SF News Mosquito Fire Quickly Grows to Largest CA Wildfire of the Year, at 64,000 Acres and Counting Between Wednesday and Thursday morning, the Mosquito Fire burning in Placer and El Dorado counties grew around 14,000 acres as firefighters focused on saving the town of Foresthill on the fire's western front.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Tremor Hits the Hayward Fault Overnight The second Hayward Fault tremor of the week — and the fourth smallish earthquake in the Bay Area — struck at 2:41 a.m. in Berkeley, four SFPD vehicles had their catalytic converters stolen in one fell swoop, and there's a new study about how the vaccines did against Omicron subvariants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Typhoon Rains Might Blow Into the Bay This Weekend Sonoma County saw a third small earthquake just before noon today east of the town of Sonoma, Amtrak is suspending routes ahead of a freight rail worker strike, and some typhoon remnants could bring us some early-season rain this weekend.
Business & Tech SF-Based Twilio Lays Off Around 850 Employees In Effort Toward Profitability It's more bad news on the tech-layoff front Wednesday as San Francisco-based cloud-communications software firm Twilio announced in an SEC filing that it would be laying off 11% of its global staff, or around 800 people.
SF News BART to Close Part of Track on Antioch Line Over Three Weekends This Fall For Repairs Residents of Martinez, Pittsburg, and Antioch will be dealing with bus bridges and interrupted service in the coming weeks as BART begins repairs on the section of track that was damaged in a June heatwave.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dutch Fire Breaks Out In Placer County Near Mosquito Fire The Mosquito Fire entered the community of Foresthill on Tuesday and threatened many structures, a second smaller fire broke out nearby in Placer County, and four people were shot in a chaotic scene in East Oakland.
SF News 4.3M Earthquake and 3.9M Aftershock Jolt Santa Rosa Area, Cause Minor Damage A pair of earthquakes in quick succession Tuesday evening jolted and rattled Sonoma County, particularly in and around Santa Rosa where the epicenter was.
Business & Tech Twitter Whistleblower Testifies About Breaches, Vulnerabilities on the Platform Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, the Twitter whistleblower and former security exec there who surfaced three weeks ago to tell the world that all is not well within Twitter's security systems, testified before a Senate Committee today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Two Bay Area Restaurants Make Bon Appetit's Best New Restaurants List After a year in which it seemed like there were a lot more restaurants closing or just hanging on than opening, Bon Appetit has published its annual Restaurant Issue, and the Bay Area nabs only 2 out of 50 spots on the list.
SF Politics New Poll Finds — Suprise! — San Franciscans Dislike Most of Their City Leaders A new survey that the Chronicle conducted alongside a professional pollster in late June and early July found that San Franciscans are largely unhappy with how the city is being run, and they blame both the mayor and the Board of Supervisors about equally.
SF News Mosquito Fire Nears 50,000 Acres, Now 18% Contained The Mosquito Fire, now burning for a week in Placer and El Dorado counties, quickly overtook the SoCal Fairview Fire as the largest fire currently burning in the state, and as of this morning reached 49,761 acres.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: At Least Two Injured During SF Sideshow New video shows at least two people who were struck by cars in a sideshow on Van Ness early Sunday, the suspect in the San Carlos beheading is being sent for a psych evaluation, and the first monkeypox death in the U.S. has been confirmed in Los Angeles.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Video Inside the Central Subway Tunnels During Testing An SFPD officer was injured while trying to interrupt a catalytic converter theft, Twitter and Elon Musk are still exchanging barbs, and Jeffrey Tumlin posts sped-up video of a Central Subway train during testing.
Arts & Entertainment Tommy Lee Told Mötley Crüe Fans In SF to Whip Out Dicks at Oracle, and Some People Were Upset Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee says "The world is too soft!" after someone spoke to the local media and threatened to file an indecent exposure complaint after Lee encouraged fans to expose their genitals during the band's show last week at Oracle Park.
SF News Third Consecutive La Niña Winter Now Looking Likely This may be bad news for recovering from the ongoing drought, if not necessarily disastrous. But we are most definitely in for another winter of La Niña, which hasn't brought us sufficient rain and snow the past two years.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Charged In Double Murder; Mother Says He Was 'Blinded By Love' The suspect in the second-most shocking and bizarre Bay Area homicide of last week, Alameda County Sheriff's Deputy Devin Williams Jr., was arraigned Friday — even as the double homicide in an East Bay suburb that he allegedly committed was overshadowed by a beheading on the Peninsula.
SF News Suspect In San Carlos Beheading Reportedly Had Mental Illness, Had Made Serious Threats Weeks Earlier The man accused of brutally murdering his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child last Thursday made his first court appearance Monday, as new details in the case continued to emerge.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Noooo! Arinell Pizza Has Closed After 33 Years on Valencia Street One of SF's closest simulacra of New York-style pizza, Arinell Pizza on Valencia, closed its doors for good on Saturday.
SF News San Francisco Conducts Drill to Practice Airlifting In Supplies After a Major Earthquake Takes Down Bridges San Francisco's Department of Emergency Management (DEM) warned residents to stay clear of McLaren Park Monday morning as they were conducting a disaster response drill with a helicopter.
SF News Six-Month Manhunt Ends With Arrest of Dhante Jackson, Accused In the Abuse and Killing of 8-Year-Old Hayward Girl The man believed responsible for the brutal abuse and killing of an 8-year-old East Bay girl, who has been on the run for the last six months, has been arrested along with several women who have been helping him hide.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Small Earthquake Rattles East Bay A 2.9M quake hit last night around 10:30 that was centered near the Caldecott Tunnel in the Oakland hills, the SFPD suspended a chase in the Tenderloin Sunday evening for public safety reasons, and Oakland's popular Snail Bar is an annoyance for neighbors.
SF News Victim In Domestic Violence Beheading In San Carlos Identified, Friends and Family Say She Feared for Her Life A tragic incident that was the gruesome culmination of an abusive relationship turns more tragic and unfortunate with each new detail that comes out. And we now know the identity of the young mother who was killed by her estranged, violent boyfriend and father of one of her children.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Group Behind Spruce and Village Pub to Open Three Side-by-Side Restaurants In Potrero Hill Bacchus Management Group, which has a history of attracting loyal followings to its restaurants as well as Michelin stars, has plans for three new businesses in Potrero Hill, including an Italian trattoria and a new burger joint.
SF News Pete Buttigieg and Nancy Pelosi Toured the Central Subway, Said It Looks Great On Thursday, the man formerly known as Mayor Pete joined Mayor London Breed, Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to tour the much delayed and still not quite operational Central Subway in SF.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to 14,000 Acres, Jumps Into El Dorado County, Begins Impacting Tahoe Air Quality A wildfire that broke out Tuesday in Placer County, west of Lake Tahoe, grew significantly on Thursday and overnight, aided by ongoing hot and dry conditions. And it has begun ruining the air quality for late-summer pleasure-seekers around the Lake Tahoe basin.
