SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rains Cause Flooding, Mudslide Damage Rains continue to pummel the South and East Bay but SF should see just scattered showers today, around two dozen structures were damaged by mudslides in Monterey County, and a walk-in vaccination site just opened in East San Jose with no appointments needed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 85-Year-Old Man Dies After Being Struck By Car in the Mission Mayor London Breed had some stern words for the school board over this renaming project, Blue Shield of California has been tapped to help the state with the vaccine rollout, and a high-ranking CA appeals court justice is being removed for sexual harrassment.
SF News Second Transbay Tube Takes Another Step Toward Reality, With a Goal of Completion in 2040 Wednesday marked the unveiling of a new multiyear planning process by BART and regional rail providers, a key component of which will be a second Bay crossing for BART between San Francisco and Oakland.
SF News Napa Man Arrested For Explosives Had 'White Privilege Card', Allegedly Planned to Blow Up Twitter and Gavin Newsom A Napa businessman whose January 15 arrest we learned of last week, turns out to have been allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol, as well as Twitter and Facebook, all in the name of Donald Trump.
Arts & Entertainment 111 Minna Gallery Damaged By Small Fire A one-alarm fire broke out Wednesday morning at the beloved bar/gallery and entertainment space 111 Minna, and it's not yet known what the extent of the damage was.
SF News Lincoln, Jefferson, Washington, and Dozens of Other Names to Be Stripped From San Francisco Public Schools The SF Board of Education voted 6 to 1 Tuesday night to rename 44 schools in the district — approving the recommendations of renaming committee that last year sparked controversy when it included Abraham Lincoln among the names to be stripped from local schools.
SF News Initial Storm Damage Minimal Across Bay Area as More Rains Arrive Tuesday night brought roaring, howling winds and pelting rains to many parts of the Bay Area, but so far the reports of damage and power outages have been minimal.
SF news Humpday Headlines: Tahoe Resorts Brace for Skiing Crowds Carmen Chu is San Francisco's new City Administrator, wind blew a big rig into a jackknife on the Bay Bridge, and restaurant workers will be prioritized for vaccines under the state's new plans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stormy Weather Halts Mass Vaccinations at City College The extreme weather this week is forcing SF's newly set-up mass-vaccination site to close til Friday, a gay Black firefighter is suing the SFFD for discrimination, and Marin conservatives rally in support of the MyPillow guy.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed SF Leather Bar Powerhouse Temporarily Became a Food Pantry For LGBTQ People and Others In Need For the past six weeks, a SoMa queer bar that's better known for raunchy theme nights and its storied past in the leather community temporarily turned into a food pantry serving LGBTQ seniors and a group of unemployed nightlife workers around the city who found themselves running out of money.
SF Politics Bay Area Man Arrested After He Allegedly Went Nuts Threatening Democratic Congressman and His Family on Jan. 6 In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
SF News Atmospheric Rivers, Explained It doesn't seem as though the term "atmospheric river" has been in common use for more than a decade or so by TV weather people. But lately it comes up nearly every winter in California.
SF News California EDD Confirmed to Be a Bloody Mess In New Auditor's Report A state auditor's report released Monday suggests that not only did the California Employment Development Department (EDD) mishandle hundreds of thousands of claims and leave legitimate unemployed claimants going hungry last year, but that possibly $30 billion was paid out to fraudsters.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hurricane Hunters Fly Into Our Coming Storm Twitter has permanently banned MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for "repeated violations," the I-5 is shut down at the Grapevine due to heavy snow, and Rep. Barbara Lee is the new chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter Launches Crowdsourced Fact-Checking Program Twitter is going the Wikipedia route with a new fact-checking program, California's new My Turn vaccine app was developed by Salesforce, and outdoor dining resumed without hesitation at some Bay Area restaurants today.
Business & Tech UCSF Team Finds Cancer Drug That Is 30 Times More Effective At Fighting COVID Than Remdesivir A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
SF News Coming Deluge of Rain Prompts Evacuations, Landslide, Flood, and Wind Warnings Around the Bay The next round of rain heading toward the Bay this week will be the heaviest we've seen in a while. And in addition to warnings of high winds coming with the next band of storms, areas that saw significant burning during last year's wildfires are facing the threat of landslides.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Outdoor Dining, Personal Services To Resume In San Francisco Outdoor dining can resume in San Francisco starting Thursday, now that COVID case numbers are decreasing the state has lifted the regional stay-at-home orders that began over a month ago.
SF News Stubborn Scofflaw Yoga Studio Owner In Pacifica Makes Apparent Threats Against County Supervisor's Family As the Trumpists continue their wails of false fury about an election that they lost, a local battle that epitomizes the idiocy of politicizing the pandemic and denying basic science rages on just south of San Francisco.
SF News Newsom Lifts Regional Stay-at-Home Orders as Bed Capacities Rise Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the remaining regional stay-at-home orders across California, returning to the county-by-county, color-coded system for reopening, and San Francisco will be allowing outdoor dining to resume in short order.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Placer County Man's Post-Vaccine Death Being Investigated Bay Area teachers remain in a vaccine limbo, three people were wounded in a shooting outside a Burlingame hotel, and Sacramento is getting more aggressive with building housing than San Francisco.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Landmark Castro Bar Twin Peaks Gets Second Reprieve From Patron Donations The landmark bar at the corner of Market and Castro, Twin Peaks, put out a call for crowdfunding donations in December following a similar effort last spring, and once again fans and patrons of the bar stepped up and gave over $100,000.
SF News Russian Man In Sunnyvale Confesses to Killing Wife and Daughter A tragic case is unfolding in the South Bay after a software engineer walked in to a police station on Wednesday and confessed to killing his wife. His 11-year-old daughter was found dead as well.
SF News Derick Almena Pleads Guilty In Ghost Ship Fire Case, Will Likely Not Serve Any More Time Behind Bars Families of the victims of the tragic December 2016 Ghost Ship fire are not all pleased with a plea agreement that was offered recently to the remaining criminal defendant in the case, Derick Almena. But on Friday, he pleaded guilty to 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.
SF News Bay Area Sees Another Spike In COVID Deaths, With 250 More Dead in 3 Days Adhering to a grim schedule that was predicted by public health experts, the holiday-season surge in COVID cases is now showing its spike in deaths, both locally and elsewhere.
