SF News 52-Year-Old Asian Man Robbed and Beaten Next to Fillmore Area Restaurant A 52-year-old man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet, watch, and cellphone on New Year's Eve in the Fillmore District.
Arts & Entertainment Good News!: Bonded Peregrine Falcon Couple Revives Their Courtship Atop Berkeley Campanile, Following Injury As if they knew it was New Year's Day and almost time to raise another brood of chicks, longtime falcon lovers Annie and Grinnell reunited and were observed on camera performing courtship behavior for the first time since Grinnell's November return to the nest following a fight with a rival.
SF News French Bulldog Stolen on New Year's Day in the Marina Has Been Returned A nine-month-old Frenchie named Rosie has reportedly been returned to her family, though it's not yet clear whether someone collected the $10,000 reward being offered.
SF News San Francisco Ends Year With Richmond District Homicide A New Year's Eve shooting became San Francisco's 56th homicide of the year, marking an uptick in the homicide rate seen in recent years.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations In SF Cross 100 For First Time Since September; Bay Area Number Doubles Since Mid-December The first days of the new year look depressingly similar to the first days of last year, with COVID cases once again surging and hospitals filling up from a spike in holiday-season infections.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: State Begins Unique Study of COVID Antibody Prevalence Oakland's first homicide of the year happened on New Year's Day, Willie Brown calls London Breed's Tenderloin tough talk "very bold" and "grandmotherish," and California is launching a unique study of COVID antibody prevalence across the state's diverse population.
SF News The CA Drought Map Has Changed a Lot Since September We aren't out of the drought yet, and we won't be unless January, February, and March are as ridiculously rainy as December was. But most of California and the Bay Area is officially out of 'exceptional drought' status.
SF News KTVU Anchorman Frank Somerville Arrested In Suspected DUI Crash In Downtown Oakland KTVU anchor Frank Somerville was arrested Thursday night after allegedly rear-ending a car in a downtown Oakland intersection and then pushing that car into a pole.
SF News Starting Saturday It Will Cost Eight Bucks to Cross the Bay Bridge During Rush Hour With the new year comes a new hike in bridge tolls on seven state-owned bridges in the Bay Area. And this hike will put rush-hour tolls on the Bay Bridge at a whopping $8 per car — a 167% increase from the $3 we were paying in 2003.
SF News New Year's Eve Constitutional: Search Called Off for Missing Tahoe Skier The search for missing Tahoe resident and Northstar employee Rory Angelotta has been suspended, Oakland police made a second arrest in a murder by Lake Merritt, and a 400-person NYE yacht party in the Bay has local experts worried.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Seeks Suspects In Mission Car Assault Oakland's 'Jeopardy!' champ makes more history, Litquake's favorite laundromat has permanently closed, and an intentional Mission District hit-and-run has left a man seriously injured.
SF News SoCal Couple Offering Reward for Return of Beloved Cat Minnelusa, Who Was Stolen In Car Burglary In SF A smash-and-grab car burglar in San Francisco likely got a prize they didn't want last Monday in the form of a one-year-old tabby cat in a cat-carrier. Now, the cat's parents desperately want her back.
SF News Serial Armed Robbery Suspect From Stockton Charged With Nov. Murder of Young Woman at Lake Merritt A 33-year-old man from Stockton has been charged with the November 11 murder and attempted robbery of 22-year-old Devani Aleman Sanchez, on a street next to Lake Merritt — and he's been connected to multiple other armed robberies.
SF News A Whole Lot of December's COVID Cases In SF Are In the Marina San Francisco's whitest neighborhood, the Marina, is experiencing its highest COVID case rate of the pandemic this month — and in a turnaround from last year's trends, it's currently seeing the city's lion's share of new cases.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Morro Bay Shark Attack Victim ID'd As Sacramento Man A body found last week in the Napa River has been confirmed to be that of a missing Napa woman, the boogie-boarder in the fatal shark attack in Morro Bay has been identified, and the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial is now off until Jan. 3.
Business & Tech Apple Reportedly Doles Out Special Six-Figure Bonuses to Engineers to Keep Them From Getting Poached By Meta Apple is reportedly giving out unusually big bonuses in the form of stock to select groups of engineers in the company, in an effort to stop some attrition that is happening to Facebook/Meta.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Can Buy Fresh Local Dungeness Crab Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday marks the official — very late — start to Dungeness crab fishing season for the coastal waters off the San Francisco Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. And that mean's today you'll also get to buy crab directly from crab fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Castro Valley Man Drives 15 Hours, Via Las Vegas, to Avoid Tahoe Snow Traffic A Bay Area man and his girlfriend took the really long way home after spending Christmas weekend in the Tahoe area, in order to avoid horrendous traffic and closed freeways due to the snow.
SF News [Update] SF and Other Bay Area Counties Begin Rescinding Mask-Order Exceptions Amid Omicron Surge You'll need to put your masks back on in gyms, offices, and places of worship in San Francisco and Contra Costa counties, and other counties with similar exceptions in place since October are signaling similar moves.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Search Continues For Truckee Skier Who Disappeared Extreme weather conditions have hampered a search for a missing skier in Tahoe, the SFPD is investigating a home-invasion robbery of a 90-year-old woman, and more venues cancel NYE events.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails Become Fully Legal Statewide on Jan. 1, But With a Bunch of New Rules That Make the Law Pointless On Saturday, the new California law making to-go cocktails a fully legal and legit thing statewide will take effect — and it will stay in effect for five years, pending extensions.
SF News Married Couple in Their 60s Identified as Victims of Flood Waters in Millbrae The two people who tragically died last week when their car became submerged in rapidly rising floodwaters beneath a Caltrain overpass in Millbrae have been identified as a married couple who lived nearby.
SF News SF Sees Four Consecutive Record-Breaking Days of COVID Cases; Hospitalizations Rise Across State The last four daily totals of new COVID infections from the San Francisco Department of Public Health are higher than any others previously in the pandemic, as Omicron rages across the region. But should we be as anxious about this as in previous surges?
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Snow Fell In Northern Napa Today Snow fell in Angwin and some other lowish-lying places around the Bay this morning, lots of people remain stranded in Tahoe due to snow, and some bars around the Castro have temporarily closed due to Omicron worries.
SF News This Is Officially the Wettest Fall/Early Winter In San Francisco Since 1983 Thanks to atmospheric rivers and cyclone remnants pummeling the NorCal coast since October 1, this is officially the wettest water year to date since 1983 — and this is great news for the drought.
