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.
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.
