SF News Fire Updates: LNU Complex Grows To 205 Square Miles, Two People Have Died Firefighters are stretched thin across Northern California as crews continue battling wildfires large and small on over two dozen fronts, in the nine-county Bay Area and beyond. And the still uncontained fire burning into Solano County is now imminently threatening thousands of homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up?: Explaining the Current Energy Crisis A PG&E worker died helping firefighters in Vacaville on Wednesday, energy officials explain why California became so suddenly short on power this week, and Steve Bannon has been charged with fraud in New York.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires + Heatwave + Pandemic... You've Got To Be Joking Struggling businesses now have to lure people outside in the smoke, winds may pick up and make fires worse this evening, and on the plus side Barack Obama is set to tear Donald a new one in his DNC speech this evening.
SF News Fired Oakland Police Chief Files Whistleblower Lawsuit Citing Corruption Allegations Against Police Commission As Kirkpatrick warned she would, she has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that her firing came after she had sought to challenge "corruption and abuse of power" by members of the city's police commission.
SF News Mapping All the Wildfires As They Stand In the Bay Area Right Now You've likely seen the news reports and heard all the alphanumeric names being thrown around (LNU, CZU, 15-10, Hennessey, Gamble), and yes, it feels like we're in yet another apocalypse. Here are some maps.
SF News SF Artist Who Once Painted Kamala Harris On Heart Sculpture Becomes 'Ken' In Viral Video At South Bay Marshalls An artist and onetime LGBT talk-show host in San Francisco, Tim Gaskin, has popped up in a video that's gone viral after he was heard spewing a homophobic epithet and other angry words at a store employee in the South Bay over a demand that he wear a face mask.
SF News 20-Year-Old SF Man Arraigned For Murder After Police-Chase Crash That Killed One and Injured Six A San Francisco man was arraigned for murder and other crimes Wednesday in connection with a police chase that ended in a horrific crash on Saturday in the Crocker-Amazon neighborhood that killed a 63-year-old Pittsburg man.
SF News August Lightning Fires: Napa Fires Grow to 31,500 Acres, Sonoma Fire Threatens Guerneville Fires that began Monday near Lake Berryessa in Napa have prompted evacuations in Vacaville and Winters, and a fire grew rapidly in Sonoma County overnight west of Healdsburg, creating a widespread evacuation order.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Apple Valuation Hits $2 Trillion The need for rolling blackouts was averted last night, the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement over homeless tents with UC Hastings, and Apple is now worth $2 trillion.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Wildfire Prompts Evacuations Gov. Newsom declared a statewide emergency over the current spate of wildfires and the heatwave, a hurricane in the Pacific is set to possibly send us more thunderstorms this weekend, and SF General needs help identifying an unconscious woman.
SF News It Took Three Months For The Bay Area to Reach 25,000 COVID Cases, and Six Weeks For That Number To Triple The mind-numbing daily updates about the coronavirus have become, at this point, a lot of noise to many people — even though there are actual human lives behind each number. Still, certain figures are striking when you look back at the data.
SF News Here's Where to Check If Your Power Is Getting Shut Off Tonight Around the Bay Area PG&E is continuing rolling blackouts Tuesday, as necessary, to reduce strain on the electrical grid during this heatwave. And though you won't get advance warning as you would for a fire-safety shutoff, you can check a map to see if you're losing power at some point Tuesday afternoon or evening.
SF News Wildfire With Major Growth Potential Prompts Evacuation Warning In West Sonoma County A newly worsening wildfire in rugged terrain west of Healdsburg in Sonoma County prompted an evacuation warning Tuesday that was pushed out to cellphones to all Sonoma County residents, raising alarm bells for many nowhere near the blaze.
SF News New SF Karen Rants Crazily About Dolores Park Playground Closure As 'Unconstitutional' San Francisco is not immune from racist nutjob conspiracy-loving covidiots, and a new one has offered us a fine performance, sans face mask, while railing against a Rec & Parks outreach worker in Dolores Park about the closure of the playground. To wit, she did not appear to have a child in tow.
SF News After Case Goes Cold, SFPD Offers $100K Reward to Find Shooter Of Bayview Six-Year-Old San Francisco Police are now offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects involved in a July 4 drive-by shooting that took the life of a six-year-old.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Officials Order Removal Of Hashiri's Dining Domes On Mint Plaza Due to COVID Transmission Risk It looks like a high-end SF Japanese restaurant's attempt at preserving the fine dining experience via outdoor plastic domes — and preventing panhandlers or other wanderers from bothering diners — is a violation of local pandemic health orders.
SF News Multiple Major Wildfires Rage Around the Bay, Including Three In Napa County Five wildfires, four sparked by lightning, are burning around the Bay, including three now raging in Napa County that have grown larger in size than the two East Bay fires that began on Sunday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gap Closes Flagship Store At Powell and Market Hundreds of San Jose residents are livid at PG&E for a 44-hour power outage, a case of bubonic plague has popped up at South Lake Tahoe, and Gap Inc. is shutting down three of its of four SF stores.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hennessey Fire Near St. Helena Grows to 750 Acres Five more CA counties got added to the watch list today, PG&E is warning of random rolling blackouts tonight and tomorrow, and the lightning-caused fire in St. Helena has been named the Hennessey Fire, and it is still growing.
SF News 78-Year-Old Sonoma Man Goes Missing, Truck Found 65 Miles Away An at-risk elderly man left his Sonoma County home on Thursday intending to run an errand in downtown Sonoma, but he has yet to return. On Monday, the sheriff's department said that his car had been located 65 miles north, in Clearlake.
SF Politics New Attack Ad By Anti-Trump Republicans Confirms Trump Wanted To Cut Fire Assistance In CA For Political Reasons Remember when President Trump was spouting a lot of malarkey in November 2018 about how California needed to do better with "forest management" and that's why he wanted to cut off FEMA assistance after the devastating Camp Fire?
SF News Report: Pandemic Leads To Epidemic of Fentanyl Overdoses In SF The opioid crisis rages on in San Francisco's Tenderloin District and elsewhere across the Bay Area, despite being overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic in the last five months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beloved Richmond District Dim Sum Spot Ton Kiang Closes For Good After 42 Years Another longtime SF institution isn't waiting around to see what happens when people are allowed to dine indoors again. Ton Kiang, which has been serving excellent dim sum and fried chicken wings for four decades on Geary Boulevard, is calling it quits on August 30.
SF News Lightning Strikes Spark Multiple Fires in Napa, Knock Out Power In Healdsburg Monday morning thunderstorms have sparked multiple vegetation fires in Napa County, including a significant-looking one in the woods near St. Helena, and a lightning strike took out power for 11,000 customers in Healdsburg.
SF News Speaker Pelosi Calls Back House From Recess To Deal With Postal Service Crisis Yet again this year we will be seeing a standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump, as the House begins making the case that Trump and his new postmaster general have been deliberately sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the election.
