SF News Day Around the Bay: ACLU Sues East Bay School District Over Special Ed A total of 8.7 million Californians returned mail-in ballots before election day, SF has ordered a halt until further notice on the Millennium Tower fix, and the ACLU is suing the Pittsburg Unified School District over its treatment of disabled students of color.
SF News California Becomes One of Only Three States to Exit the CDC's Worst Category for COVID Transmission In this summer's Delta variant surge, California has succeeded in being one of just three states to no longer be in the "high" transmission category for COVID-19, along with Vermont and Connecticut.
SF News Mills College-Northeastern University Merger Approved By Mills Board; Merger to Take Effect Next July Oakland's historic Mills College will live on as Mills College at Northeastern University, and a vote by the Mills College Board of Trustees solidified the merger with the Boston-based university on Tuesday morning.
SF News Lightning-Caused Fires Threaten California's Giant Sequoias In Two National Parks Two wildfires are threatening two national parks in central California that are home to the biggest trees on the planet, giant sequoias. Sequoia National Park was shut down Monday and its staff evacuated due to the approaching KNP Complex fires — known separately as the Colony and Paradise fires.
SF News Woman Dragged By Train to Her Death at Powell Street BART With Dog Leash Caught In Door A woman was dragged into the BART tracks and killed Monday afternoon in a tragic incident involving a dog leash that was wrapped around her waist.
SF Politics How Soon Can We Call This Election and Move On? Hopefully — hopefully! — the massive number of mail-in ballots that counties have already begun processing will yield results Tuesday night that will put this recall to bed, one way or another... but more than likely one way.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Human Skeletal Remains Found In Point Reyes A federal judge questioned the PG&E troubleman who first spotted the Dixie Fire for over two hours Monday, QAnon believers think the recall election is being rigged, and the city of Pleasanton has ended its weekend outdoor dining program on its Main Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatality Leads to BART Delays President Biden spoke about climate change at stops in Idaho and California today, BART was experiencing major delays after a fatality at Powell Street, and Newsom continues to look like he will remain governor after tomorrow.
Arts & Entertainment Chase Center Announces Vaccine Requirement For All Warriors Games and Concerts You won't be able to show proof of a negative COVID test to attend Chase Center events this fall — you will have to show proof that you are fully vaccinated.
SF News Is Chalking Tires By Meter Maids Unconstitutional? One Lawsuit Filed In SF Says Yes A wave of lawsuits against cities over the practice of marking car tires with chalk to catch violators of time-restricted parking zones has come to San Francisco, and one woman is suing the city for $50 million over the practice.
SF News Two Men Killed On I-80 In Berkeley While Arguing Over Crash Two men who exited their cars to argue about a traffic incident early Sunday morning on I-80 in the East Bay were struck and killed by a passing vehicle, the driver of which was trying to swerve around their stopped cars.
Arts & Entertainment The New Name For Squaw Valley? Palisades Tahoe A year after the Squaw Valley Ski Resort announced it would be dropping its racist and sexist name, the corporation has revealed what its new name will be: Palisades Tahoe.
SF News Now Rose McGowan Is Campaigning For Larry Elder, Claims Newsom's Wife Tried to Silence Her About Weinstein Actress Rose McGowan participated in a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder over the weekend in which she made claims about Jennifer Siebel Newsom calling her on behalf of Harvey Weinstein's lawyer.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Biden Joins Newsom In SoCal Ahead of Recall President Joe Biden will be in SoCal campaigning with Newsom today, the PG&E worker who first spotted the Dixie Fire is being called before a judge, and a SETI telescope array is now being threatened by the Dixie Fire.
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art to Open in San Francisco's Dogpatch Next Year San Francisco is getting an Institute of Contemporary Art — a new contemporary art museum without a permanent collection — in the already artsy Dogpatch neighborhood, and it's being partially bankrolled by the same folks behind the Minnesota Street Project.
SF News Stunning Cole Valley 'Tree House' Sells For $5.6 Million — $2 Million Over Asking A 1970s-era home tucked up near the end of Stanyan Street in Cole Valley — on a hill with sweeping city and Bay views — just sold for $2.1 million over its asking price after receiving 15 offers.
SF News BART Now Has Its Own Homelessness 'Czar' Technically his title is senior manager of social service partnerships, but Daniel Cooperman is now BART's point person for humanely addressing homelessness in stations and on trains.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Century-Old Giusti's Restaurant Destroyed By Fire In the Delta A 100+-year-old restaurant in the Delta, Giusti's, burned to the ground on Thursday, and the owner thinks the cause may have been a propane water heater.
SF News Over 100 Lightning Strikes Hit Bay Area; No Major Fires Detected So Far This week's lightning scare became an actual lightning storm on Thursday night, and around 110 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes were recorded across the Bay Area during a time of extreme fire danger.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Holmes Trial Delayed By Juror's COVID Exposure Nine members of a family including two small children were injured in a DUI crash in Oakland, Elizabeth Holmes's trial has been delayed by a juror's COVID exposure, and local newsman Wayne Freedman is retiring after 53 years in news.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It's Been One Year Since the Sky Turned Orange The Red Flag warning for much of the Bay Area starts now with lightning possible, today is the one-year anniversary of the day the skies turned orange in SF, and Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ is suing Texas over that abortion law.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Horn Barbecue and State Bird Chefs Named to Food & Wine's Prestigious Best New Chefs List Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs list for 2021 just dropped, and two of the 11 chefs hail from the Bay Area: Horn Barbecue's Matt Horn, and State Bird Provisions Chef de Cuisine Gaby Maeda.
SF News Smoke Alarm and Power Outage at Cable Car Barn Leads to Shutdown of All Cable Car Service An evacuation due to a smoke alarm at the SFMTA's cable car barn, and a subsequent power outage, led to a suspension of service on all cable car lines Thursday afternoon.
SF News New Tall Skyscraper Planned Near Salesforce Tower Moves Forward With Groundbreaking Plans Despite Everything The developer behind a 61-story mixed-use tower slated to go in at 550 Howard Street announced plans today for an early 2022 groundbreaking, delivering solid evidence that developers remain very optimistic about post-pandemic San Francisco.
SF Politics Recology's SF Companies Charged With Fraud In Nuru Scandal, Agree to Pay $36M In Penalties to Feds San Francisco's trash and recycling company has admitted to bribing former SF Public Works Director Mohammad Nuru to the tune of $900,000, and it does so just as the federal government was charging it with conspiracy to commit honest services fraud.
