Arts & Entertainment Multiple Whales Were Breaching Wildly In Monterey Bay Right After Tuesday Earthquake Moments after the Tuesday afternoon 4.7M earthquake near Hollister, at least seven humpback whales were spotted simultaneously breaching, six of them in pairs, off the Monterey coast. Coincidence?
SF News SF Sends Out Citywide Alert Test to Everyone's Cellphone, Slightly Late On Thursday evening, a scheduled test of a new citywide emergency alert system took place, 30 to 60 minutes behind schedule, but nonetheless seemingly successfully. Still, it freaked a lot of people out.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Lake County Wildfire Contained PG&E will sit down with regulators in SF today, another Bay Area resident has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and a 25-acre wildfire that prompted an evacuation in Lake County last night has been contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: City College Evacuated For Bomb Threat The city of SF has filed a motion to dismiss the NRA's lawsuit over that 'domestic terrorist' designation, Juul suspends internet sales of fruity vape pods, and no one knows what bad things we breathed in because of the refinery fire.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Bay Area Residents Remember Where They Were When The Quake Struck To wrap up our commemorative coverage of the Loma Prieta earthquake today, SFist brings you some memories sent in from readers of what their October 17, 1989 experiences were like here in the Bay Area.
SF News Hayward Fault Earthquake Scenario Imagines 52,000 Homes On Fire, 800 Deaths In commemorating the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, it can't be all about the memories and history. A bigger earthquake is going to hit the Bay Area, and we can't be in denial about the kind of destruction it could leave behind.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: 'I Was the Guy Driving the Pickup Behind the Disappearing Car in the Video on the Bay Bridge' An immediately famous bit of video shot on the Bay Bridge in the moments after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake showed two cars driving on the damaged eastern span, with one, a sedan, dropping into the gap created when a 50-foot segment of the upper deck collapsed.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch a Menagerie of Creatures Feasting on a Whale Carcass Near Monterey Bay While exploring Davidson Seamount, an undersea mountain off the Central California coast, researchers with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary came upon an active feeding frenzy.
SF News Earthquake Early Warning System Launches 13 Years After Project Began Today, on the 30th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, Governor Gavin Newsom, State Senator Jerry Hill, and a group of scientists announced the official launch of California's Earthquake Early Warning System.
SF News Gang of Suspects In Halloween Masks Attempt Two Assaults In Noe Valley A group of men in a white or silver SUV, some wearing Halloween masks, attempted assaults on two men walking on the street in Noe Valley Monday night.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: BART Train Operator's Leg Crushed In Accident Another small earthquake strikes near Hollister, it's back to the drawing board for the Maya Angelou statue, and Rep. Elijah Cummings has died at age 68.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oceanwide Halts Construction On Waldorf-Astoria Hotel A 22-year-old man fell to his death during a rooftop Blue Angels party, Zuckerberg is doing a livestream Thursday morning, and Chinese developer Oceanwide looks to be cutting part of its Oceanwide Center project downtown.
SF News Loma Prieta at 30: Remembering the Horror of the Cypress Freeway Collapse As we get set to mark the 30th anniversary of the earthquake that massively shook the Bay Area on October 17, 1989, we're taking a moment to retell the history of the biggest tragedy of that day, via CHP footage and interviews with those who witnessed it.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Ittoryu Gozu, a Prix Fixe Wagyu Joint, Begins Taking Reservations For November Hear ye, all fans of gloriously marbled Japanese beef. A restaurant featuring five- and ten-course prix fixe experiences centering on different preparations of Wagyu beef is set to open downtown on November 12.
SF News Monday's Pleasant Hill Earthquake Occurred On Previously Unknown Fault Pretty much none of the quotes from experts or news reports about Monday night's 4.5M earthquake in the East Bay — or the recent swarm of mini-quakes in other parts of the Bay Area — have been comforting or satisfying. Least of all this.
SF News Actress Felicity Huffman Begins Prison Sentence at Notoriously 'Cushy' Bay Area Facility Following her sentencing to 14 days in federal prison for her role in the college admissions fraud scandal, Oscar nominee and onetime 'Desperate Housewives' star Felicity Huffman began her new real-life 'Orange Is the New Black' experience on Tuesday in Dublin, California.
SF News Riding BART to SFO Would Get You In TSA Priority Lane Under New Proposal BART is actively trying to incentivize getting to SFO via train, rather than Uber or Lyft or private vehicle, and they want to give riders access to the TSA Priority lane at security via a scan of their Clipper card.
SF News A Decade On, 'Better Market Street' Plan Gets Final Approval, Vehicle Ban Made Permanent On Tuesday, with broad support from a coalition of advocacy groups, a plan was finally made official and final by the SFMTA to ban private vehicles from the lower half of Market Street and undertake a variety of street improvements over the next six years.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Fire Contained at East Bay Refinery PG&E releases photos of power line damage from last week's winds, yesterday's refinery explosion caused a 15-acre grass fire, and a Facebook engineer says he was fired for speaking out about a colleague's suicide.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Refinery Explosion Might Have Been Earthquake-Related A smaller earthquake rattled the Pleasant Hill area this evening, Twitter won't delete Trump's account, and the man killed on Jones Street on Monday has been identified.
SF News [Updated] Explosion and Fire At Crockett Oil Refinery Shuts Down I-80 A couple of 8,000-gallon tanks holding diesel fuel exploded Tuesday afternoon at the NuStar refinery in Crockett, shaking the areas of Rodeo, Hercules, and Pinole and sending thick, toxic black smoke into the air.
SF News Yet Another Earthquake, This One 4.7M, Strikes Near Hollister The Bay Area earthquake swarm continued Tuesday afternoon with another not-insignificant temblor just south of the Bay Area, centered in a remote area near Hollister.
SF News Daly City Landlords Line Up To Evict Tenants Ahead of New State Law Daly City is facing an apparent eviction crisis as landlords are hurrying to oust tenants ahead of a state law taking effect in January that bars no-fault evictions.
Business & Tech #DeleteFacebook Trending Again After News That Zuckerberg Met With Tucker Carlson, Other Right-Wing Loons Mark Zuckerberg has given the non-conservative half of the country a new reason to hate him this week as it's come out that he secretly met with groups of right-wing pundits, professional firebrands, and journalists in order to appease their cries of liberal bias.
Arts & Entertainment Napa Man Sets CA Record For Largest Pumpkin at Annual Half Moon Bay Contest A Napa pumpkin grower won the day at the annual Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh Off on Monday in Half Moon Bay, with a gourd weighing in at 2,175 pounds — a new California record.
