Business & Tech Day Around the Bay: Uber Self-Driving Car Operator Charged In Arizona Killing A federally funded Berkeley lab has stopped its diversity training due to Trump's order, Tom Steyer is selling his Pac Heights mansion for $11 million, and Oregon is being threatened with dry lightning.
SF News City Looks to Buy 232-Unit Lower Nob Hill SRO and Turn It Into Supportive Housing With the help of a state grant, San Francisco may purchase a large single-room-occupancy hotel building that for years has been a senior-housing complex.
SF News Muni Bus Drivers Complain That Buses Are Getting Too Crowded Even with ridership down by two-thirds, on popular bus routes and bus shuttles that replace the shutdown light-rail lines, some drivers say things are too close for comfort with passengers.
SF Politics There Is an Election Scenario In Which the House Will Choose the President, and One In Which Pelosi Becomes President A LOT has been written in recent weeks about nightmare scenarios with this sitting president as we approach this nightmare election in a year rife with nightmares. But there are a few positive details enshrined in the Constitution for crises like this that might provide some comfort.
SF News Harrowing Details Emerge From Surviving Crew In Last Year's Channel Islands Boat Fire It's been almost exactly a year since 34 people perished in a fire aboard a scuba tour boat off the Santa Barbara coast, many of them Bay Area and Santa Cruz residents, and now details have emerged from the NTSB investigation.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Officials Pledge New Crackdown On Sideshows Some Santa Clara County business owners are lobbying for faster "red" tier reopening, almost everyone in the CZU Lightning Complex fire zone has returned home, and all Yoga Tree studios are remaining closed indefinitely.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Man On Trial For Killing Italian Cop Offers Apology to Family Pharma company Eli Lilly announced very promising results for a COVID treatment, a five-alarm fire did heavy damage to a building in Oakland's Chinatown, and 20-year-old Finnegan Elder offered an apology in court to the family of the Italian cop he killed in Rome last July.
Arts & Entertainment Movie Theaters Are Open In Napa, More Opening In Marin On Friday In keeping with the state guidelines for reopening for "red" tier counties, at least two movie theaters in Napa County reopened for business last week at 25-percent capacity. More are now set to open in San Rafael and elsewhere in Marin County after it reached "red" status on Tuesday.
SF News Event Company at Former Market Street Honda Dealership Seen Conducting Unsanctioned Sweep of Homeless Camp A private company allegedly took it upon themselves last week to clear out an encampment that had been established for about six months outside the former Honda dealership on Market Street at South Van Ness.
Business & Tech Celebrities Are Taking a Day Off of Instagram and Facebook to Protest Hate Speech and Yeah That Should Work Kim Kardashian West, Jennifer Lawrence, and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the celebrities leading a charge to boycott Facebook and Instagram for a day. But is a one-day boycott really sending a message that a monthslong boycott by high-paying advertisers hasn't?
SF News [Update] Bizarre Blowtorch Attack at Berkeley Boba Tea Shop Followed By Knife, Axe Threats An apparently homeless man walked into a boba tea shop in downtown Berkeley and lit some WD-40 on fire in an attempt to torch several students who were waiting in line.
SF News Bay Area Air Quality Clears As Smoky Air Blows Into Nevada and Tahoe Exactly a week after San Franciscans woke up to a dystopian, dark-orange sky, the city arose to fresh air and blueish/foggy sky on Wednesday morning. How sweet it is.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Five People Shot Near San Jose State Campus Two people were killed in a shooting near San Jose State Tuesday night, UCSF is seeking study participants for an app-based location-tracing effort for COVID-19, and more than a dozen SF schools may be reopening for in-person teaching soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro Landlord Demands Back Rent From Retail Tenants Berkeley hills residents are freaked out by illegal fireworks being set off during fire season on Grizzly Peak, a Castro landlord is apparently demanding back rent from retail tenants, and the World Series will be played in a bubble in Arlington, Texas.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Will the SF Restaurant Industry Threaten Legal Action to Reopen Like Gyms Did? It's certainly a dicey subject across the nation, and there's still far too little data to say for certain whether indoor restaurant dining is a recipe for disaster in this pandemic, or a mitigated risk.
SF News Mayor Breed on COVID Rules: 'I’m Tired of Doing All the Things You Are Tired of Doing' Six months into a pandemic, with ongoing restrictions on what businesses can be open and how and when, Mayor London Breed knows that even in mostly compliant, science-trusting San Francisco, people are reaching the end of their ropes in many cases.
Arts & Entertainment British Woman Completes Solo Rowing Trip From SF to Hawaii In 86 Days Despite two capsizes and some harrowing stories of nearly giving up, 40-year-old Lia Ditton just completed a solo row from the San Francisco Bay to Honolulu in 86 days, 11 days longer than she'd planned.
SF News PG&E Admits That Rolling Blackouts In August Were Partly Due to a F**k-Up By Them Even though pre-announced rolling blackouts due to overloads of the electrical grid were not as severe or prolonged as they sounded like they would be last month, PG&E did have to cut off power for some communities due to what they now say was an internal communications error.
SF News Data Shows Black People Are Pulled Over By SF Cops at an Even Higher Rate Than Three Years Ago Data from a recent KGO/ABC 7 investigation shows that Black people continue to be pulled over by SF police at a much higher rate than white people — and higher than even a few years ago.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Air Getting Slightly More Tolerable The deYoung Museum is reopening on September 25, four CHP officers likely exposed to fentanyl on Sunday on the Golden Gate Bridge are out of the hospital, and a doctor says breathing this air is equivalent to 8 cigarettes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ann Getty Dies at 79 Longtime society figure and arts patron Ann Getty died suddenly on Sunday night, there's a movement to put a Black-owned NFL team in Oakland, and SF's gyms and hair salons are happy to be back open.
SF News Another Theory Emerges That Coronavirus Arrived In California In December Another small study out of UCLA suggests that Los Angeles may have seen its first COVID cases before Christmas without anyone realizing it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Trick Dog Pivots To Become Quik Dog, With To-Go Food and a Pared-Down Cocktail Menu Knowing that the pandemic will likely keep the bar itself from reopening indoors anytime soon and crafting its cocktail artistry in keeping with its established brand, Trick Dog is reopening for now under a slightly different guise and concept: Quik Dog.
SF News Air Quality in San Francisco May Continue To Suck Until Mid-Week Smoky air looks to be persisting across the Bay Area until the middle of this week, when — finally — some clean ocean air should begin moving, possibly along with a light storm system and some rain.
SF Politics Trump Lands In Sacramento For Wildfire Briefing, Gets Greeted By Protesters Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
