SF News U.S. Drought Monitor Downgrades Entire Bay Area and Much of State Into 'Extreme' Drought Conditions SF may be "yellow" on the COVID reopening map, but a different map has us in the "red." Just two weeks after categorizing the region as being in a "severe" drought, the U.S. Drought Monitor has updated its map and put the entire Bay Area in the second-worst category for drought conditions.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Gang of Condors Invades California Woman's Deck A Berkeley homeless woman has just been arrested for a hate crime for the second time this year, a big conference has pulled out of the Moscone Center for November, and a Southern California woman is dealing with a bunch of condors who won't leave her porch alone.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Double Stabbing Had Serious Mental Health History, Prior Assault Arrest In SF The 54-year-old suspect in the stabbing of two elderly Asian women had been in SF's Mental Health Diversion Program until 2020, the necropsy of a fifth dead whale was found to be a ship strike, and Benecia is now giving out pizza to young people getting their vaccines.
SF News Oakland Coliseum Mass-Vaccination Site to Close May 23; Moscone Center to Close May 28 One of the Bay Area's biggest mass-vaccination sites will shut down for good on May 23, in yet another sign of ongoing progress in the pandemic fight — and signaling the shift in focus for the vaccine campaign.
SF News Verdict Reached In Italian Murder Trial of Bay Area Youths: Both Convicted, Given Life Sentences The two young men accused in the July 2019 fatal stabbing of a police officer in Rome were found guilty of murder by a jury on Wednesday and given the harshest sentences possible.
SF News F-Market Streetcars Begin Rolling Up and Down Market and Embarcadero May 15 You may have seen some out-of-service F-Market cars rolling on Market Street in recent days, as the SFMTA trains or retrains operators and prepares for the May 15 return of the historic streetcar service between the Wharves and the Castro.
SF News Shootout at SFO Grand Hyatt Likely Connected to Carjacking Attempt; Investigation Continues A dramatic Monday evening shooting outside the new Grand Hyatt hotel at San Francisco International Airport involved at least two gunmen, and the suspects apparently tried to carjack a new getaway vehicle right around the time of the shooting.
Business & Tech Facebook 'Supreme Court' Verdict Is In: Trump Ban Stands (But Maybe Not Forever) Facebook's appointed Oversight Board has just issued its most notable content moderation decision to date, and they say that the ban of President Trump in the wake of January 6th was justified.
SF News Two Elderly Asian Women Stabbed on Mid-Market, Suspect Arrested A pair of elderly Asian women were stabbed and seriously injured while waiting for a bus at 4th and Market streets on Tuesday, and a suspect was arrested a few blocks away.
SF News Humpday Headlines: CVS Now Doing Walk-In Vaccinations A family dog caused a fiery crash at a Concord gas station, CVS is now taking vaccine walk-ins nationwide, and the SFPD is seeking a teen suspect seen setting a woman's hair on fire on a Muni bus.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Monterey Bay Aquarium Reopens Next Week A convicted sex offender was convicted of stalking an elderly woman in Napa County, yet another building under construction in Oakland has gone up in flames, and Trump has launched a new blog since he's not allowed to tweet.
SF News Noe Valley Home Of LGBTQ Heroes Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin Gets Landmarked Just over a year after Phyllis Lyon passed away at the age of 95, the home that she shared for over five decades with her wife and life partner Del Martin is being declared a city landmark.
SF News Man Who Was Killed In Alameda Police Custody Had Lost His Job Last Year, Became Depressed and Drank Two weeks after he was killed while in the custody of Alameda police — having apparently asphyxiated while pressed to the ground on his stomach, not unlike George Floyd — we are learning a bit more of the story of Mario Arenales Gonzalez.
Arts & Entertainment Academy of Sciences Resumes Popular 'NightLife' Events Next Week The popular nighttime hours on Thursdays at the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park, complete with cocktail bars and DJs, return starting May 13, in yet another sign of life in SF getting more normal-ish.
SF News SF Officially Graduates to 'Yellow' Tier; London Breed Celebrates No More Businesses With Closed Doors San Francisco has returned, for the second and hopefully final time, to the state's least-restrictive COVID tier for reopening businesses, after a six-month struggle through a major pandemic surge.
SF News Trial of Bay Area Men Accused In 2019 Stabbing of Police Officer In Rome Concludes This Week The legal proceedings stemming from a tragic incident in July 2019 in Rome involving two teenagers from the Bay Area are still ongoing due to the pandemic, and this week, defense attorneys will present their closing arguments.
SF News A Week Later, SF Officials Say It's OK to Be Outside Without a Mask A week after the CDC updated its official guidance with regard to being outdoors — where COVID transmission risk is already extremely low — San Francisco health officials have updated theirs.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Woman Shot In Shootout Outside Airport Hotel at SFO A woman was found shot outside the Grand Hyatt at SFO Monday night, SF General may reduce its reliance on sheriff's deputies, and some more information has trickled out about why two suspects were not charged in the November killing of rapper Lil Yase.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Contra Costa County Invites Anyone to Come Get Vaccinated A standoff in Pinole ended peacefully Monday morning (though a dog was killed), Contra Costa County is telling everyone to come get vaccinated there, and PG&E will have a hearing on its probation violation on Tuesday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink All-Day Breakfast Restaurant Hilda and Jesse Coming to North Beach A new all-day breakfast restaurant from a pair of local restaurant vets, which began as a pop-up, has found a permanent, brick-and-mortar location in North Beach.
SF News Sunday Wildfire In Big Basin Redwoods State Park Kicks Off Another Potentially Horrible Fire Season Dubbed the Basin Fire, the wildfire broke out after noon in Big Basin Redwoods State Park, which remains closed to visitors after suffering damage in the CZU Lightning Complex fires last August.
SF News SF Bar and Gym Owners Get Psyched For 'Yellow' Tier Reopenings This Week Things aren't going to look radically different in San Francisco after the city enters the "Yellow" tier this week for the first time since October. But some businesses are going to be popping back open that have been closed for over a year.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch Reopens After 14-Month Closure Monday marks the reopening of the San Francisco Public Library's Main Branch after more than a year of it being closed — and after a year in which Library staff were all put to work as Disaster Services Workers in various roles.
SF News We Can Stop Hoping for Herd Immunity, Experts Say — It Isn't Happening Monday brings with it a fairly depressing story from the New York Times about how infectious disease experts are saying that herd immunity is no longer the goal for the U.S., and is likely unrealistic given slowing vaccination rates.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: The So-Called San Francisco Exodus Appears Over A neighborhood in Pinole was under lockdown orders due to an armed man this morning, Verizon is selling Yahoo and AOL, and an early Red Flag Warning in the North Bay is cause for concern after some small brush fires Sunday.
