A Berkeley Fire Crew React As They Approach The Tubbs Fire In Its First Hours A video that puts in perspective the swiftness and vastness of the devastation that first responders encountered in the early hours of the wine country wildfires one week ago is this one, from
SF News Federal Judge In Hawaii Halts Trump's Third Attempt At A Travel Ban Amidst all the recent discussion of sanctuary cities, Dreamers and DACA, you may have forgotten that President Trump's other controversial move impacting immigrants and travelers into the US, primarily those from Muslim-majority nations,
SF News 28 Years Ago Loma Prieta Rocked, Cracked, And Crumbled The Bay Area It's hard to focus too heavily on the past today, after a week that has seen some of the worst and sure to be counted as the deadliest wildfires in state history that
SF News Tesla Factory Dogged By Allegations Of Racist Attacks By Workers That Went Unpunished Three more men have come forward alleging that they were the victims of racist verbal attacks and harassment on the factory floor of Tesla's Fremont plant, and they've filed a lawsuit in Alameda
SF News New Fire Breaks Out In Santa Cruz Mountains, Threatens At Least 100 Homes Firefighters are battling a 125 acre fire off Bear Creek Rd, SW of San Jose (San Mateo Co). #BearFire Evacs in place https://t.co/p4pDI6YQyb pic.twitter.com/zPMdCHL7Wh— CAL FIRE (@CAL_
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Boogaloos To Come Back From The Dead This Winter Good old Valencia Street brunch stalwart Boogaloos, which got hit with a massive rent hike two years ago and then a minor fire that shut the place down, seemingly for good, a year
SF News Those Who Lost Their Lives In Wine Country Fires Include Disabled Woman, Dozens Of Retirees One week after a fast-moving wildfire tore through several neighborhoods in Santa Rosa just as multiple other fires were igniting in Sonoma, Napa, Mendocino, Lake, Yuba and several other counties, we are getting
SF News Woman Who Survived Las Vegas Shooting Loses Home To Fire In Santa Rosa A woman who escaped the mass shooting in Las Vegas two weeks ago came home to Santa Rosa only to barely escape the flames there, and lose the house she was sharing with
Arts & Entertainment Kardashian Sisters Have Girls' Weekend At Fairmont Hotel, Go To Alcatraz, Step Out In SF Kim Kardashian rocks sheer thigh-high stockings in SF https://t.co/hXwhzRpS16 pic.twitter.com/CjUfakCsLF— Zesty Celebrity News (@zesty_celebrity) October 15, 2017 Against the backdrop of a fire-ravaged wine country, the
SF News One Week In, Evacuation Shelters For The Fire-Displaced Become Unpleasant Long-Term Homes The situation for many of the thousands of evacuees who remain displaced by wildfires in Northern California is an unhappy one for more reasons than the loss of homes and neighbors. Evacuation shelters
SF News #MeToo Campaign Highlights The Widespread Commonality Of Sexual Harassment On Twitter over the weekend, women began sharing stories of sexual harassment and assault using the hashtag #MeToo in an effort to illustrate the magnitude and commonplaceness of the problem across many corners
SF News Firefighter Dies Helping To Keep Fire Away From Famed Mondavi Winery As the Nuns Fire edges closer to one of Napa's most iconic wineries, a firefighter has lost his life in the process of trying to keep the fire at bay. The fireman's vehicle,
Arts & Entertainment Jack Dorsey Is Sorry Twitter Is So Terrible This year, says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, harassment and abuse was the company's "top priority" and they've "made a lot of progress." This was part of a mini tweet storm Friday that Dorsey
SF News Fire Death Toll Hits 40 As Containment Levels Rise There are still 17 fires burning across Northern California, but containment is now looking closer to becoming a reality for the largest of the fires in Napa and Sonoma County. Meanwhile the death
SF News New Evacuations Ordered In Santa Rosa And Sonoma As Senators Feinstein And Harris Arrive For Community Meeting The fires burn on to our north, and as of late Friday the death toll was revised up to 35 with the addition of two elderly men found in a home in Napa,
SF News Body Of Las Vegas Shooter Sent To Stanford For Brain Analysis The body of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Craig Paddock is in the Bay Area after the local coroner has completed his own autopsy. As the Associated Press reports, the remains of the 64-year-old
SF News Day Around The Bay: Deaths Of Two Napa Men Bring Fire Toll To 35 Fire news: Two elderly men have been identified as the third and fourth victims of the Atlas Fire in Napa County, 89-year-old Dr. George Chaney and a 79-year-old man believed to be Edward
Arts & Entertainment 'Imaginary Comforts' At Berkeley Rep Delights In The Stories We Tell To Comfort (And Scare) Ourselves Writer Daniel Handler, best known for his children's books under the nom de plume Lemony Snicket, was scribbling ideas after the death of his father, ideas and characters that would ultimately coalesce into
SF News The 13 Worst Wildfires In California History The grim comparisons continue to be made to fires of yesteryear, and as the death toll continues to rise in Northern California's staggeringly devastating swarm of October wildfires, it's eye-opening to understand especially
Arts & Entertainment Russians Apparently Also Used Pokemon Go To Create Division, Promote Black Lives Matter Well, this is insane. In addition to creating fake Facebook and Twitter accounts, creating events, and buying Facebook ads to sow division and influence the 2016 election, Russian agents apparently also created a
SF News Homes Of Former SF Mayor, Peanuts Creator Destroyed In Tubbs Fire Frank Jordan, former #SF mayor, loses his home to Sonoma County fire. https://t.co/exEP2MndpT pic.twitter.com/WDu6trX3el— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) October 13, 2017 Former San Francisco Mayor Frank Jordan is one
SF News Three Couples, Three Swimming Pools Surrounded By Fire, One Heart-Wrenching Ending Was your house damaged or destroyed in the Northern California fires? Tell us your story https://t.co/0rmg4rLA8x pic.twitter.com/4XIeTWVzvD— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) October 13, 2017 Among the survival
