SF News COVID Cases Are Spiking Once Again In Alameda County Among the Unvaccinated Alameda County, parts of which became early hot spots of COVID-19 infection in 2020, may be poised to become a hot spot once more as unvaccinated pockets of the county are seeking outbreaks of cases that are being mirrored elsewhere in the country.
SF News Two-Alarm House Fire Sends Smoke Into the Fog in Merced Heights A two-alarm fire in Merced Heights on Thursday afternoon required the rescue of at least one resident in the burning home.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chef Traci Des Jardins Plans New Mexican-Inspired Restaurant on the Peninsula Chef Traci Des Jardins, whose local restaurant empire shrank significantly over the last two years, looks to be getting back in the game with a new venture coming to a planned food hall in Los Altos.
SF News New Tsunami Impact Map for SF Puts North Beach and Lower Market Street Under Water The California Geological Survey (CGS) has released updated tsunami hazard area maps for the Bay Area, using worst-case scenario predictions to look at where residents will need to evacuate to higher ground.
SF News Nuru Scandal Cont'd: Former Public Works Employee Arrested By DA For Allegedly Shady Merch Contract Worth $263K The latest development in the now 18-month unfolding of both federal and local investigations into corrupt dealings at San Francisco City Hall is the arrest of a former high-ranking Department of Public Works official by the SF District Attorney's Office.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: There Will Be Zero Spectators at the Olympics A 3.6M earthquake struck northern Napa County last night, a Mendocino County wildfire is now threatening homes, and the Prime Minister of Japan announced that there will be no spectators at the Olympics at all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Woman Killed By Grizzly Bear at Campsite A 16-year-old boy was shot while on a Muni bus on Treasure Island, a California woman was pulled from her tent and killed by a bear in Montana, July 4th revelers left behind mountains of trash on Tahoe beaches.
SF News Marin County Ups the Ante With Water Restrictions, Limits Lawn Watering to Once a Week Facing a drought that everyone is calling unprecedented, Marin County is tightening its water-use restrictions in ways that other counties may soon follow.
SF Politics CA Attorney General Says His Office Will Now Decide Charges In Officer-Involved Shootings of Unarmed Civilians Newly installed California Attorney General Rob Bonta on Wednesday laid out how he plans to enforce a law that he helped put on the books as an Assemblymember, which requires the AG's Office to get involved with all police shootings of unarmed civilians in the state.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New York Bakery Destination Milk Bar Is Testing Bay Area Waters With SF Pop-Up, Peninsula Delivery Operation Pastry chef Christina Tosi's big hit bakery Milk Bar looks to be doing some more expansion, and it's arriving in the Bay Area in two ways, including a pop-up at San Francisco's Ferry Building.
SF News East Bay Man, 20, Found Dead at Lake Oroville Campground A San Pablo man was found dead inside a tent at Lake Oroville over the holiday weekend, and the death is being investigated as a murder.
SF Politics Trump Is Now Suing All the Tech Companies Who Banned Him Donald Trump is busying himself with a new crusade that is likely to fail, and it's a class-action lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter, and Google.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Heatwave Once Again Will Mostly Hit Far Inland A large homeless encampment under the 101 freeway in San Rafael was cleared, a San Francisco armed robbery suspect was arrested after being shot in a separate incident, and there seems to be significant support for the recall of three SF School Board members.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Launches COVID Testing Pilot For Arriving International Passengers A 75-year-old woman was knocked down and critically injured by a fleeing shoplifter in the Outer Mission, former homelessness czar Jeff Kositsky is leaving City Hall entirely, and SFO is giving free COVID rapid-testing and variant-testing kits to arriving international passengers.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mister Jiu's Chef Brandon Jew Looks to Bring His Casual Mamahuhu Restaurant to Marin Chef Brandon Jew is in expansion mode, and it looks like he's planning to open up a second outpost of his Outer Richmond fast-casual Chinese concept Mamahuhu in Mill Valley.
SF News SF's Much Loved/Hated Federal Building Getting Fenced-In Plaza Makeover The Federal Building at 7th and Mission, which is now 14 years old, is undergoing a major redo of its beleaguered, often litter- and needle-filled plaza.
Business & Tech Mark Zuckerberg, American Hero on a Dork's Surfboard? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a strange but totally on-brand Instagram video on July 4th of himself holding a big American flag riding an electric foil surfboard on a lake, set to the tune of John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads."
SF News Smash-and-Dash Handbag Heist Gang Hits SF's Union Square Once More A group of young thieves walked into the Neiman Marcus store in San Francisco's Union Square on Monday evening and swiped a bunch of expensive handbags in a coordinated heist that's very similar to a string of others on the Peninsula.
SF News Oakland Sees Night of Chaos With Massive Sideshow, 'Celebratory' Gunfire and Other Violence Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong gave a special press briefing Monday to lament the "12 hours of non-stop chaos" that he says officers were dealing with on Sunday night.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Illegal Fireworks Spark Blazes Across the Bay A 30-year-old man living in a Santa Cruz RV just confessed to murdering a woman, illegal firework activity sparked blazes in multiple Bay Area towns and cities, and police in Pittsburg seized an "ice cream truck" that was selling M-1000s.
Arts & Entertainment SF Chinatown Has a Long and Lawless History In the Illegal Fireworks Trade We are deep in fireworks season right now all over the Bay Area, as every owner of a skittish dog is well aware. But did you know that for decades, people flocked to SF's Chinatown to buy caches of illegal fireworks and law enforcement mostly turned a blind eye?
SF News Supreme Court Provides Late-Term Victory for LGBTQ Civil Rights In Flower Shop Case The Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would let stand a lower court's ruling in favor of a gay couple in Washington State who were refused service by their local flower shop when they sought arrangements for their wedding.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Rise 10% In Bay Area; Sonoma County Seeing About 60 New Cases Per Day Among Unvaccinated The pandemic picture in the Bay Area hasn't entirely cleared up and turned sunny, and there continue to be pockets of new infection in multiple local counties, as well as an unsettling uptick in new COVID hospitalizations.
SF News SFPD Seeks Public's Help In Finding Second Suspect In Killing of Six-Year-Old One Year Ago San Francisco police named a second suspect in the July 4, 2020 killing of six-year-old Jace Young, saying that the suspect is at large, armed, and dangerous and may still be in the city.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Target Stores Closing Early Due to Crime The six Target stores in SF are now closing at 6 p.m. due to a spike in crime, the Oakland A's are blasting BART for not running later trains after their fireworks show tonight, and gas prices in the Bay Area are the highest in seven years.
