SF News Boogie-Boarder Killed By Great White Shark on Central Coast On Christmas Eve, a 31-year-old man was killed in an apparent shark attack while in the water in Morro Bay. It's the first fatal shark attack of 2021 in the U.S.
SF News Low Temp In San Francisco Could Dip Below 40 Degrees Tuesday For the First Time Since 2017 Some very cold air is descending on the Bay Area this week ahead of another storm system, and all signs point to Tuesday morning likely being the chilliest that San Francisco has seen in four years.
SF News Daily New COVID Cases In SF the Highest Recorded Since January While the data from the city remains five days behind, San Francisco is experiencing a COVID surge right now that will likely eclipse last winter's in sheer numbers — but hopefully not in hospitalizations or deaths.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Airlines Continue Canceling Flights Due to COVID The Tahoe area continues to be mostly impassable due to snow, a power outage early this morning halted BART service to SFO, and airlines continue to cancel hundreds of flights per day due to COVID-related staffing shortages.
SF News Oakland Marks 134th Homicide With Shooting at Lake Merritt on Christmas Eve Around 8:15 p.m. Friday, Oakland police responded to a cul-de-sac near Lake Merritt that has been the scene of multiple violent incidents this year, and found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
SF News Christmas Eve Constitutional: Bay Area Hospitals Prep For Omicron Surge I-680 was shut down last night due to a freeway shooting, a teacher's union in the East Bay threatens to strike, and Bay Area hospitals say they are prepared for a looming Omicron surge — even though hospitalizations are likely to be fewer than last year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: United Cancels Over 165 Christmas Eve Flights Due to Omicron The Elizabeth Holmes jury still had no verdict today and will continue deliberating Monday, a body found in Napa is likely that of a missing woman, and United Airlines canceled over 100 flights Friday due to Omicron cases among employees.
SF News Sacramento Woman Pleads Guilty to Knocking Out Flight Attendant's Teeth In one of the — grossly — many cases of assaults on flight attendants during this pandemic because Americans don't know how to behave, a Sacramento woman has pleaded guilty to punching a flight attendant on a Southwest flight in May.
SF News Two Found Dead In Flood-Submerged Vehicle On Low-Lying Street In Millbrae Two people were found deceased Thursday morning inside a vehicle that became submerged in rapidly rising waters on a Millbrae Street, amid heavy rain.
SF News San Francisco Offering Drop-In Booster Shots at Four Locations As Omicron appears to be driving a spike in daily new cases in the city and across the country, the San Francisco Department of Public Health is shouting from the rooftops to get everyone a booster shot.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Big Rig Falls Off East Bay Overpass A big rig plunged off an overpass onto a road below in Lafayette this morning, a Jewish house of worship was possibly torched in San Jose, and Oakland Airport was already very busy first thing this morning.
SF News Universal Cafe Closes After 27 Years In the Mission Two beloved SF brunch spots that date back to the 1990s have taken their leave in the last week, and this one will hurt for longtime residents of a neighborhood that was once briefly called Multimedia Gulch.
SF News Omicron Almost Certainly to Blame As San Francisco Cases Surge; Two Studies Suggest Variant Is Less Severe As opposed to last year's holiday season, there is a mix of good and bad news with this Omicron surge, even though the virus seems to be spreading at a very fast clip.
SF News Arrests Made In Murder of TV News Security Guard Kevin Nishita, Third Suspect Still at Large Two individuals have been arrested in the Nov. 24 fatal shooting of TV news security guard and former police officer Kevin Nishita, and a third suspect is still being sought.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zuni Cafe to Start Requiring Booster Proof For Indoor Dining Next Week In a sign of things to come in San Francisco, Zuni Cafe announced that it is going to begin requiring not just full vaccination but also proof of a booster shot for indoor dining starting next week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Verdict In Holmes Trial Likely Coming Before Christmas The rain we're getting is from a "decaying cyclone" over the Pacific, the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial could return a verdict Thursday, and the last Michael Vick dog-fight ring dog has died in Oakland.
SF News Tenderloin Camera Shop Was Front For Retail Theft Fencing Operation, According to DA's Office San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that two indictments have been filed and five arrest warrants written in a two-year sting operation targeting organized retail theft in the city.
SF News New UCSF Parnassus Hospital Design Unveiled By Architects of deYoung Museum UCSF has released a new rendering for its proposed 15-story hospital addition at its revamped Parnassus campus, designed by Herzog and de Meuron, and it's quite pretty.
SF News Holiday Party In Larkspur Leads to 28 COVID Infections, Omicron Suspected A holiday party in Marin County ten days ago where all attendees were vaccinated led to an outbreak of at least 28 cases of COVID, and health officials believe the Omicron variant was to blame.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Mall Shooting Leads to Chaos, Looting A shooting at San Jose's Oakridge Mall led to chaos Monday but no victim has been located, Oakland police are forming a new policing district to combat violence, and the NHL is pausing the season from Wednesday to Sunday due to COVID.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Omicron Already Represents 73% of U.S. Cases The CDC says Omicron is quickly overtaking Delta as the dominant variant in the U.S., a mall shooting in San Jose prompts shelter-in-place order, and jurors are still out in the Elizabeth Holmes trial.
SF News Omicron Community Spread Apparent In 3 Mission Cases; Restaurants In SF and Oakland Temporarily Close Out of Caution A likely deluge of new COVID cases is on the horizon for the Bay Area, due to the Omicron variant and despite widespread vaccination.
SF News 6.2M Earthquake Strikes Off Humboldt Coast, Felt In Parts of Bay Area A 6.2M earthquake struck at 12:10 p.m. PT, with an epicenter in the Pacific at a depth of 9.3 km, 38 km west of Petrolia, in Humboldt County. And shaking was felt in many parts of the Bay Area.
SF News Enjoy This Dry Day — Lots More Rain on Its Way, and Much Snow Up in Tahoe This is the last dry day for the Bay Area for the next week or so, and it is now guaranteed to be a white — maybe even white-out — Christmas up in Tahoe.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Showing No Signs of Omicron Slowdown A woman was fatally shot Sunday at an East Oakland homeless encampment, Omicron is not deterring holiday travelers through SFO, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker both have COVID.
