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.
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.
