SF News If You Got the Moderna Vaccine, You're Less Likely to End Up Hospitalized With COVID Than Those Who Got Pfizer or J&J The Centers for Disease Control has just released results from a head-to-head study of all three COVID-19 vaccines available in the U.S., and Moderna's comes out on top when it comes to effectiveness.
SF News Some Neighbors Bristle as Former McDonald's Site In Haight Goes From Tent Village to Homeless Drop-In Center The notorious former McDonald's property at 730 Stanyan hasn't exactly been less of nuisance to the neighborhood since the McDonald's was torn down last year.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Mayor London Breed Seen Maskless At Club Mayor London Breed was out with friends at the Black Cat on Thursday night (maskless), Contra Costa County is likely to begin requiring vaccines for all school kids 12 and up, and VTA light rail service comes back in full in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Signs Housing Density Bills PG&E bills are likely to go up soon as the company struggles to pay for wildfires it's caused, Newsom signed a pair of housing density bills that came out of Wiener's SB50, and the former Holiday Inn on 8th Street in SoMa will get some micro-unit housing.
SF Politics Mayor and Board of Supervisors Compete to Punish SF Dept. of Building Inspection The San Francisco Board of Supervisors did some grilling of the acting head of the Department of Building Inspection (DBI) on Tuesday, and Mayor London Breed followed up on Monday with her own executive order demanding changes to the department and its permit tracking system.
Arts & Entertainment Metallica Doing 'Secret' Show at The Independent Thursday Night Bay Area legends Metallica are doing a "secret" show today at The Independent, and as of just before 3 p.m. the line was apparently not too bad.
SF Politics Defense Attorneys Press Biden Administration to Drop Gun Charges Against Jose Ines Garcia Zarate The undocumented man whose alleged "momentary possession" of a loaded firearm resulted in the 2015 death of Kate Steinle on a pier in San Francisco remains behind bars on federal gun charges, and two of the public defenders who represented him in court say it's about time he's let out.
SF News As the Colony Fire Approaches Giant Forest, Sequoias Are Wrapped In Foil The trunks of giant sequoia trees in Sequoia National Forest are being wrapped in aluminum foil insulation today to help protect them from the oncoming flames of the Colony Fire, which continues burning in the direction of Giant Forest.
SF News North Bay to See Much-Needed Rainfall This Weekend Fire season is far from over, but a sprinkling of rain Saturday night into Sunday will do a little good for the North Bay.
SF News Hundreds In South Lake Tahoe Give Heroes' Sendoff to Caldor Fire Firefighters With the Caldor Fire now 71% contained and the city of South Lake Tahoe deemed safe to return to, some firefighters were packing up to leave town in recent days, and a large group of city residents gathered to cheer for them on Tuesday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Water Main Break Floods Crocker-Amazon A water main break on Wednesday flooded part of the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood, an autopsy reveals that a death in Berkeley was from a hit-and-run, and the Chase Center hosted its first full-capacity event in 18 months: a Tame Impala show.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Men Swept Out to Sea In Santa Cruz In Past Three Days Two men have died after being swept out to sea from Santa Cruz beaches in the past three days, BART may step up enforcement on pets after Monday's tragic death, and Newsom continued his victory lap in Oakland today.
SF News Northern Sonoma County to Get Another Tribal Casino Members of the Koi Nation, a tribe now federally recognized as part of the southeastern Pomo people of Sonoma County, are planning to build a $600 million hotel and casino in an unincorporated part of the county north of Santa Rosa.
SF Politics Caitlyn Jenner's Celebrity Got Her 1% of the Vote, and She Says She 'Can't Believe' So Many People Voted Against the Recall It's worth noting that for all her wealth and fame, Caitlyn could only garner 1% of the vote in a statewide contest in which some 5 million people voted on replacements for Gavin Newsom.
SF News NXIVM Sex Cult Defendant Allison Mack Checks In For Three-Year Stay at Dublin Correctional Facility for Women Following on the heels of other celebrity inmates in recent years, former "Smallville" actress Allison Mack will be doing her jail time in the East Bay following her conviction in the creepy NXIVM sex cult case.
Arts & Entertainment More Single-Day and 3-Day Tickets for Outside Lands Go On Sale Thursday Organizers of Outside Lands are doing a limited ticket release on Thursday morning for all those of you who never bought tickets when you had the chance — and weren't holding 2020 tickets that you never got to use.
SF Politics 78% of Bay Area Voted 'No' In Recall A vast majority of Bay Area residents voted against the recall on Tuesday, and we cast 27% of the total "No" votes in the state, and counting.
SF Politics Right-Wing Loon Larry Elder Had Over 45% of Recall Vote, Which Means He'll Probably Run Against Newsom In 2022 Elder's wide lead in this election means the GOP will have a Trumpian mess on its hands when it tries to float some other more moderate candidate to run against Newsom next year.
SF News Humpday Headlines: How Many Points Did Newsom Prevail By? The CHP is seeking help finding a hit-and-run driver who killed a pedestrian on 101 in SF, two landlords in Oakland are being made to pay $3.9M to the city, and the recall election results were even better than expected for Newsom.
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.
