SF News Alameda County Moves to 'Orange' Tier But Will Not Open Indoor Dining Yet; Santa Clara County to Allow 25% Capacity Both Alameda and Santa Clara County moved into the state's "orange" tier status for pandemic reopening, joining San Francisco in the second-least severe group of counties with only "moderate" virus spread.
SF News Inside (Local Media) Baseball: SFist Joins Forces With Hoodline The local media landscape has gone through plenty of changes in the last two decades, but today we have some good news for readers and consumers of Bay Area news.
SF News Yet Another Red Flag Warning Officially Issued as Fire Danger Returns For North Bay, East Bay Hills and Valleys Warm, dry weather and offshore wind will make for beach weather in SF the next few days, but all kinds of potential terror elsewhere in the Bay Area.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Mission Spot Californios Relocates to Former Bar Agricole Space The airy SoMa space occupied by Bar Agricole for much of the last decade will be the new home of Californios — giving the Michelin-starred, Mexican-influenced restaurant from chef Val Cantu more space to breathe (in a pandemic) both indoors and out.
SF News Woman Dies After Car Plows Into Outdoor Dining Area In San Jose The story of a car that injured eight people when it drove into a restaurant's outdoor dining area on Sunday afternoon took a tragic turn Monday when one of the eight victims died from her injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Money Pours Into the 'No on I' Campaign Kindergarten enrollment is down across the Bay Area, firefighters put out a brush fire by an encampment in West Oakland, and real estate people are pouring millions into the campaign to defeat SF's Prop I.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Drag Queens Hit the Streets of SF to Get Out the Vote A Minnesota pumpkin grower won the annual Half Moon Bay pumpkin contest today with a 2,350-lb gourd, a multi-car collision backed up the westbound Bay Bridge, and what to expect from Tuesday's Apple event.
SF News 'We Can't Keep Living Like This': Dave Eggers Offers Firsthand Account of the Early Hours of the Glass Fire One of the Bay Area's most renowned writers, Dave Eggers, has offered up his own account of the Glass Fire for The New Yorker.
SF News Armed and Dangerous Suspect Being Sought After South Bay Homicide A Gilroy man who's considered armed and dangerous was on the loose Monday, and authorities believe he was responsible for the shooting death of a woman on Sunday night in Milpitas.
Arts & Entertainment Monterey Whale Watching Captain Sees First-Ever Triple Breach of Humpbacks Three humpback whales put on a tandem show in Monterey Bay on Sunday, performing an extremely rare triple breach that delighted whale-watchers out for a tour.
SF News Predicted Mid-Week High Winds Means More Likely Power Shutoffs for North Bay Higher temperatures and gusty offshore winds later this week have PG&E warning customers in the North Bay and elsewhere that there could be another PSPS (public safety power shutoff) in their future.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Details Emerge In Death of SF Firefighter Several people were injured by a car that drove into an outdoor dining area in San Jose, two more orphaned mountain lion cubs rescued in the Zogg Fire arrive at the Oakland Zoo, and the SFFD released details in the death of firefighter Jason Cortez.
Business & Tech City's First Latina-Owned Pot Dispensary Opens In Union Square A sleek new dispensary just debuted in Union Square Friday morning to an eager crowd of early customers, and it's the first in the city to be owned by a Latina woman.
SF News SF & Bay Area COVID Hospitalizations Return to June Lows as Case Counts Stabilize There's been a lot of other horrors in the news lately. But in terms of COVID case counts, virus spread, and hospitalizations, it's been mostly good news in the Bay Area since mid-September.
SF News SF Firefighters Contain Blaze That Erupted at Bayview Homeless Encampment Next to Caltrain Tracks Smoke was rising from an encampment fire in San Francisco's Bayview District on Friday morning, after a fire erupted at what's being described as a "treehouse" that was built into a hillside beside the Caltrain tracks.
SF News Number of Properties For Sale In SF Nearing Two-Decade High; Condos and Single-Family Homes See Price Drops In the history of San Francisco real estate, the lows never drop too low or last too long. Will this time be different?
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 74% Containment; 1,545 Structures Burned The Glass Fire remains largely under control in Sonoma and Napa counties as we close out its second week since igniting, and Cal Fire reported Friday morning that it has reached 74-percent containment.
SF Politics Pelosi Wants to Create Commission on Presidential Capacity In Order to Invoke 25th Amendment for Future Presidents Pelosi and Rep. Jamie Raskin on Friday introduced proposed legislation to create a commission that would assess a president's physical and mental capacity to serve — in the case of future presidents who, say, catch a deadly disease and seem to act erratically after taking a steroid.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: World Food Program Wins Nobel Peace Prize Nine residents have died and 46 have been infected in a recent COVID outbreak at a Santa Cruz County nursing home, Alameda County has reopened gyms and malls, and the UN World Food Program has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Concord Man Leaps Off Overpass While Fleeing Police, Dies Sales tax data from the spring shows evidence of SF exodus, Sausalito license-plate cameras detected a stolen car used in an SF burglary this morning, and more public-safety power shutoffs may be in store on Sunday.
SF Politics Two City Contractors In Nuru Scandal Probe Take Plea Deals The ongoing federal prosecution of City Hall corruption schemes that, thus far, have all had alleged ties back to former Department of Public Works chief Mohammed Nuru has netted two more guilty pleas this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink State Bird Spinoff The Anchovy Bar Opens In the Fillmore A much-anticipated restaurant opening for 2020 has made it open, sit-down dining and all.
Arts & Entertainment Movie Theaters In San Francisco Refuse to Reopen Under City Rules Banning All Concessions A coalition that includes the city's biggest and most popular cinemas says the theater owners are keeping their doors closed until the city allows them to sell food and drinks, which are their money-makers.
SF Politics Proud Boys Rally Possibly Planned For Dolores Park (But Don't Assume These Jokers Are That Organized) A flyer went up on Twitter last week about a "free speech rally" for Proud Boys in San Francisco's Dolores Park on October 17 — but this event has all the hallmarks of the weird, sometimes fictional, antifa-antagonizing rallies that were planned around the Bay in 2017.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Coachella Pushed to October 2021 There was an "officer-involved fatal incident" in Concord last night, Dr. Anthony Fauci is participating in a UC Berkeley public policy talk today, and a leaked FEMA memo suggests 34 White House staffers have been infected with COVID-19.
