SF News Three Major Bay Wildfires Now At or Near Full Containment, Five and a Half Weeks Later The destructive CZU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties was declared fully, 100-percent contained on Wednesday, five and a half weeks after it was sparked and 86,000 scorched acres later.
SF News Humpday Headlines: One-Shot Vaccine Begins Large Final Trial Johnson & Johnson has begun a final-stage trial of its one-shot COVID vaccine in 60,000 volunteers, Newsom is making a big climate announcement today, and the Giants hold on to a wild-card spot.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area To Hit 100,000 COVID Cases A City Hall employee has resigned in a weird case involving emails and a discrimination suit, SF officials thought the city would enter "orange" tier status today, and Santa Clara County just became the first in CA to make Juneteenth a paid holiday.
SF Politics Bill Graham Civic Auditorium To Become Voting Center With Outdoor Booths, Ballot Drop Boxes The city's Department of Elections is making plans for socially distanced voting booths, and how to process a surfeit of absentee and mail-in ballots. And if you still haven't registered on Election Day, you can still do it outside Bill Graham and vote!
SF News Party House Rental In Sonoma Became Scene of 4 a.m. Shooting That Damaged Homes A vacation rental just outside the city limits of Sonoma played host to a Friday night party with dozens of guests from outside the county, and the party ended with at least 30 shots fired.
SF News Bay Area Now 78% 'Red' On State's COVID-19 Reopening Map As of Tuesday, three more Bay Area counties joined the four already in the second or "red" tier of the state's pandemic monitoring map, meaning that they're eligible to reopen indoor dining, churches, and gyms at limited capacity, and more.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor David Campos Takes Job as DA's Chief of Staff The former SF supervisor who preceded Hillary Ronen in representing the Mission and Bernal Heights, David Campos, has just landed a new gig working for District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
SF News Looking For an Apartment In San Francisco? Ask For a Lot Because Landlords Are Desperate Three months free rent? No problem. Free Peloton bike? Totally on the table. Prospective tenants are getting all kinds of concessions as SF rents fall 20-percent year over year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Romney's No Hero A vegetation fire prompted evacuations in Belmont yesterday, Trump is still saying the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody," and Facebook is ready to lock down communication amid post-election violence and unrest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hot Weather This Weekend Could Bring More Scary Winds The CDC was once again dicking around regarding COVID transmission guidance, there's a vigil tonight for a 16-year-old Oakland girl killed last week, and a WWII bomber crash-landed in Stockton on Saturday on its way back from Hawaii.
Arts & Entertainment Insanely, Cruise Companies Are Looking at Sailing Again as Soon as November San Francisco isn't likely to see cruise ships in the Bay anytime before next spring at the very earliest, but cruise companies are already talking about October 31 being a possible restart date for an industry that just five months ago was synonymous with contagion.
SF News Two Days After the City Pledged a Crackdown, Sideshow With 100 Cars Goes Down In Bayview Another illegal sideshow happened around 1 a.m. Sunday in the Bayview District, during which some shots were fired — possibly just into the air. The SFPD apparently didn't make it there fast enough to shut it down right away, even though they established a new unit for this last week.
SF News Video: Mountain Lion Seen Stalking Little Kids In Broad Daylight In Pacifica Over the weekend, a Pacifica resident captured video of a mountain lion — possibly a juvenile — crouched in his yard apparently watching children playing on their bikes outside.
SF News Rash of Home Burglaries Rattles North Beach, Other SF Neighborhoods San Francisco residents in multiple neighborhoods report signs and stories of multiple burglaries, as thieves may be trying to take advantage of a large percentage of residents who have temporarily fled the city.
SF News SF, North Bay Air Quality to Improve By Monday Afternoon as Marine Air Kicks Up Cool air will prevail for most of this week, as the marine layer off the San Francisco coast gathers some strength after remaining pretty weak for two days. But then more hot weather may be on its way.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Catholics Protest Ban on Indoor Worship Pelosi says "we would win it all" if the election were tomorrow, damages are being assessed in the North Complex fire, and hospitals in the Bay Area say they are starting to see their first flu cases of the season.
SF Politics Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead. We're All Doomed. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87 of complications from the recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer that she first revealed in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Dude Tried to Carjack an Ambulance in the Tenderloin Don't expect all small restaurants (like Frances) to rush open if they're allowed to at 25% capacity, a suspect is in custody after a mid-day stabbing on BART, and a male suspect tried to carjack an ambulance in the Tenderloin early Friday morning.
SF News A Company Called 'Snowflake' Projected Its Name On City Hall, and the City is Now Mad A San Mateo-based "cloud-based data-warehousing startup" found a vendor that claimed they could project the company's name on the SF City Hall dome on Wednesday night in celebration of their IPO, and city officials don't understand how this happened.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District LGBTQ Bar El Rio Wins Grant to Stay Afloat From HRC and Showtime Some good news for the world of SF queer bars for a change! El Rio has just won a grant from the Human Rights Commission and Showtime's "Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative," which will hopefully help the bar stay afloat as it continues to remain closed.
SF Politics Following Op-Ed Pushing to Reopen Churches, Pelosi Tells SF Archbishop to Settle Down and Listen to Science San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone continues doing his level best to prove his conservative credentials and alienate the majority of people in the city he represents.
SF News Air Quality Will Not Hold As Temperatures Rise With High-Pressure System This Weekend Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Mayor and Health Director Say Indoor Dining May Be Allowed Within Two Weeks Restaurant owners have been waiting on pins and needles — and a pile of debt — to be told when San Francisco would allow indoor dining spaces to reopen to the public again. And it sounds like end of September/early October is it.
SF Politics Pair of Businessmen Who Sought Contract For Asphalt Recycling Plant Charged In SF City Hall Corruption Probe The number of individuals facing federal charges in the ongoing San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal rose to eight this week, as two local businessmen were charged with bribing former Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Census Counting Cut Short TikTok is leaving the Apple and Google app stores under Trump's orders, the North Complex fire is now the fifth largest in state history as well as the fifth deadliest, and Census enumerators in SF say they were told there was no more work in August.
