SF Politics Recall Candidate John Cox Served Subpoena at Debate; Another Candidate Drops Out After Heart Attack Republican candidate for governor in the recall election John Cox was served a subpoena Tuesday at the start of a debate with two other Republican candidates.
SF News Caldor Fire Tops 53,000 Acres; Firefighters Call Fire Behavior 'Unprecedented' The Caldor Fire burning in El Dorado County, which was at 6,500 acres as of yesterday morning and 30,000 acres by evening, continued tearing through the El Dorado National Forest overnight, and as of Wednesday morning it had hit 53,000 acres.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Fremont Woman In Bikini Confesses to Starting Forest Fire A former San Francisco couple was found dead along with their child and dog in the Sierra National Forest, Nancy Pelosi talks about the recall and Afghanistan, and a bikini-clad woman "covered in scratches" confessed to lighting a forest fire near Tahoe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: North Beach Bar Says It's Closing Because Of Vaccine, Mask Mandates East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell has a "help desk" set up in Castro Valley for Afghans concerned about their relatives, CA Attorney General Rob Bonta says he'll review the 2009 Oscar Grant shooting, and two people were injured today in the Caldor Fire.
Arts & Entertainment Redevelopment Plans Move Forward for Historic El Rey Theater In Ingleside The El Rey Theater, which hasn't functioned as a movie house in many decades, may finally have a chance at redevelopment as plans for the property were recently resubmitted for preliminary review by the Planning Department.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown's Z&Y Restaurant Is Latest to Be Dinged for Wage Theft Z&Y Restaurant, one of the better known and acclaimed Chinese restaurants in San Francisco, is the latest local restaurant to have to settle a wage-theft case brought by immigrant employees — this time to the tune of $1.6 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Cliff House to Be Revived As New Restaurant In Late 2022; Louis' Diner Also Begins Operator Search Fans of the Cliff House can rest assured that the space will be a restaurant once again, likely by late next year, and the National Park Service has officially moved into the next phase of selecting a new operator to run it.
SF News Airbnb Is Suing Guest Who Threw Sunnyvale House Party That Ended In Shooting As it has done in similar cases in the past, Airbnb announced Tuesday that it is taking legal action against the guest who threw an unauthorized teenage bash at a rental home in Sunnyvale on August 7 that tragically ended in a fatal shooting.
SF News Red Flag Warning Issued For Parts of North and East Bay With Winds Expected As strong, gusty winds arrive, the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning for parts of the Bay Area beginning at 11 p.m. Tuesday and extending through 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
SF News Body Found In Water In Pacifica Identified As Missing Richmond District Grandmother A mysterious disappearance has some closure today as the coroner in San Mateo County confirms that a body found off Pedro Point in Pacifica is that of 84-year-old Jean Chang Kan Fung.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: FDA Expected to Recommend Boosters at 8 Months The FDA is expected to announce this week that Americans should get a booster vaccine dose 8 months after their second dose, there's some weird and threatening union drama among Golden Gate Transit bus drivers, and the Caldor Fire exploded in size overnight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Staffer Tests Positive for COVID Two Oakland schools have already had to contend with small COVID outbreaks, a vaccinated Newsom staffer has tested positive, and the Great Highway reopened to cars this morning following a Sunday protest.
Arts & Entertainment Zion I Rapper Baba Zumbi Dies In Berkeley Hospital After 'Altercation' During Treatment for COVID Baba Zumbi, whose real name was Stephen Gaines, died early Friday at Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley at the age of 49, possibly from complications related to COVID-19 — though police are also investigating an altercation he was allegedly involved in with hospital staff just before he died.
SF News SF Delta Surge May Have Already Peaked, But City Reopens Mass-Testing Site In SoMa Months after the city closed several mass-testing locations in favor of neighborhood-based sites, the Delta variant surge of COVID has prompted SF's Department of Public Health to reopen one of its former drive-through/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Adds Tool to Help Restaurants Verify Customers' Vaccination Status Reservation-booking platform OpenTable says it is rolling out a new feature for restaurants by the end of the month that will allow them to flag repeat customers as "Verified for Entry" once they have shown their vaccination proof once.
SF News DA's Office Announces Charges Against Man Accused Of Vandalizing, Burglarizing Dozens of Chinese-Owned Businesses A San Francisco man stands accused of vandalizing 20 Chinese-owned businesses in the city, as well as seven others, and he faces burglary charges and hate-crime enhancements as well.
SF News Judge Tosses Alison Collins's Bizarre $87 Million Lawsuit Against SF School Board Many of us were left scratching/shaking our heads in March after embattled school board member Alison Collins filed her federal suit, and now a judge has tossed it before it had a hearing.
SF News Marin-Based Founder of Agriculture Nonprofit Says the Lives of Her 360 Afghan Employees Are at Risk Heidi Kuhn, the co-founder of the Bay Area-founded, international nonprofit Roots of Peace, is pleading with President Biden and speaking out to the media in the hopes of evacuating 360 Afghan employees whose lives she believes are at risk.
SF News PG&E Warns of PSPS Outages Starting Tuesday PG&E announced late Sunday that it was giving its mandated 48 hours advance warning of possible public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) in 16 counties due to dry winds starting on Tuesday night.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Afghan Community Devastated By Taliban Takeover The Bay Area's large Afghan community is watching news from Kabul in horror, evacuations were ordered in the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, and the mayor of San Jose is calling for the sheriff to resign.
SF News SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe? San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?
SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News La Niña Watch Is Officially On This Fall, and That Could Be Disastrous for the Drought We are looking at back-to-back La Niña winters, and while forecasters tried to keep us optimistic about the chances of average rainfall last winter, we all know how that turned out. So we should brace ourselves for another year of this drought.
SF News San Francisco Only Got More Childless In the Last Decade For several decades now, San Francisco has had one of the lowest percentages of school-age children and teens of any major city in the country. And the latest numbers from the 2020 Census show that SF's youth population has only decreased.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Kicks Off 'Vote No' Campaign In San Francisco With one month left before California votes on whether or not to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, and days before people start receiving their mail-in ballots — if you haven't received yours already — Newsom is doing a four-day campaign tour encouraging voters to "Vote No."
