SF News CVS Stores In 18 Bay Area Cities to Begin Vaccinating People Friday Vaccination Nation is finally getting into full swing with both large-scale, mass-vaccination sites like Levi's Stadium and Moscone Center now open, and with CVS stores now taking appointments across the region beginning Friday.
Business & Tech Small But Angry Mobs Show Up Outside Robinhood Headquarters in Menlo Park, Animal Feces Thrown In the wake of the GameStop debacle of two weeks ago, some angry Robinhood customers have taken their anger offline and shown up at the front door of the company's headquarters on the San Francisco Peninsula.
Arts & Entertainment West Portal Movie Theater CineArts at Empire Has Permanently Closed The historic Empire Cinema in West Portal, now over 95 years old, is in search of a new operator, as Cinemark has decided not to renew its lease and to close its CineArts at Empire theater.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink East Bay High School Student's Nonprofit That Makes Baked Goods for Those In Need Expands to Eight States A high school junior in Fremont who's been giving away her baked goods to local homeless shelters since she was 13 has launched a nonprofit to mobilize other teens to do the same — and it's now grown to 10 chapters in eight states.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Funeral Reimbursement Program to Begin For COVID Victims' Families Burglaries are on the rise in Bernal Heights and DA Boudin has some theories, the Tenderloin is set to get a 20-mph speed limit, and why New York City is reopening far faster than the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Driver In Fatal Collision at Lake Merced Was Smoking 'Unknown Substance,' Prosecutors Say A child was struck and killed by a car in the Bayview Wednesday morning, a teen girl in Marin County apparently fabricated a story about being attacked while jogging, and San Francisco is returning two artifacts to Thailand.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Sonoma's Girl & the Fig Closes Temporarily After Dustup Over a Black Lives Matter Mask A Sonoma restaurant was called out by a former employee last month for, as she described it, "forcing her out" of her job because she refused to abide by a face-mask policy that required her not to wear a Black Lives Matter mask she had been wearing.
SF News Another Encampment Fire Sends Smoke Over Bayview A fire at a homeless encampment in the Bayview on Wednesday sent a plume of smoke over the city, and it's the second time in four months that an encampment in the neighborhood has burned.
SF News SF School Board Votes to Permanently End Merit-Based Admissions at Lowell High, Citing Equity San Francisco stepped into a larger national debate about merit-based admissions to public schools late last year when a fight erupted over a proposal to temporarily suspend a merit-based policy the city's elite Lowell High School, and now the change has been made permanent.
SF News First California Cases of South African COVID Variant Found in Bay Area Governor Gavin Newsom announced Wednesday that two cases of the potentially vaccine-resistant South African variant of COVID-19 have been found in California — one Alameda County and one in Santa Clara County.
SF News Felon With Recent Arrests, Wearing Ankle Monitor, Arrested as Suspect In DoorDash Driver Carjacking/Kidnapping In yet another case of a San Francisco felon who was roaming the streets with cases pending against him reoffending in a dangerous and high-profile manner, 25-year-old Erlin Romero was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping DoorDash driver Jeffrey Fang's two children last Saturday.
SF News Chevron Spills 600 Gallons of Fuel Into SF Bay; Cleanup and Damage Assessment Underway The Chevron refinery in Richmond had some sort of rupture or accident on Tuesday afternoon at a wharf where fuel tankers dock that leaked around 600 gallons of "a petroleum-water mixture" into San Francisco Bay.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Charges Filed In Richmond Infant's Death The repair of a washed-out section of Highway 1 in Big Sur may take a very long time, four people were arrested following a shootout and alleged stolen-car incident in Fremont, and the Contra Costa County DA has filed murder charges in last week's death of an infant in Richmond.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oil Spill at Chevron's Richmond Refinery Leaking 5 Gal/Min Oil is currently leaking at Chevron's Long Wharf in Richmond, UC Berkeley students are occupying People's Park to protest a development there, and Salesforce made a bombshell announcement that could mean it will need far less office space in San Francisco in the near future.
SF Politics Contra Costa County DA Catches Heat From Business Owners Over Backyard Wedding She Hosted Last Summer Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is the latest elected official in California to face a public outcry for their seemingly hypocritical behavior regarding pandemic-related public health rules.
SF News SF to Begin Phase 1B of Vaccinations in Two Weeks; Only One CA County Changes to 'Red' Tier While there seems to be steady improvement both in the COVID hospitalization picture and in case counts both in the Bay Area and statewide, no local county improved its tier status for reopening this week.
SF News 'Below Market Rate' Housing Units In San Francisco Found to Be Above Market Rate Right Now With apartments going for bargain prices around San Francisco in what will likely be a short-term dip in the rental market, so-called below-market-rate (BMR) housing is tied to other metrics, and renters can find better deals in the open the market right now.
SF News COVID Outbreak Hits North Beach Catholic Church That Hosted Illegal Wedding A San Francisco church that violated state and local public health orders to host an indoor wedding ceremony with about 100 people last July — only to be caught in the act by city officials — is now the center of a COVID outbreak in its rectory.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Avalanche Deaths Hit Century Record San Francisco is still moving forward with its lawsuit against the school district, there were 14 avalanche deaths in the U.S. in just the first week of February, and the White House directly addressed recent attacks on Asian Americans in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Old Navy Is Moving Back In With Gap Inc. The suspect in the deadly assault on an 84-year-old SF man is being held without bail, a GoFundMe for the DoorDash driver whose kids were briefly abducted has raised $120K, and Old Navy is shuttering its Mission Bay offices to move in with parent company Gap.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
Arts & Entertainment 'Firefall' Phenomenon Expected to Return Friday in Yosemite, Last About 12 Days The annual, highly Instagrammable phenomenon known as the "firefall" that occurs at sunset in late February at Horsetail Fall is expected to begin again on February 12.
SF News Arrest Made In Assaults on Elderly Victims In Oakland's Chinatown A week after three Asian American seniors were brutally attacked on the streets of Oakland's Chinatown, police say they have arrested a person of interest whom they identified last week.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 793,000 Bay Area Residents Already Vaccinated; 307 ICU Beds Available Around Region 10.2% of Bay Area residents have gotten their first vaccine shot, and COVID hospitalizations continue trending downward both locally and statewide.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Santa Clara County Sent Inspectors to Sports Bars on Super Bowl Sunday to Check COVID Compliance Lots of bars around the Bay Area had outdoor setups with tables for watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, some likely more safe than others. And in Santa Clara County, they had inspectors making surprise visits to enforce all the rules.
