SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Backlash Grows Over Bay Area Restaurant and Business Closures, In Spite of COVID Surge Concerns Anger, sadness, and lots of financial pain and resentment are going around in San Francisco and several neighboring counties after new health orders that took effect Sunday night.
SF Politics Willie Brown Doesn't Get the Drama With the City Hall Scandal, Feels Bad For Friends Facing Federal Charges Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who is often credited with wielding influence over city government and development long after his tenure as mayor ended in the early 2000s, has weighed in on the latest corruption scandal at City Hall in a new interview.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SoMa Shooting Leaves One Critically Wounded A person was fatally struck by Caltrain in San Francisco Tuesday night, California set a new record for daily COVID cases with over 35,000, and it's IPO Day for DoorDash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beer Week Is Obviously Canceled UC Berkeley is sending mixed message to students about the winter break, the SF Board of Supervisors is not banning smoking in apartment buildings after all, and the death of a man found in a burning home in Richmond is being treated as suspicious.
Arts & Entertainment Tracy Man Famous for Holiday Light Shows Does Xmas Tribute for Wife After She Survived a Stroke Tom BetGeorge, the lighting designer whose holiday light displays on his home in Tracy at Halloween and Christmas time have been the stuff of much local-news fodder the past few years, is back at it, but with new personal meaning to this year's work.
SF Politics Drug Test Ordered By Judge Following Search of City Official's Home and Suspected Cocaine Discovery A new and embarrassing twist came in the City Hall scandal chapter involving former SF Public Utilities chief Harlan Kelly as prosecutors say that cocaine was found in the FBI's search of his home.
SF News Search Launched for Man Swept Out to Sea Amid Rough Surf in Pacifica A man was reportedly swept out to sea Tuesday morning near the Pacifica Municipal Pier, and rescuers have been unable to find him.
SF News Maverick San Mateo County Health Officer Tells Residents There Won't Be a New Lockdown Unless State Insists One of the consistently intriguing figures in this pandemic has been Dr. Scott Morrow, the longtime health officer of San Mateo County, who has made a habit of telling it like it is when it comes to public health orders and not reverting to talking points or bureaucratic obfuscation.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SF Police Chief 'Disappointed' In Grand Jury Indictment One person was killed in a triple shooting near Mills College in Oakland, Marin County voluntarily enters lockdown today with other Bay Area counties, and the SF Board of Supervisors is looking into creating a universal basic income program.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Eviction Moratorium May Get Extended Assemblymember David Chiu is trying to get the statewide residential eviction moratorium extended through 2021, an East Bay gym continues defying health orders, and two Warriors players have tested COVID-positive.
SF News [Update] Second December Red Flag Warning Looking Less Likely For Wednesday Frustratingly, the Bay Area is still not out of the woods for this fire season, and a second rare December Red Flag Warning could come with a second wind event in the middle of this week.
SF News Two Suspects At Large After Noe Valley Robbery and Shooting A 42-year-old man was left with life-threatening injuries after being shot twice while fleeing from two suspects during a Sunday night mugging in Noe Valley.
SF News Grand Jury Indicts Rookie SFPD Officer Over December 2019 Shooting of Jamaica Hampton In the second instance of an SFPD officer facing charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting in just two weeks, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that a grand jury has returned an indictment of Officer Christopher Flores for the Dec. 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.
SF News San Francisco Has Biggest Three-Day COVID Case Count to Date as City Enters New Lockdown San Francisco added 316 new COVID-19 cases on Monday morning, and over 540 between Saturday and Sunday, marking the biggest three-day jump in new cases the city has seen since the pandemic began.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: PG&E Calls Off PSPS Despite Winds California AG Xavier Becerra is a surprise pick for Biden's Health and Human Services Secretary, the state topped 30,000 new COVID cases on Saturday, and a woman was arrested in Marin after walking onto the freeway carrying an infant.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Announces New Stay-At-Home Orders for SF Ahead of State Mandate; Outdoor Dining to Cease Until January Starting Sunday night and extending until at least January 4, San Francisco restaurants will need to cease outdoor dining, personal services and indoor gyms will need to shut down, and retail businesses will need to enact stricter capacity limits.
SF News Gunman On Loose Following Friday Morning Shooting in SoMa The SPFD is hunting for a suspect following a shooting this morning in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood.
SF News Why the Bay Area's Next Lockdown May Depend on Monterey, Santa Clara, and Sonoma Counties The state's new methodology for deciding when the new stay-at-home order will be triggered groups Santa Cruz and Monterey counties into the Bay Area, so we are now all in this together as a region.
SF News Former YouTube Engineer Enters No-Contest Plea In Acid-Fueled Bodega Bay Rampage A 33-year-old man who had done too much acid while vacationing with friends in Bodega Bay last year, and who subsequently went on a violent rampage that injured several people before getting shot by police, has pleaded no contest.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: PG&E Rate Hike to Come In March Bay Area nurses say that hospitals are short-staffed and nearing a breaking point, Berkeley is hoping to avoid the shutdown of outdoor dining, and PG&E just got its rate hike approved which will average around 8% more on customers' bills.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter May Ban Trump After Biden's Inauguration BART's board approved contracts for its workers six months early, Santa Clara County added 783 new cases today, and Twitter is saying it may suspend Trump's account altogether as soon as he's not president anymore.
Business & Tech Trump Justice Department Sues Facebook Over Alleged Bias Toward H1-B Visa Workers Over Americans In a last, litigious middle finger to Facebook on their way out the door, Trump's Justice Department is suing the social media giant over what it found to be a pattern of favoritism toward temporary immigrant workers over Americans in its hiring practices.
Arts & Entertainment 'Matrix 4' and All 20 Other Warner Bros. Films in 2021 Will Stream on HBO Max Simultaneous With Theater Releases In a major announcement and landmark moment in the streaming wars, Warner Bros. Pictures announced Thursday that all of its slate of film releases for 2021 will be released simultaneously in theaters and on HBO Max.
SF News Gov. Gavin Newsom Imposes Three-Week Stay-at-Home Order For Most of California Citing the fact that ICU capacity is expected to drop below 15 percent in most regions of the state, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that he was once again pulling the "emergency brake" this week and he's instituting a three-week stay-at-home order.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Breed Says the 'Criticism Is Fair' Over Her French Laundry Dinner Mayor London Breed responded Thursday to an outcry this week over news that she had dined with a group of unrelated people at the French Laundry four weeks ago, and says, "I need to hold myself to a higher standard."
