SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Woman Struck By Car in Portola A woman was struck by a car outside a Portola nightclub, the Chevron refinery in Richmond did more early morning flaring, and the first coronavirus case among American evacuees in quarantine has been confirmed in San Diego.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tartine Declines to Recognize Union Tartine is hoping employees reconsider the union effort, the Board of Supes is considering a 20-year lease for a Navigation Center for homeless youth in the Tenderloin, and Berkeley High students walked out to protest rape culture.
SF News New Flower Mart to Rise In Potrero Instead of 395 Units of Housing The six-year-old battle over the San Francisco Flower Mart appears close to a resolution today, however it looks like it's happening at the expense of a lot of housing, which is a damn shame.
SF Politics Mohammed Nuru Has Resigned From His Post at Public Works While there have been calls in the last two weeks for Mayor London Breed to fire embattled Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, she said that she had to follow proper procedure — and now Nuru has resigned of his own accord.
SF News Local Hospitals Prepare for Coronavirus Patients; Richmond Lab Begins Testing While there has yet to be a case of the Wuhan/novel coronavirus in San Francisco, health officials are preparing for the possibility that a case will appear here.
SF News Chevron Refinery Conducts Flaring, Briefly Evacuates Employees Something went down Monday morning at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, and it led to some flaring — the practice of safely burning excess hydrocarbon gases that comes with dramatic flames shooting out of smokestacks and the release of smoke.
SF News BART Adds Ambassadors, Switches Up Some Train Schedules Starting Today Today is the first day for the pilot BART Ambassadors program, so commuters may begin seeing the unarmed outreach personnel patrolling trains in search of quality-of-life infractions. Also, some train schedules are shifting for commuters between SF and the East Bay.
SF News Crazy Wind Storm Knocks Down 15 Trees and 9 Power Lines On One Castro Valley Street An East Bay neighborhood was partially evacuated due to collapsing trees and downed power lines. And that 209-mph wind gust recorded at Kirkwood may have been the result of an equipment error.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Off-Duty FBI Agent Shoots Man In Haight-Asbury Fight Three people died in house fires in Oakland and Vacaville overnight, a hit-and-run driver was arrested in Richmond, and a new SFPD "foot beat office" has opened in mid-Market.
SF News Moms 4 Housing Founder Is Daughter Of Homeless Woman Gifted a Piedmont In-Law Unit Last Year You may recall the story of a homeless couple, Greg Dunston and Marie Mckinzie, who last year were taken in by a wealthy Piedmont homeowner who offered them his empty in-law unit to stay in for free. Now there's a twist in the tale.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It's Going to Be Windy Expect traffic around downtown SF for the Chinese New Year Parade Saturday, Contra Costa County sheriff's deputy has resigned amid a texting scandal, Trump's Justice Department has dropped its fuel efficiency probe, and morale at Juul Labs is bad.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 10 SF Beer Week Events You Should Check Out Starting Saturday, there are nine more days of events all over the Bay Area — dinners, tap takeovers, special releases, category-specific fests, and more.
Business & Tech Apple Fined $27M In France For Purposely Slowing Down Older iPhones Apple has agreed to pay a 25 million euro fine (about $27 million) in a case brought by French regulators concerning the now widely known — and widely derided — practice of using software updates to slow down older iPhones and push people to buy newer models.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink California Is Growing Too Many Grapes, Causing Prices to Fall Two Years In a Row A combination of factors including new technologies, higher plant yields, and too much optimism about the demand for wine has led to a glut of grapes in California.
SF Politics SF Unlikely To Get Navigation Centers In Every District Despite Supervisor's Push Supervisor Matt Haney has been saying for over a year that there ought to be a homeless Navigation Center in each of San Francisco's 11 supervisorial districts. But legislation Haney has drafted that would make this a mandate appears to have been stalled in committee.
SF Politics Democrats Call on Twitter and Facebook To Remove Doctored Pelosi Video Posted By Trump Facebook and Twitter are being asked to stand up to President Trump and abide by their own rules against deepfakes after the president posted a misleadingly edited video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's ripping up of the State of the Union speech Tuesday night.
SF News Bay Area Family Self-Quarantines Out of Complete Coronavirus Paranoia A Bay Area family that likely had no exposure to the Wuhan coronavirus is now quarantined of their own volition, at home, after taking a flight to Singapore and canceling a trip on a cruise ship.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Acquitted Ghost Ship Defendant Speaks Out Another evacuation flight from Wuhan stopped off at Travis Air Force Base, Muni is considering building operator housing on land it owns, and Keanu Reeves was spotted filming the 'Matrix 4' outside Cafe Zoetrope.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Human Trafficking Ring Busted In South Bay Coronavirus fears won't dampen this weekend's Chinese New Year festivities, AB5 may get loosened for writers and photographers, and 16 "johns" and a pimp were arrested in a human trafficking sting in the South Bay.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Beer Week Gala to Feature Hard Seltzers For the First Time Some will call it a sacrilege. Others will call it a sign of our calorie-conscious times. But for the first time since its inception, SF Beer Week's opening gala will feature a handful of the beer industry's most controversial new competitor beverage, hard seltzer.
SF News All Flights Between SFO and China Will Stop For At Least Six Weeks Starting late next week, there will be no flights at all landing from China at SFO, and no way to fly directly there from San Francisco either, as the coronavirus crisis worsens.
SF News Notoriously Sketchy Haight Street McDonald's Fully Demolished The infamous McDonald's at Haight and Stanyan is now completely gone, as the building was razed and the site is now almost fully cleared to make way for an affordable housing development.
Business & Tech Bay Area-Based Gilead Sees Potential Legal Conflict With China Over Its Coronavirus Drug The Foster City-based pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, which specializes in antiviral drugs, recently donated some of its experimental drug remdesivir for use in studying potential treatments for the Wuhan coronavirus.
SF News 18-Year-Old In Concord Confesses To Killing His Mother An 18-year-old man was arrested in Concord Wednesday night after calling police to his home and allegedly telling them that he had just murdered his mother.
SF News PG&E Is Still Operating a 'Rickety' Power Line With Rusted Parts Near the One That Sparked the Camp Fire An expert hired by wildfire victims' attorneys recently did an independent inspection of PG&E power lines that are still operational in the vicinity of Paradise, California, and they have found one in terrible shape just 100 yards from the Caribou-Palermo line which sparked the 2018 Camp Fire.
