SF News BART Ridership Hit a New Pandemic High Thursday as More People Are Moving Around Ridership on BART steadily climbed this week, as the agency's communications team announced Friday on Twitter, hitting a new high Thursday not seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
SF News SFPD Officer Involved In Shooting Near South Park Just before 1 p.m. Friday, there was an officer-involved shooting near South Park in San Francisco, and details so far are scarce.
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Kicks Off Season, Begins Selling Tickets For May and June Performances The San Francisco Symphony performed for a live audience on Thursday night for the first time in 14 months — a group of invited guests comprised of medical professionals and representatives of cultural districts and organizations around the region.
SF News San Francisco Lost 15,000 Residents In 2020; California Records First Dip In Population Since Statehood New population data from the state of California for the year 2020 finds that between COVID deaths and migration out of the state, California lost 182,000 residents — the first time in recorded state history that California's population has ever decreased.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg Has Bought Another 600 Acres on Kauai, and Hawaiians Are Pissed Adding to their already significant land holdings on the Hawaiian island of Kauai, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently closed on another deal adding 600 more acres on the island.
SF News First Red Flag Warning of Fire Season Issued for North and East Bay Hills Off-shore winds and generally dry, drought-y conditions mean heightened wildfire danger this weekend, and the National Weather Service (NWS) has issued the first Red Flag Warning of the new fire season.
Bay Area Sports Golden State Warriors Guard Damion Lee Contracted COVID After Being Vaccinated While the timeline he describes doesn't instill total confidence, Golden State Warriors player Damion Lee is on the injured list and recovering from a case of COVID-19, after allegedly being fully vaccinated.While
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Who's Afraid of a Tumbling Chinese Rocket? An arrest has been made in a March 29 fatal shooting in the Mission, the 84-year-old woman stabbed on Market Street on Tuesday is in good spirits, a Chinese rocket is going to crash somewhere on the planet tomorrow, and the Chronicle wades into all the fnnch honey bear hate.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Rebrands and Restructures Its Gang Task Force The SFPD Narcotics division has been conducting a lot of busts in Oakland, and SF jury acquitted a man in an August 2020 shooting in the Tenderloin, and Twitter has now banned 'From the Desk of Donald Trump.'
Arts & Entertainment Crazy Looking, Green-Powered Catamaran to Sail Through Golden Gate Thursday Evening A solar-, wind-, and hydrogen-powered catamaran dubbed the Energy Observer is making a stop in the Bay Thursday evening and staying for the week.
Arts & Entertainment Church of 8 Wheels Roller Disco Reopens Friday "The GodFather of Skate" and "The Mayor of Golden Gate Park" Rev. David Miles is finally ready to reopen the Church of 8 Wheels on Friday, with masks required.
SF News Students and Teachers Protest at Castro Safeway After Fifth-Grader Gets Racially Profiled There was a kid-led march on Wednesday to protest the treatment of a San Francisco fifth-grader who was accused of stealing a sandwich at the Safeway on Market and Church streets.
SF Politics Caitlyn Goes On 'Hannity,' Already Says Something Asinine About the Homeless Caitlyn Jenner, the newly declared candidate for California governor and the Phyllis Schlafly of the trans community, is already being pilloried on social media for comments she made during a pointless interview with Sean Hannity on Wednesday.
SF News U.S. Drought Monitor Downgrades Entire Bay Area and Much of State Into 'Extreme' Drought Conditions SF may be "yellow" on the COVID reopening map, but a different map has us in the "red." Just two weeks after categorizing the region as being in a "severe" drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor has updated its map and put the entire Bay Area in the second-worst category for drought conditions.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Gang of Condors Invades California Woman's Deck A Berkeley homeless woman has just been arrested for a hate crime for the second time this year, a big conference has pulled out of the Moscone Center for November, and a Southern California woman is dealing with a bunch of condors who won't leave her porch alone.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Double Stabbing Had Serious Mental Health History, Prior Assault Arrest In SF The 54-year-old suspect in the stabbing of two elderly Asian women had been in SF's Mental Health Diversion Program until 2020, the necropsy of a fifth dead whale was found to be a ship strike, and Benecia is now giving out pizza to young people getting their vaccines.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Mass-Vaccination Site to Close May 23; Moscone Center to Close May 28 One of the Bay Area's biggest mass-vaccination sites will shut down for good on May 23, in yet another sign of ongoing progress in the pandemic fight — and signaling the shift in focus for the vaccine campaign.
SF News Verdict Reached In Italian Murder Trial of Bay Area Youths: Both Convicted, Given Life Sentences The two young men accused in the July 2019 fatal stabbing of a police officer in Rome were found guilty of murder by a jury on Wednesday and given the harshest sentences possible.
SF News F-Market Streetcars Begin Rolling Up and Down Market and Embarcadero May 15 You may have seen some out-of-service F-Market cars rolling on Market Street in recent days, as the SFMTA trains or retrains operators and prepares for the May 15 return of the historic streetcar service between the Wharves and the Castro.
SF News Shootout at SFO Grand Hyatt Likely Connected to Carjacking Attempt; Investigation Continues A dramatic Monday evening shooting outside the new Grand Hyatt hotel at San Francisco International Airport involved at least two gunmen, and the suspects apparently tried to carjack a new getaway vehicle right around the time of the shooting.
Business & Tech Facebook 'Supreme Court' Verdict Is In: Trump Ban Stands (But Maybe Not Forever) Facebook's appointed Oversight Board has just issued its most notable content moderation decision to date, and they say that the ban of President Trump in the wake of January 6th was justified.
SF News Two Elderly Asian Women Stabbed on Mid-Market, Suspect Arrested A pair of elderly Asian women were stabbed and seriously injured while waiting for a bus at 4th and Market streets on Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested a few blocks away.
SF News Humpday Headlines: CVS Now Doing Walk-In Vaccinations A family dog caused a fiery crash at a Concord gas station, CVS is now taking vaccine walk-ins nationwide, and the SFPD is seeking a teen suspect seen setting a woman's hair on fire on a Muni bus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Monterey Bay Aquarium Reopens Next Week A convicted sex offender was convicted of stalking an elderly woman in Napa County, yet another building under construction in Oakland has gone up in flames, and Trump has launched a new blog since he's not allowed to tweet.
SF News Noe Valley Home Of LGBTQ Heroes Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Gets Landmarked Just over a year after Phyllis Lyon passed away at the age of 95, the home that she shared for over five decades with her wife and life partner Del Martin is being declared a city landmark.
