SF News Glass Fire Grows to 36,000 Acres, Dozens of Structures Confirmed Destroyed The Glass Fire, which remains zero-percent contained as it continues burning in Sonoma and Napa counties, more than tripled in size between Monday and Tuesday, though calmer wind conditions overnight will hopefully lead to some containment today.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Rosa Senior Community Saved From Fire Three people have died in the Zogg Fire in Shasta County, Calistoga is a ghost town right now, the evacuated senior community in east Santa Rosa appears to have been spared from flames, and Oakland has had a disturbing recent spate of homicides.
SF News Day Around the Bay: At Least 68,000 Displaced By Fire Evacuations In Sonoma A 25-year-old man is clinging to life after a violent robbery in the Mission, at least 68,000 Sonoma residents are currently under evacuation orders, and the Commerce Secretary announced today in a tweet that Census counting will end on October 5.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink [Update] Parts of Meadowood Resort, Including Michelin Three-Star Restaurant, Burn In Glass Fire In St. Helena Parts of the luxury Meadowood resort caught fire early Monday morning, and despite their best efforts firefighters were unable to save the restaurant building after they drained the pool and ran out of water.
SF News Three Masked Suspects Swipe 'Large' Haul of Narcotics In Mill Valley Pharmacy Robbery Authorities are looking for three suspects who allegedly conducted a takeover robbery early Sunday afternoon at a CVS in Mill Valley.
SF News Glass Fire Merges With Sonoma Fire, Burns 11,000 Acres and Prompts Mass Evacuation The Glass Fire grew at least fourfold overnight as it merged with two other fires that it may have sparked — the Shady Fire and the Boysen Fire — and gusty offshore winds continue to help it grow to the south and west.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Air Quality to Hold Steady Around SF One person was killed by a fallen tree branch while picnicking in Burlingame over the weekend, California parents are protesting schools remaining closed with a "Zoom-out," and the TikTok ban is on hold.
SF News Wildfires Return to Areas of Wine Country Burned in 2017; Evacuation Orders Hit Santa Rosa, Kenwood, Glen Ellen Parts of Santa Rosa that either burned or were in view of the burning three years ago were under mandatory evacuation orders Sunday night as more fast-moving fire spread into Sonoma County from Napa earlier in the evening.
Bay Area Sports Joe Montana Helps Save Grandchild From Weird Kidnapping Attempt 49ers legend Joe Montana and his wife Jennifer were startled by an intruder on Saturday while staying in a home in Malibu, and the female suspect allegedly snatched their infant grandchild and tried to make off with the baby.
SF News Labor Day Gatherings May Be Behind Spike In COVID Cases In NorCal California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly gave a coronavirus briefing Friday suggesting that there are "early signs" of a spike in COVID-19 cases, particularly around Greater Sacramento and elsewhere in Northern California.
SF Politics Meet Amy Coney Barrett, the Scalia Acolyte Trump Intends to Nominate to Replace RBG ACB doesn't really have the same ring to it as RBG. But it looks like the Senate will be grilling Amy Coney Barrett any week now.
Arts & Entertainment Daveed Diggs and 'Blindspotting' Costar Rafael Casal Hosting Saturday Fundraiser For Oakland's Fairyland Children's Fairyland, on the shore of Lake Merritt, is celebrating its 70th anniversary this weekend with the launch of a digital library called "Celebrity Storytime."
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed X-Rated Cake Shop In SoMa Has Closed After 38 Years Sorry to bring you more sad closure news, but The Cake Gallery — the small but scrappy 9th Street cake bakery known for X- and R-rated custom decorations as well as photo-reproduction cakes of all kinds — has permanently shuttered after 38 years in business.
SF News Federal Judge In San Jose Rules Census Count Must Continue A U.S. district judge issued a nationwide injunction Thursday night that requires the Census Bureau to return to its original schedule of enumeration of the population through October 31.
SF News Possibly Smoky Air, High Surf, High Winds, and High Heat On the Way What happens to the air quality in various parts of the Bay is still anyone's guess as winds are expected to shift and wildfire smoke from either Mendocino County or the southern Central Valley could move our way.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Bay Area Likely to Be Spared From Power Shutoffs A small vegetation fire in a Santa Rosa neighborhood where the Tubbs Fire struck three years ago freaked everyone out on Thursday, and SF Mayor London Breed is pledging $28.5 million to the city's Latinx community for pandemic relief and testing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Chronicle Publishes a Top... 88? Muni fare inspectors are coming back, PG&E is warning about power shutoffs during this weekend's wind event, and the Chronicle published a Top 88 Bay Area Restaurants, acknowledging 12 that are currently closed.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved SoMa Restaurant Don Ramon's In Financial Trouble After 'Ghost Ship'-Like Tenants Cause Major Damage 38-year-old 12th Street Mexican restaurant Don Ramon's is facing possible foreclosure following a three-year ordeal involving upstairs tenants, major damage to the building, and a $5 million loan that the owners are now having trouble making payments on.
SF News ‘Go Slow’ Protests For Breonna Taylor to Possibly Block Bay Bridge and Golden Gate as Word Spreads On Social Media Protesters were being encouraged to “pick a bridge” on Thursday and “go slow” in order to bring further attention to the lack of justice in the police killing of Breonna Taylor in Louisville — and the Dumbarton Bridge is being targeted as well.
SF News Bay Area Crosses 100,000 Mark With COVID Cases As Hospitalizations, New Cases Stabilize This can't be said for the Bay Area families who are mourning the loss of loved ones from the COVID-19 pandemic, but for the region at large September has been a good month when it comes to the numbers.
Arts & Entertainment Marauding Gang of Raccoons Spotted In Golden Gate Park, Also a Coyote Recently a father and son on a stroll through Golden Gate Park came upon a gang of 14 raccoons, many of them juveniles, along a paved walking path near the ocean, and they shot a video.
SF News Breonna Taylor Protests Remained Peaceful, Relatively Small In the Bay Area Wednesday Night A massive protest like the ones we saw in late May in the wake of the killing of George Floyd failed to materialize in Oakland Wednesday night following news out of Louisville that no police officers are being charged with her death.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF City Attorney Sues 28 Drug Dealers to Keep Them Out of the Tenderloin United Airlines is offering rapid COVID tests for passengers flying from SFO to Hawaii, mail theft is on the rise in Oakland, and SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera is seeking civil injunctions against 28 known drug dealers to deter them from entering the Tenderloin.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Napa Businesses Upset About Homeless Quarantine In Church Trump's DOJ is aiming to announce antitrust action against Google before the election, cannabis may or may not help with COVID infection symptoms, and some protesters staged a die-in over the government's COVID response at 16th and Mission today.
SF News Cal/OSHA Fines CPMC Davies, Santa Rosa PD, Several Bay Area Nursing Homes Over COVID Violations California's employee safety watchdog, Cal/OSHA, has issued fines to multiple employers in the Bay Area, including the Santa Rosa PD where 43-year-old detective Marylou Armer contracted COVID-19 from a fellow employee.
