SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Afghan Community Devastated By Taliban Takeover The Bay Area's large Afghan community is watching news from Kabul in horror, evacuations were ordered in the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, and the mayor of San Jose is calling for the sheriff to resign.
SF News SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe? San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?
SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News La Niña Watch Is Officially On This Fall, and That Could Be Disastrous for the Drought We are looking at back-to-back La Niña winters, and while forecasters tried to keep us optimistic about the chances of average rainfall last winter, we all know how that turned out. So we should brace ourselves for another year of this drought.
SF News San Francisco Only Got More Childless In the Last Decade For several decades now, San Francisco has had one of the lowest percentages of school-age children and teens of any major city in the country. And the latest numbers from the 2020 Census show that SF's youth population has only decreased.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Kicks Off 'Vote No' Campaign In San Francisco With one month left before California votes on whether or not to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and days before people start receiving their mail-in ballots — if you haven't received yours already — Newsom is doing a four-day campaign tour encouraging voters to "Vote No."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Vaccinated Person Dies From COVID In Marin Marin County recorded its first COVID death in a vaccinated person who was 75, the Oakland hills hit-and-run suspect has been charged with attempted murder, and a father and son face jail time for using fake vaccination cards to vacation in Hawaii.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Prison Inmates Can't Have Pot A suspect has been arrested in last weekend's road-rage incident in the Oakland hills, the CA Supreme Court just ruled that prison inmates can't have marijuana under the state's recreational law, and Reddit just raised $410 million in fresh funding.
SF News Three Arrested In Solano County For Oakland Teen's Murder Authorities in Solano County arrested three people in connection with the death of an Oakland teenager whose body was found Tuesday in a ditch in Dixon.
SF News Census Data Release Shows US and California Growing More Diverse — and San Francisco Gained 90,000 People The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday released a new batch of data from the 2020 Census to be used for the purposes of congressional redistricting, and it contains the first data on race and ethnicity to be released so far.
Business & Tech Facebook Now Pushing Off Return to Office Until January Facebook announced Thursday that its workers in U.S. offices, and some international workers, don't have to return to their desks in person until January 2022.
SF News East Bay Woman Sues After BART Police Forcibly Detain Her For Fare Evasion An East Bay woman has filed a civil rights lawsuit over a December 31, 2019 incident in which she was forcibly detained and bloodied by BART police officers over fare evasion at San Leandro's Bayfair Station.
SF News San Francisco Makes Vaccination Mandatory for Entering All Restaurants, Bars, and Gyms San Francisco issued a new public health order Thursday that makes proof of full vaccination mandatory for entering a variety of indoor businesses, becoming the first major U.S. city to institute such a rule.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF's Delta Surge Is Worse Than New York's Some people in Novato are protesting mask and vaccine mandates, SF's Delta variant surge is worse than New York's and Chicago's, and Google has launched a tool to show employees how much of a salary cut they will take if they work from home permanently.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kate Steinle Shooting Suspect Again Ordered to Get Mental Evaluation A second suspect has been arrested in the 2020 shooting of Jace Young, Oakland is bringing the CHP in to do more law enforcement, and Jose Ines Garcia Zarate has again been ordered to get a new mental health evaluation.
SF Politics SF Dept. of Public Works Acting Director Jumps Ship, Takes Job at BART Alaric Degrafinried, the acting director of San Francisco's troubled Department of Public Works, had once said he planned to vie for the permanent title of head of the department. But in the 18 months since he took over, he changed his mind.
SF News Images From Greenville, the Latest California Town Decimated By Wildfire New satellite images and on-the-ground photos from Greenville, the Northern California town of about 1,000 people that was leveled by the flames of the Dixie Fire last week, paint a sad but increasingly familiar picture of a wildfire's wrath.
Arts & Entertainment Taylor Mac's 'Joy and Pandemic' Premiere Postponed at Magic Theatre; Berkeley Rep Delays Reopening Two Bay Area theaters announced surge-related postponements today, joining a parade of events and performers that are moving dates further into the future due to the ongoing pandemic.
SF News Active Shooter Drill In Sunset District Creates Misunderstanding, SFPD Descends on Treasure Island The San Francisco Fire Department apparently created confusion Wednesday for the San Francisco Police Department with an active shooter drill they were conducting.
SF News More Monsoonal Moisture Heads to NorCal, Possibility of Lightning Still Remote An area of high pressure over the southwestern U.S. will be sending warmer temperatures our way in the next few days, particularly in the inland parts of the Bay Area. And meteorologists are closely monitoring the situation as some more monsoonal moisture moves our way.
SF News SF Animal Care & Control Seeks Public's Help In Identifying Woman Who's Been Feeding Coyotes on Bernal Hill SF Animal Care & Control put out an APB of sorts on Wednesday morning, seeking the public's help in shaming and bringing to justice a woman who apparently thinks it's fun and helpful to feed wild coyotes.
SF News Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Top 1,000 For First Time Since February Hospitalizations from COVID-19 continue climbing across California, and in the Bay Area, the number of hospitalized patients with serious cases rose above 1,000 for the first time since mid-February.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Over 1 Million People Have Already Gotten Booster Shots A 35-year-old man was shot in Oakland while running from robbers, a Sonoma State lecturer has been arrested for a series of arson fires near the Dixie Fire, and the CDC says 1.1 million people have already gotten unauthorized booster shots of vaccines.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron Refinery Flaring Again A boy of unknown age was shot on Stockton Street in Union Square Tuesday afternoon, the Chevron refinery sent plumes of black smoke over the East Bay, and a new UCSF study connects COVID with preterm births in pregnant women.
Arts & Entertainment Stevie Nicks Is Canceling Her BottleRock Appearance, Citing COVID Concerns Iconic singer and songwriter Stevie Nicks, whose upcoming appearance at BottleRock Napa Valley was likely a major draw for many ticket holders, announced Tuesday that she is bowing out of the festival and all of her remaining scheduled shows this year.
