SF News After 38 Dry Days, Rain On the Way to the Bay Area Saturday Morning Some rain is headed our way, finally, in the early hours of Saturday, ending a record-setting dry spell.
SF News Cruise Ship With Possible Coronavirus Cases Being Held Offshore The Grand Princess, the Princess Cruises ship that made a roundtrip from San Francisco to Mexico in mid-February and returned with at least two passengers sick with the coronavirus, is currently being held off the California coast as testing of 21 passengers showing symptoms takes place.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Warren Bows Out Two more tech conferences scheduled at the Moscone Center have canceled, Sonoma County is trying to locate 100 people possibly exposed to the coronavirus, and Starbucks won't refill your personal mugs anymore, for now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden State Killer May Plead Guilty Elizabeth Warren is said to be weighing her options about continuing her candidacy for president, Gov. Newsom has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus, and Olivier Adella (the accused accomplice in the Keith Green murder) may get deported.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gott's Roadside Burgers Unveils New Chase Center Location We have new details about an upcoming food addition to Thrive City, in the plaza outside the Chase Center, and it's Gott's Roadside.
SF News Rundown Potrero Hill Shack (and Its Land) Sells For $1.975M Some land on Potrero Hill with an uninhabitable shack on it has just sold for well under its initial asking price of $2.5 million.
SF News Tourists Keep Coming to SF Despite Many Stories About the City Going to Hell Despite reams of articles declaring the death of San Francisco amid sky-high rents, economic inequality, homelessness and open-air drug use, the city's tourism numbers were actually up in 2019.
SF Politics The Castro Voted For Warren, Much Of SF Went For Bernie Preliminary results are in from Tuesday's primary election in San Francisco, and while Bernie Sanders won a plurality with 39,571 votes (32.72%), Elizabeth Warren did quite well here with about as many votes as Joe Biden.
SF News First CA Coronavirus Death Linked To Roundtrip Cruise From SF to Mexico; Ship Returns Here Thursday The first death from covid-19 in the state of California happened in Placer County as we learned Wednesday morning, and now it's being reported that the man who died was on the same cruise to Mexico as the Sonoma County case reported Monday.
SF News Fancy Bay Area Private Schools Close Over Coronavirus Concerns The Menlo School in Atherton just announced that all classes, athletic events, and field trips are cancelled through this weekend after a school staff member revealed that they came in contact with a relative who had tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News Another Muni Meltdown Destroys Morning Commute A track-switching problem caused headaches for commuters on Muni Wednesday morning, with trains slowed to a crawl, bus shuttles trying to fill in gaps, and lots of San Franciscans late for work.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Bye, Bloomberg Prop 13 (the school bond measure) looks headed for defeat, Santa Clara County has two more coronavirus cases, and Bernie Sanders appears to have won California.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Downtown SF Workers Deemed Coronavirus 'Contacts' Berkeley marks its first coronavirus case in a returning traveler from Italy, a downtown SF building gets notified of a couple potentially exposed workers, CHP helps the OPD catch some alleged carjackers, and the deets on tonight's Election Night parties in SF.
SF News Major Accident Closes Three Eastbound Lanes On Bay Bridge Seriously impacting the commute out of SF toward the East Bay this evening is a major crash just past Treasure Island on the eastbound, upper deck of the Bay Bridge.
Arts & Entertainment Shel Silverstein's Sausalito Houseboat Hits the Market Again, Post Renovation Three years after hitting the market for under $400,000, a funky houseboat in Sausalito once owned by the poet and author Shel Silverstein is getting flipped with an asking price of $783,000.
Arts & Entertainment As Mashable, Facebook, and Intel Back Out, Talk Turns to SXSW Maybe Getting Canceled South By Southwest 2020 may become the next high-profile casualty of the coronavirus pandemic on people's event calendars as more companies say they're backing out of the event which is supposed to kick off next week.
SF News London Breed Issues Letter to Mike Pence Calling Administration Response to Virus 'Anemic' San Francisco Mayor London Breed publicly slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for its failure of leadership with regard to the growing coronavirus pandemic.
Arts & Entertainment Golden Gate Park Welcomes Five New Baby Bison! In addition to the 150-foot Ferris wheel we have to look forward to as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of Golden Gate Park next month, Rec and Parks will also be officially introducing five new bison yearlings, doubling the size of the local herd.
SF Politics What You Need To Know About Prop D, the Retail Vacancy Tax There are several local ballot propositions you'll be voting on today if you still do things the old fashioned way and go to an actual polling place, and perhaps none of them is more significant than Prop D.
SF News Super Tuesday Topline: Biden Swings Through Oakland Willie Brown says Biden should have done more campaigning in the Bay Area, cruise to Mexico breaks out in chaos after two people get the flu, and San Jose detectives dug up a Los Gatos parking lot for a cold case.
Bay Area Sports Day Around the Bay: Steph Curry Likely Back In Game On Thursday A bald eagle hatched at the SF Zoo is alive and well in the wild at age 20, the Saturday Burlingame sidewalk collision gets a new detail, Mission bar Amnesia went out with a bang on Saturday, and Waymo gets $2.5B in outside investment.
SF News DA's Office Will Not Be Charging 20-Year-Old Suspect Who Video'd Attack On Asian Man The 20-year-old San Francisco man arrested following the February 22 attack on a 68-year-old Asian man — and the one who recorded the incident on his cellphone and can apparently be heard saying "I hate Asians" — will face "restorative justice."
SF News Anticipating First Local Cases, SF Opens Public Coronavirus Testing Lab Unfortunately for the local paranoiac community including myself, there will be no on-demand testing for the coronavirus at the new SF facility, but test turnaround time will go down to one or two days from seven.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Famed Healdsburg Dining Destination Cyrus To Be Revived In Geyserville After multiple promises to reopen and some false starts, chef Douglas Keane has just inked a deal to reopen his acclaimed Cyrus restaurant in new digs near its original Healdsburg location.
SF News Virus Death Toll Hits Six In Washington State; New Cases In Sonoma and Santa Clara Counties All of the deaths from the coronavirus so far in the U.S. — now a total of six — have occurred in Washington State, suggesting that the undetected hot spot there is further along in the virus's cycle than elsewhere.
