SF News Arrest Made In Alamo Square Hit-and-Run, Victim Expected to Survive A hit-and-run last Wednesday next to Alamo Square Park shocked the neighborhood and gravely injured an 88-year-old woman. Now, an arrest has been made.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Newsom's Cow Hollow Wine Shop Keeps Getting Broken Into Barbara Boxer tells the story of her mugging in Oakland, a traffic stop in Vacaville turned tragic, and Gavin Newsom's Cow Hollow wine and spirits shop has been broken into four times so far this year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Solano County Health Officer Still A Maverick Solano County Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas continues to push back on mask mandates, recall candidate Kevin Faulconer also hates mask mandates, and Gov. Newsom has pulled his kids out of a summer camp because it has no mask mandate.
SF News Whipped Up By Winds, Dixie Fire Continues Destroying Buildings In Indian Falls The Dixie Fire, which despite its massive burn scar has so far been mostly burning through uninhabited forest in Butte and Plumas counties, continues raging in the area of Indian Falls, and the full extent of the damage won't be clear for a day or two.
SF News Real-Life 'Rosie the Riveter,' Phyllis Gould, Among First Six Women Hired at Richmond Shipyard In WWII, Dies at 99 A pioneer among independent women in the blue-collar workforce in America, one-time WWII-era welder Phyllis Gould, who went on to fight for national recognition for herself an other "Rosies," died last week at her home in Fairfax. She was 99.
SF News CDC Confirms That Viral Loads In Vaccinated People With Delta May Be Infectious, So Masks Are Necessary The CDC reversed course Monday, citing new data, and said it now recommends indoor masks for the vaccinated in all areas of the country where COVID infections are surging.
SF News Debate About Vaccines Shifts to Individual Freedoms vs. Civic Duty, As Anger About New Surge Rises Is the question about getting or not getting a vaccine one of civil liberties and relative freedom of choice? Or does our duty to each other and to tamping down a pandemic trump everything else?
SF Politics New Poll Finds Newsom In Trouble Among 'Likely' Recall Voters, Indicating Turnout Will Be Major Factor A poll finds that "likely" voters in the September recall are nearly evenly split on recalling Newsom, and now he's getting tough in his talk trying to motivate voters by comparing the Republicans behind the recall to those pushing vaccine misinformation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Poor Visibility From Wildfire Smoke Maybe Caused Truckee Plane Crash A plane that crashed in Truckee on Monday killed all four people onboard, Singapore's Delta variant surge among the vaccinated may hold clues for the Bay Area, and the CDC is expected to tell all vaccinated people to put masks back on indoors.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Congestion Pricing In Downtown SF Still on the Table A brush fire near the Berkeley Marina on Sunday was likely sparked by outdoor cooking at a homeless encampment, congestion pricing is still being studied to alleviate SF traffic, and "long COVID" is now going to be covered under federal disability law.
SF News Former Senator Barbara Boxer Got Assaulted and Mugged In Oakland Former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer was reportedly shoved to the ground and robbed of her cell phone near Oakland's Jack London Square on Monday afternoon.
SF News Health Officials Urge People to Avoid the COVID Hot Spot of Las Vegas: 'You Will Get It and Bring It Back' Public health officials and state and city leaders in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere are urging their residents not to travel to Las Vegas right now amid a growing surge in the Delta variant and little or no mask mandates at Vegas casinos and restaurants.
Arts & Entertainment SF's Museum of Ice Cream Is Dunzo One of SF's first big Instagram-trap "museums," the Museum of Ice Cream, has scooped its last scoop and swept up its last plastic sprinkle.
SF News Newly Unsealed Court Documents Suggest Accused Kristin Smart Killer 'Hunted' Her For Months Ahead of the start of a preliminary hearing in the murder trial of Paul Flores, the San Luis Obispo County court has unsealed the prosecution's statement of evidence in the case, and it's fairly damning.
SF News 344 Accidental Overdose Deaths Happened In SF So Far in 2021, Most of Those From Fentanyl The opioid crisis persists in San Francisco, and a new report confirms how dire the situation, with 344 accidental overdose deaths so far this year, and thousands of lives likely saved by Narcan.
SF News Monsoonal Moisture Brings Small Chance of Lightning and Rain to Bay Area Seasonal monsoonal moisture from the Southwest is moving across California today, bringing with it some chance of thunder and lightning, most likely concentrated closer to the Sierra and in the North Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: More Mask Orders Coming, Including From CDC The Dixie Fire prompts more evacuations in Plumas County, a reckless driver crashed into multiple parked cars in the Richmond, and the CDC is considering revised mask guidance for vaccinated people in indoor spaces.
SF News SF Just Recorded As Many New COVID Cases In a Day As In Mid-January New cases of COVID-19 are popping up in San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area in what is clearly a fourth wave of the pandemic, and everyone is clearly anxious and exhausted.
SF News Disabled Woman Tells Harrowing Tale of Mentally Ill Man Who Walked Into Her Corona Heights Home and Wouldn't Leave A disabled woman who can not walk due to multiple sclerosis says that 39-year-old Brandon Paillett walked into her apartment on Roosevelt Way in the Corona Heights neighborhood near the Castro on Tuesday night, muttering to himself, and refused to leave.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Much-Delayed Hayes Valley Trader Joe's Wins Approval at Last A Trader Joe's that's been in the planning stages pretty much forever for the new building at 555 Fulton just received its final approval from the SF Planning Commission.
SF News [Update] Elderly Woman Seriously Injured Following Alamo Square Hit and Run An 88-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle that then fled the scene near Alamo Square Park on Wednesday, July 21, and now an arrest has been made in the case.
SF News Once Again, Data Shows Pandemic Exodus Has Swung the Other Way and Everyone's Moving Back to SF Postal service data shows net migration out of the city is back to pre-pandemic levels, but a lot of people are still moving around.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eight-Story Condo Development With Replacement Grubstake Diner on Ground Floor Wins Planning Approval The Planning Commission took up the project at 1525 Pine Street on Thursday, six years after it was first proposed, and the vote was 4-2 in favor of approval. Meanwhile, the beloved Grubstake lives on.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gilroy Garlic Festival Returns This Weekend as Drive-Through Event Two years after a mass shooting at the event that killed three people and injured 17 others, the Gilroy Garlic Festival is returning in an altered, pandemic form, as a drive-through.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Missing Richmond Teen Found Dead Seven vaccinated Stanford students have tested positive and are symptomatic for COVID, the SFPD is seeking help finding a car that hit an 88-year-old woman on Wednesday, and the Olympics opening ceremony was met with protest.
