SF News Muni Train Service Halts Again Following Equipment Trouble, Key Personnel Testing COVID-Positive After only one weekday back in service, all Muni light-rail trains are going offline again for at least several weeks following an equipment failure on Monday, and a worker in the Muni Metro control center testing positive for COVID-19.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Most of the Redwoods In Big Basin Survived the Fire Most of the trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park appear to have survived the CZU fire complex, Alameda County is allowing hair salons to open outdoors, and former First Lady of SF Kimberly Guilfoyle gave a bizarre-ass speech at the RNC.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hundreds of Parks Closed Due to Fires The remains of a woman missing in a 2005 Placer County murder have been found, Northern California is short on firefighting personnel, and a sideshow broke out in the Mission late Saturday/early Sunday.
SF News The 10 Largest Wildfires In California History Were Neither the Deadliest Nor the Most Destructive The history of wildfires in both recent and less recent California memory is dotted with truly tragic events like the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as incomprehensibly large and destructive events that were not necessarily as tragic because few homes or people were lost to them.
SF News Court Overturns Death Penalty In Notorious 2004 Scott Peterson Case The California Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday upholding the murder conviction of Scott Peterson, who was convicted 16 years ago in the December 2002 killing of his pregnant wife, but it said his trial may have been unfair in the sentencing phase.
SF News First COVID Rapid-Testing Site For Airport Workers In the U.S. Comes to SFO San Francisco International Airport just became the first airport in the U.S. to offer rapid COVID-19 testing to all airport and airline employees, with results in an hour or less.
SF News Red Flag Warning Called Off and Firefighters Make Steady Progress Containing Three Major Wildfires Mother Nature has gone easy on us for once this month, and fears of overnight lightning storms failed to materialize, giving firefighters another night of calm, cool conditions to make progress on the three major fires burning in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
SF News First Weekday Of Major Muni Metro Changes Includes Overhead Wire Problem As of Saturday, August 22, Muni riders have been getting to see how some major changes are working on the Muni Metro train lines — and Monday morning all the new signs went up erasing the K and L lines from core-tunnel stations.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Air Quality In the East Bay Has Been Really Bad Zoom users experienced a major outage today, air quality remains terrible around SF, and a Vacaville man claims to have saved his property by spraying flames with Bud Light.
SF News Walbridge Fire Held Outside Of Guerneville and Healdsburg As High Winds Arrive; SCU Complex Prompts New Evacuation We are heading into a scary 48-hour period for the three massive wildfire complexes around the Bay Area as unstable air and possible thunderstorms move north from the remnants of Hurricane Genevieve.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Entire 2020 Wine Vintage Could Be Ruined By Smoke Taint From NorCal Fires The disparate wildfires raging in over a dozen counties in and around the Bay Area this August are happening before much of the grape harvest has even begun, threatening much of the vintage.
Arts & Entertainment Two-Year-Old, Six-Bedroom Home Atop Mount Sutro Asks $22 Million A teardown-and-rebuild project in Clarendon Heights that dates back to 2012, with the completed house now just two years old, has just hit the market for an eye-popping $22 million.
SF News Santa Cruz Fire Destroys Big Basin Lodge; Arsonist Arrested In Big Sur Fire That Has Now Burned 7,000 Acres The CZU Lightning Complex fires in San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties has forced the emergency evacuation of the UC Santa Cruz campus and displaced over 60,000 residents, and caused damage to the oldest state park in California.
SF News Forecast Suggests Small But Significant Chance Of More Thunderstorms Sunday Night Widespread lightning on Sunday and Monday from the remnants of a tropical storm in the Pacific has led to a nightmarish early fire season across NorCal. Now the remnants of yet another storm, formerly Hurricane Genevieve, pose another threat of lightning around the Bay Area.
Business & Tech Facebook Mulls 'Kill Switch' For Political Ads To Prevent Trump From Contesting Election Results Facebook is doing some disaster planning for the days and weeks after the election, given that all signs point to Donald Trump attempting to hold on to power by questioning the results of the election — should he, god willing, lose.
SF News North Bay Fire Complex Grows to 344 Square Miles, Claims Five Lives Firefighters began reaching some level of containment in the LNU Lightning Complex fires in Sonoma, Napa, and Solano counties Thursday night, but the level of destruction and death stemming from the fires has climbed to at least 480 structures and five lives.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: A Third Day Of Smoky Skies Air quality in SF will be at "orange" levels today, fire evacuees are eschewing shelters because of COVID, and the Golden State Killer's wife of 46 years speaks out for the first time since his arrest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zuckerberg Testifies Remotely In FTC Antitrust Probe Newsom's DNC appearance has been put on hold due to the wildfires, Uber's former chief of security has been charged for allegedly covering up a 2016 hack, and Zuckerberg was testifying before the FTC this week.
SF News Mondavi Fire Contained Quickly After Threatening Multiple Wineries A new wildfire erupted for unknown reasons in a field in the Napa Valley Thursday afternoon, nowhere near the footprint of the LNU Lightning Complex fires burning to the north and west.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink James Beard Foundation Announces That No Awards Will Be Given Out This Year; Michelin Stars Still Coming For the first time in its 30 years of hosting an Oscars-like awards ceremony for restaurants and chefs, the James Beard Foundation announced Thursday that it will not be bestowing any awards during its planned September 25 broadcast.
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.
