SF Politics West Portal Stalking Case In Which Charges Were Dropped Provides More Fodder For SF Criminal Justice Critics A case involving a mentally ill man and a 15-year-old girl who says he stalked, grabbed, and generally terrified her one afternoon last year in West Portal is giving the Chronicle's Heather Knight more reason to rally critics of SF's criminal justice system.
Business & Tech Uber Adds Grocery Delivery In SF, Including From Safeway and Andronico's Uber is pushing further into the world of delivery with a major expansion of grocery delivery services this week, including in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Biden Backs Down Slightly From Saying Facebook Is 'Killing People' With Vaccine Misinformation President Joe Biden attempted to de-escalate a war of words he started last week with Facebook, walking back a statement he made about the platform "killing people" due to its failure to curb misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
SF News First Weekend of Latest Mask Recommendation Leads to Confusion, Varied Response By Bay Area Businesses After a month of no masks in bars and restaurants — for patrons at least — the boomeranging guidance made for some awkward situations over the weekend.
SF News PG&E Equipment May Be to Blame For Sparking Dixie Fire Near Where Camp Fire Began The Dixie Fire now burning in Butte and Plumas counties has grown to over 30,000 acres since starting last week, and PG&E is now admitting that its equipment may once again be to blame for the initial sparks.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Early Morning Fire Damages Three West Oakland Homes The Bay Area dodged the dry lightning bullet and the Red Flag Warning has been lifted, a three-alarm fire broke out in an alleged squatter dwelling in West Oakland, and a U.S. women's team gymnast has tested positive for COVID.
Arts & Entertainment Another Beloved El Rio Party, Daytime Realness, Triumphantly Returns This Weekend Daytime Realness was still in the midst of its November-to-March hiatus when the pandemic hit last winter. So now, for the first time in 21 months, this popular queer party at El Rio is returning on Sunday with its first ever pre-sale tickets.
SF Politics New Group 'Shine on SF' Is Working to Clean Things, Install 'Golden Trees,' and Push for Civic Pride A new group that formed before the pandemic began but is just now getting its gears in motion is aiming to revive San Franciscans' pride in their city, after at least a decade in which the overall consensus has been that everything here is terrible.
SF News Coyote That Charged Toddlers In Golden Gate Park Was Euthanized An aggressive coyote that several mothers reported had gotten too close for comfort with their small children in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, has been euthanized.
SF News Bay Area Health Officers Urge Residents to Wear Masks Again in Indoor Public Spaces, Voluntarily A day after Los Angeles reinstituted its mask mandate, a coalition of Bay Area health officers including those representing San Francisco and Alameda counties issued a joint statement urging residents to wear their masks again voluntarily.
SF News Napa Man With 'White Privilege Card' and Accomplice Charged With Plotting to Blow Up Democratic Headquarters 45-year-old Ian Benjamin Rogers of Napa and 37-year-old Jarrod Copeland of Vallejo are in some hot water over their Trump-fueled rage following the 2020 election.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Standoff With Heavily Armed Man In Berkeley Ends Peacefully A three-hour standoff with an armed and apparently intoxicated man in his car ended peacefully in Berkeley, Aaron Peskin is trying to save laundromats, and more restaurants are adding "wellness fees" to checks.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NYT Says All the Tech Workers Are Coming Back Now A woman was rescued in Oakland after a Tinder date turned kidnapping/assault situation, a COVID outbreak at a Santa Rosa homeless shelter also hit the vaccinated, and the NY Times now has a piece about the tech "exodus" folk who are all coming back to SF.
SF News Thunderstorms and Dry Lightning Possible Sunday and Monday, Igniting Wildfire Fears The Bay Area may see some rare summer lightning again early next week. And while it does not yet look like a large lightning event like the one that sparked multiple massive wildfires in the region last August, it doesn't bode well.
SF News Campbell Police May Have Just Intercepted the Bay Area's Next Mass Shooter By Accident Police in Campbell arrested a suspected prowler on July 9 and found that his vehicle was full of weaponry, drugs, and a journal in which he allegedly talked about eradicating Black, Latinx, and Jewish people.
SF News Showdown Looms Between SF Board of Supervisors and Sunset Residents Angrily Opposed to Affordable Housing One of San Francisco's least-dense neighborhoods, where the city probably should have been pushing for more multifamily and affordable housing for decades, is the site of the latest showdown between city leaders and NIMBY residents.
SF News SF Woman Who Coughed and Said She Had COVID While Robbing a Walgreens Found Guilty A crime that was arguably over-charged in the early pandemic has resulted in a possible 20-year federal sentence for one woman — a steep price to pay for stealing some stuff from a Walgreens, which as we've seen, is a pretty common occurrence.
SF News Naturopathic Doctor In Napa Allegedly Sold Fake Vaccine Cards to Go With Her Fake COVID Immunization Pills A Napa woman who told patients at her naturopathic and homeopathic medicine practice that the available COVID-19 vaccines had "toxic" ingredients in them now faces federal charges for falsifying vaccination cards. And she's the first person in the country to face federal charges for such a scheme.
SF News Dixie Fire Scorches Over 2,200 Acres Near Paradise In Under Two Days A wildfire that expanded rapidly on Wednesday is burning very near the burn scar of the 2018 Camp Fire, just east of the origin point of that fire, but so far is not threatening any homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Lesbian Activist Sally Gearhart Dies at 90 Three shootings in East Oakland left one person dead this morning, more details are emerging about the arrest of former 49er Richard Sherman in Seattle, and longtime Bay Area lesbian activist and educator Sally Gearhart has died.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Team USA Women's Gymnastics Squad Leaves SFO for Tokyo More from the VTA shooter's notebook seized by border agents, UC Berkeley is paying the city $82.6M to settle lawsuits over construction plans, and Californians can expect another $600 stimulus check.
Business & Tech Facebook Is Dismantling CrowdTangle Team Because It Showed the Platform to Be a Right-Wing Echo Chamber CrowdTangle, the analytics tool for social media posts that Facebook acquired five years ago, may not be long for this world, and its mostly independent team within Facebook is now being broken up.
SF News SF's Worst Walgreens Sees Fistfight With Unruly Suspect, Security Guard Injured What has long been San Francisco's worst Walgreens at 9th and Market was the site of a confrontation with an unruly man Wednesday that ended with a security guard going to the hospital.
SF News Limited Late-Night BART Service Returns Thursday to Saturday Through July — Here Are the Details BART is reminding everyone of the announcement the agency made two weeks ago about its extended schedule, and clarifying how the restored but limited late-night train service is going to work the next three weekends.
SF News Search For Missing Berkeley Runner In East Bay Canyon Enters Fifth Day A cry for help reported by a couple in the area of Sunol Canyon on Tuesday turned out to be a dead end, as hundreds of volunteers continue to aid in the search for a Berkeley father of two who disappeared while on a run Saturday.
