SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Update: SF Supervisors Approve Phase 2 Variance to Reopen Bars In July San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is considering seeking a variance from the state in order to give the county health officer more leeway in including certain types of businesses in the upcoming phases of reopening.
SF News Uber Passenger Arrested for Battery and Carjacking After Driver Pulls Off Freeway to Pick Up Another Fare Some key details are a little unclear, but a Belmont man was arrested Friday night in what police are saying was an argument over an itinerary change that led to a violent exchange between an Uber passenger and a driver.
SF Politics SF District Attorney to Stop Filing Charges In Cases That Rely on Testimony From Problematic Cops San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced a new policy on Monday aimed at correcting the wrongs of over-policing and unjust prosecutions of people of color.
SF News Significant Explosion Turns Stinson Beach Into 'Warzone,' Temporarily Closes Highway 1 An unexplained explosion Tuesday morning blew the front off of a building on the main drag in Stinson Beach, shook the town like an earthquake, and caused a fire that spread to neighboring businesses.
SF News Sheriff Releases Video Footage Of Woman Shot By Officers In Half Moon Bay The woman who was reported to have shot at San Mateo County sheriff's deputies with a shotgun, and who was then fatally shot by deputies herself on May 5 in Half Moon Bay, has been identified as 56-year-old Sandra Lee Harmon.
SF News Inexpensive Steroid Is First Drug Proven to Reduce COVID Mortality Rates In the race to find effective treatments for COVID-19, a team at the University of Oxford has found that a low-cost — or as one BBC commentator put it "cheap-as-chips" — steroid called dexamethasone has proven to reduce deaths by a third among patients on ventilators.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: PG&E to Plead Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter PG&E is entering a guilty plea in Butte County court today, SF Mayor London Breed is introducing a new business tax reform measure, and the SFPD says it will stop releasing most booking photos.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Berkeley to Rename Two Elementary Schools In Honor of BLM Accused Golden State Killer Joseph James DeAngelo has reportedly agreed to a plea deal, Matt Haney questions why Caltrans has to remove "Black Lives Matter" from the Bay Bridge, and Berkeley is renaming its Jefferson and Washington elementary schools.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dobbs Ferry Closes Permanently in Hayes Valley; Walzwerk Closes After 21 Years There are two more permanent restaurant closures to rack up in SF. One is the 21-year-old East German restaurant Walzwerk in the Mission, and the other is nine-year-old Dobbs Ferry in Hayes Valley.
SF News Pandemic Updates: Newsom Touts Low Statewide 'Percent-Positive' Figure Today in COVID-19 news around the Bay Area and the state, San Francisco recorded two new deaths over the weekend, the daily rate of new cases across the region has remained steady for a month, and Governor Newsom warns of upticks as the economy reopens.
SF Politics Bay Area Officials and Lawmakers React to Stunning Supreme Court Decision on LGBTQ Rights In many ways, the decision announced today by a Supreme Court with a 5-4 conservative majority marks the most significant legal milestone yet for LGTBQ people. Not everyone wants or needs to get married, but virtually everyone needs to find employment.
SF News Oakland Residents Divided On Saving/Euthanizing Aggressive Wild Turkey In Rose Garden The park has been closed by the city out of concerns for peoples' safety, and the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife has approved a "depredation" permit that would allow the city to humanely euthanize the bird if its behavior does not change.
SF News LA Public Health Officials Failed to Inform Airline Passengers of COVID-Positive Case On JFK-LAX Flight in March In a pair of cases of systemic failure in the California public health system, passengers on two flights into LAX in March — and the airlines themselves — were not alerted to the fact that someone on board a long-haul flight had tested positive for COVID-19 after landing.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Supreme Court Suprises With LGBT Protections A suspect stole a construction vehicle and drove it across the Bay Bridge, Oakland police are seeking around 100 suspects in some Friday night vandalism, and SCOTUS has ruled that LGBTQ people deserve job protections under Title VII.
SF News Update: Car Caravan Blocks All Westbound Lanes of Bay Bridge As Protesters Spraypaint Lanes Protesters, reportedly in a car caravan, shut down the upper deck of the Bay Bridge early Sunday evening, creating a backup that extended past Treasure Island and into the East Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Black Lives Matter' Painted Down Fulton Street In SF 24-Hour Fitness is permanently closing 11 Bay Area locations including four in SF, the city is allowing offices to reopen with strict guidelines starting Monday, and volunteers are painting Black Lives Matter down Fulton Street near SF City Hall.
SF News Three Dozen Workers Test COVID-Positive at One East Bay Hospital At least 37 healthcare workers at one hospital in Hayward tested positive for COVID-19 in late May, and a majority of them worked together in the same medical/surgical/telemetry unit.
Arts & Entertainment Coachella 2020 Officially Canceled; BottleRock and Outside Lands Still Technically on the Books News that there will in fact be no Coachella in October arrived on Thursday, confirming what had been rumored for weeks. And curiously, Outside Lands organizers have gone another week without addressing the obvious.
SF Politics Hotel Relocations for Tenderloin Homeless Part of Lawsuit Settlement Between City and UC Hastings The relocation of at least a dozen people living in tents on sidewalks on Thursday appears to be part of a settlement just announced between UC Hastings — which sued the city last month over the increasing level of squalor in the neighborhood — and the City of San Francisco.
SF News Santa Cruz Shooting Suspect Preached Libertarian Ideals, Was Pushed Over the Edge By Police Actions Against Protesters, Friends Say The Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy last Saturday, had been ranting on social media and making references to an extremist group that espouses anti-government, anti-law-enforcement views.
SF News BART Service to North San Jose Begins Saturday, Several Decades and $2.3 Billion Later True to form, BART has finally cleared miles of red tape and hurdled past legions of complications to extend train service to San Jose for the first time in the middle of a pandemic when South Bay commuters need it least. But they did it, dammit!
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Kamala Looking Likelier As VP Pick A cliff rescue was underway this morning near the Legion of Honor, a pedestrian was killed near the Bay Bridge toll plaza early today, and Kamala Harris has emerged as the likeliest running-mate pick for Joe Biden.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Director Denies That BART Police Murdered Anyone An alleged Chinese spy who infiltrated a lab at UCSF was just arrested, two teens are in critical condition after an Ocean Beach rescue, and rage-inducing BART Director Debora Allen apparently does not know that there were murder charges in the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Restaurants Get Ready for New Al Fresco Era — Here's a Running List Of Who Will Be Open At least two dozen SF restaurants have announced plans to reopen, with a few ready to start taking guests as soon as Friday, June 12. We are keeping a list that will be updated in the coming days.
SF News Homeless Moved Into Hotels In Coordinated City Operation In the Tenderloin SF's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and the Department of Public Works were approaching about a dozen homeless people on the streets of the Tenderloin on Thursday, and offering them shuttle bus rides to a nearby hotel.
