SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Parklets Are Here to Stay, Everybody The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to make the city's pandemic parklets all permanent fixtures — and they voted 6-5 to allow businesses to lock them up at night, something that was argued over for about two hours.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Olivia Rodrigo Arrives at White House for Vaccine Meeting VTA light-rail service in San Jose won't be restarting this month after all, it's been confirmed that the pilot and a passenger died in yesterday's small plane crash in Monterey, and pop star Olivia Rodrigo is meeting with President Biden and Dr. Fauci about a youth vaccination campaign.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Roman Court Defends Its Decision In Cop Slaying By Bay Area Men The SF DA's Office has reached a settlement with Angie's List over false advertising claims, the Roman court that convicted two Bay Area teens in a 2019 cop stabbing has justified its verdict, and the Bon Voyage space on Valencia is pivoting to something new.
Arts & Entertainment Drought Exposes Mormon Island, a Gold Rush-Era Ghost Town In Folsom Lake Last seen during the last drought in September 2015, the ruins of a Gold Rush-era village have been exposed again as the water level in Folsom Lake has once again receded to a new low.
SF Politics Newsom Appears to Backtrack on Hardline Mask Guidance for Schools, State Will Leave Rules Up to Districts After announcing guidance for California public schools on Monday that had been leaked out on Friday, and facing backlash from critics of Governor Newsom's pandemic response in general, the state's public health department is backtracking a bit.
Bay Area Sports 20-Year-Old From SF Will Be First Tongan Woman To Compete In Weightlifting at the Olympics Kuinini "Nini" Manumua, who started lifting weights at age 13 at San Francisco's Lincoln High School, will be representing her family's home country of Tonga in the sport of weightlifting at the Tokyo Olympics — the first woman ever to represent Tonga in the sport.
SF Politics In Wake of Report About Re-Offenders, an SF Supervisor Pushes For More Reporting on Suspects Released Before Trial Adding to the warring choruses about the state of San Francisco and crime, Supervisor Catherine Stefani appears to have taken her case to the Chronicle, which rolled with a fairly sensational headline about how half of all suspects granted pretrial release go on to reoffend.
SF News Some Breakthrough COVID Cases Among Vaccinated Appearing In Bay Area; CDC Puts East Bay Areas on Hot-Spot List In the wake of a holiday travel week and the growing spread of the Delta variant, local reports are coming in with a bit more frequency of fully vaccinated people testing positive for COVID-19 and even getting sick.
SF News Cable Cars Return For Testing and (Maybe) Free Rides San Francisco's iconic cable cars rolled back into testing mode on Monday, with a few operators reportedly offering free rides while the cars undergo weeks of testing, to the delight of locals and tourists alike.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 90 People Are Running For Governor In Newsom Recall COVID outbreaks at summer camps across the U.S. have experts worried for the school year, the barrage of attack ads against Newsom has begun, and Bay Area rapper Sky Skers/Sky Balla has been arrested for rape in Vegas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Install Physical Deterrents for Sideshows Oakland is installing Botts' dots and other physical deterrents to curb sideshow activity, someone's improperly thrown out lithium battery sparked a fire at Recology, and the search intensifies for that missing Berkeley runner.
Arts & Entertainment SF Playhouse Announces 2021-22 Season, Readies In-Person Summer Shows The always scrappy and impressive SF Playhouse near Union Square is reemerging with live performances sooner than some of its larger counterparts around the Bay Area, and today they announced their upcoming full season.
SF News Breed Says '10 Groups' Responsible for 1,000 Burglaries and Car Break-Ins Each Month, and Arrests Have Been Made San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave their first "CompStat" press conference of the year Monday and they took the opportunity to try to counter the much-repeated narrative about how much crime has been plaguing San Francisco.
SF News You Can Have This Oakland Victorian For Free — But You Have to Pay to Move It A Victorian house in Oakland in an unknown state of repair is being offered for free to any taker who will pay to have it relocated.
SF News Berkeley Man Charged With Attempted Murder Following Nevada Freeway Shooting, Deadly Crash A 51-year-old Berkeley man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he was injured in a horrific freeway crash that killed the driver of the car — which followed a freeway shooting in which the injured man is the only suspect.
SF News San Jose Mayor at White House Today to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and multiple other mayors from around the country are meeting President Biden at the White House for what's been described as a high-level strategy session on addressing the rise in gun violence nationwide.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's Back-to-the-Office Day For Some at Google Firefighters have contained the 128-acre Diablo Fire in the East Bay, the search continues for a Berkeley runner who went missing in Pleasanton, and today's back-to-the-office day for many employees at Google (and elsewhere).
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Takes Questions at Manny's, Compares Recall to 'Big Lie' District Attorney Chesa Boudin told an audience of supporters at Manny's on Thursday that he "refuse[s] to be distracted" by the ongoing effort to recall him over what he says is a false perception of the reality of the city.
SF News BART Has Deployed Its Goat Herd to Tame Excess Fire-Prone Vegetation In addition to its tracks and stations, BART has over 100 acres of land to manage — and that translates to a major headache in terms of mowing grass and cutting back overgrown vegetation when fire season hits.
SF News Palo Alto Police Are Suing the City Over a Black Lives Matter Mural They Say Discriminates Against Them A Black Lives Matter mural that sparked outrage from Palo Alto police over a year ago is now the subject of a lawsuit against the city over its refusal to remove it for four months.
SF News Delta Variant Could (Maybe) Bring Mask Mandates Back In Some Places Spread of the extra-contagious Delta variant in the Bay Area and elsewhere has sparked a lot of chatter, and questions, about whether the relative freedom we're all experiencing with public health orders lifted could be short-lived.
SF News Thieves Overwhelm Security Guard at Potrero Cannabis Dispensary, Steal Weed A lot of sweet bud just moved from the legal market to the black market, and/or some thieves are getting very high somewhere right now.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Grizzly Bear That Killed Woman Is Killed The Montana grizzly bear that dragged a NorCal woman out of her tent and killed her has been shot and killed, a Flex Alert has been issued for 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. today, and video shows fallen rocks from yesterday's earthquake.
SF News Day Around the Bay: VTA Train Service Coming Back Online This Month VTA light rail service will be back by late July following the shooting-related shutdown, Contra Costa County says the Delta variant is spreading there among the unvaccinated, and The Independent reopens Friday.
SF News 5.9M Earthquake on California-Nevada Border Felt In Bay Area, Sacramento A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck Thursday afternoon near Smith Valley, Nevada in the eastern Sierra, about 80 miles south of Reno, and shaking was felt all across the Bay Area, including in San Francisco.
