SF News Fire Updates: LNU Damage Map Released, SCU Complex Grows Overnight The SCU and LNU Lightning Complex fires have traded off the number-two and number-three spots a couple of times this week on the list of the biggest wildfires in California history. And once again the SCU Complex in the East/South Bays and the Central Valley has moved to the top.
Business & Tech Tesla Successfully Thwarts Russian Ransomware Attack A Tesla employee succeeded in thwarting a recent attempted malware hack of its computer systems, after bringing the attempt quickly to the attention of company brass and the FBI.
SF News Pipe Bomb Found Near Country Club in Santa Cruz Fire Zone In another weird twist in the realm of current wildfire stories around the Bay Area, firefighters doing "mop-up" work around the Boulder Creek Country Club in Santa Cruz County discovered an undetonated pipe bomb sitting in a tool box, along with other explosives.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Arrest Made In Santa Cruz Firefighter Wallet Theft A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Merced County has been shut down amid a COVID outbreak, Oakland is turning an old CCA dorm into affordable housing, and the Commitment March is happening in D.C.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Balks at Supes' Plan to Use Reserve Funds for City Worker Raises Accused Oakland and Santa Cruz shooter Steven Carrillo pleaded not guilty in the Santa Cruz shooting, a San Leandro classroom got Zoom-bombed, and the SF mayor and Board of Supervisors are in a budget battle.
SF News Surfers In Pacifica Describe Near Miss With Great White Shark A group of surfers floating off Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica last Tuesday say that an eight-foot great white shark swam right under them, and appeared to head for one female surfer on her board in particular.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Half Of SF Restaurants Are Non-Operational, Restaurant Receipts Down 84 Percent, According to Credit Card Data Outdoor dining and takeout still only amount to a fraction of the number of meals these restaurants would have been serving nightly during normal times.
SF Politics Pence Lies During RNC Speech Linking Oakland Shooting of Federal Officer With Protests, Instead of Right-Wing Fringe Group Vice President Mike Pence predictably lied multiple times during his speech at the RNC on Wednesday night. But perhaps most egregiously he tried to link the May 29 fatal shooting of a federal security officer in Oakland to the protests that were happening that night.
SF News Fire Updates: Gusty West Winds Approach As Containment Levels Rise On Bay Area Fire Complexes The largest of the lightning-sparked conflagrations in the Bay Area, which is once again the LNU Lightning Complex fires by about 200 acres, saw containment rise to 33 percent overnight, and one entire zone of the SCU Lightning Complex has been declared fully contained.
SF Politics Recalling Trump's Bizarre Behavior In 2016, Pelosi Says Biden Should Boycott Debates House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave some unprompted remarks during her weekly Thursday news conference suggesting that Joe Biden should skip all the scheduled debates with President Trump, saying that any event where Trump is included will be "an exercise in skulduggery."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland Protest Leads To More Vandalism A peaceful protest in Oakland last night in solidarity with Kenosha gave way to some vandalism, two men remain missing in the Santa Cruz fires, and Santa Clara County is extending its zero-bail order through January.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara Health Director Blasts CDC Over Testing Advice The weather will be warming up again this weekend, NBA Playoff games are postponed over Wisconsin protests, and Dr. Fauci says the CDC met with the Trump administration about new testing rules while he was in surgery.
Business & Tech Some SF Hotels Reopen to Accommodate Wildfire Evacuees at a Discount San Francisco's largely vacant hotels have an opportunity both to provide shelter to Bay Area residents displaced from their homes due to wildfire evacuation orders, and to make some revenue after months of nearly zero in the process.
SF News SFPD Seizes 29 Firearms, Meth and Other Narcotics In Outer Sunset Raid The San Francisco Police Department's Taraval Neighborhood Unit just announced the arrests of four SF residents and the seizure of over two dozen firearms, ammunition, and "various narcotics" following a raid on a residence last week.
Arts & Entertainment Inside Lands Broadcast To Feature Live Sets By Tycho, Sofi Tukker, Sharon Van Etten, and More The virtual version of Outside Lands, dubbed Inside Lands, will be airing this Friday and Saturday on Twitch — with organizers hoping that it reminds concertgoers how much they love the Golden Gate Park festival, and pushes them to purchase tickets for next year.
SF News Alleged Marin County Pedophile 'Sir Sicko' Arrested After Telling Undercover FBI Agent He Wanted To Film Murder Of Girl A Fairfax man and previously convicted sex offender has been charged in federal court after allegedly telling an undercover agent in an online chat that he wanted to rape and murder his ex-girlfriend as well as a five-year-old girl, and film the acts to sell online.
SF News Fire Updates: Some Evacuees Return Home In Napa and Sonoma; Armstrong Redwoods Largely OK Containment on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay grew overnight on Tuesday, and evacuation orders began to be lifted in parts of the North Bay that either burned last week or were largely spared.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Dolan Fire May Have Destroyed Condor Sanctuary A Daly City man has been charged in federal court in a tire-dumping scheme involving tariffs, wildfire victims can now apply for federal assistance, and three people were killed in a fiery crash in Walnut Creek Tuesday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Squaw Valley To Drop Its Racist Name Squaw Valley will officially be dropping the name its had for 71 years after realizing it's offensive, Folsom Street is getting weekly Sunday street closures through October, and Wise Sons is merging with Oakland's Beauty's Bagels.
Arts & Entertainment Compton's Cafeteria Riot Anniversary Marked With 'Black Trans Lives Matter' Mural in Tenderloin At the heart of still in-development Transgender District in the Tenderloin, and right at the intersection where Compton's Cafeteria once stood, activists and volunteers painted a mural on Sunday using the colors of the transgender flag.
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist/Prankster Puts Tiny Saxophones On the Ground for Pigeons to 'Play' The local artist and graphic designer responsible for those realistic-looking AirPod stickers that showed up on the ground around SF last fall has a new bit of tomfoolery to distract us from our pandemic/wildfire misery.
SF News Gang of Santa Cruz Natives Forms Amateur Fire Brigade, Claiming Cal Fire Isn't Doing Enough A volunteer group of amateur firefighters is taking it upon themselves to try to save homes in and around Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County, as the state's firefighting resources are stretched thin with too many fires to battle.
SF News New York Times SF Bureau Chief Is Already Very Tired Of Covering Fires Thomas Fuller, the San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times for the last four years, has been stuck covering wildfires for the last three very active fire seasons — and then came this one, starting off good and early. He is sounding really quite exhausted with it all.
Arts & Entertainment Mission's Carnaval Becomes Job Fair and COVID-Testing Event This year's Carnaval in the Mission, moved from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend, will look a lot different than most years, but there may be a few dancers passing through.
SF News Firefighters Slowly Increase Containment On Bay Area Fires Amid Favorable Weather Lower temperatures, higher humidity, and relatively calm winds have allowed firefighters to begin to get the upper hand on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay. But the smaller Woodward Fire in Marin County continues burning and threatening homes.
