SF News Vacaville Woman Charged With Setting 10 Los Altos Wildfires In One Day It was a busy Saturday for the Santa Clara County Fire Department, the local Cal Fire Unit, and the Foothill-De Anza Community College Police Department, as they battled 10 fires — all allegedly set by the same person.
SF Politics New DA Jenkins Announces First Actual Policy Changes, Vows Harsher Sentencing for Drug Crimes The first specific policy changes under new District Attorney Brooke Jenkins were announced Wednesday, and she vowed to revoke Boudin’s plea deals, and levy more charges on drug offenders.
SF News Sonoma County Man Frequently Using Backyard as Shooting Range, Neighbors On Nextdoor Up In Arms One man near Sebastopol has installed a private shooting range on his property, and is making extensive and very loud use of it, and furious neighbors have tried enlisting the Sheriff’s Office, county supervisors, and attorneys, all to no avail.
Arts & Entertainment Haight Street Swing Bar Club Deluxe is Apparently Closing, But Supervisor Preston Vows a Fight The 33-year-old jazz and swing venue Club Deluxe is closing, according to a statement circulating on social media attributed to its owner, but its district’s supervisor Dean Preston is exploring paths to keep the venue open at the same location.
SF News [Update] More Bedlam in Berkeley, Protesters Retake People’s Park and Halt Construction After Park Was Fenced Off and Cleared A combination of surreal scenes in Berkeley, as protesters halt construction in People’s Park, after it was gated off and crews lopped down the park’s trees to make way for a 16-story housing project.
SF News Day Around the Bay: State Mulls Shuttering Soledad Prison As Incarcerated Population Declines Your last chance at Burning Man tickets arrives at 12 Noon Wednesday, a judge has blocked a huge expansion at the Palisades Tahoe resort, and Soledad State Prison is one of three on the chopping block as California simply has fewer people locked up.
SF News Family Furious After Dog Walking App Loses Dog On Their Watch, Dog Still At Large A two-year-old Maltipoo named Coco was last seen Friday night near Octavia Street, after a pet sitter from the app Rover lost the dog, and a search is underway in Western Addition and the Tenderloin.
SF Politics Breed Demands Apology From Sup. Walton Over N-Word Use Toward Sheriff's Cadet; Walton Says He Might Sue Instead The war of words over an n-word incident five weeks ago escalated dramatically Monday, with Mayor Breed saying Shamann Walton should apologize to a sheriff’s cadet, and a hardly contrite Walton threatening “he may take legal action.”
SF News Rec and Parks Gets Ripped Off for $4.5 Million In Cost Overruns on Portsmouth Square Parking Garage An alphabet soup of transit authorities and nonprofit organizations was responsible for a Chinatown parking garage renovation that was completed four years late and went $4.5 million over budget, but a city auditor blames lax Rec and Parks Department oversight.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands’ Weed Area Grass Lands Will Be More Lit Than Ever, With Dub Mission’s DJ Sep Spinning They’re finally making the stage at the cannabis area Grass Lands a music destination, with Dub Mission’s DJ Sep on Saturday, and six-piece tiki band Ape on Sunday.
SF News SF Firefighter Allegedly Shot Oakland Man In Puppy-Breeding Dispute A 29-year-old San Francisco Fire Department member appeared in an Alameda County Court Tuesday morning on charges that he not only ripped off an Oakland puppy breeder, but fired several bullets at him too.
SF Politics Is Mayor Breed Trying to Finish Off SF’s Slow Streets? Recent Developments Raise Questions Breed’s out-of-the-blue announcement that the Slow Streets Program “needs to evolve,” combined with some sudden unexpected restrictions on a popular Slow Street, indicate City Hall may be pushing for a U-turn on the Slow Streets Program.
SF News Pandemic and Street Violence Still Taking Brutal Toll on Oakland’s Chinatown A full 10% of small businesses in Oakland’s Chinatown have closed permanently during the pandemic, and the lingering threat of street violence is hampering any sort of comeback.
SF News One Month In, New SoMa ‘Drug Sobering Center’ Gets Mixed Reviews More than 300 visitors have accessed the new SoMa Rise sobering center in its first month open, but it’s still unclear whether it's producing any good outcomes, or justifying its $4.2 million-a-year price tag.
SF News Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputies Shot and Killed Someone in Geyserville Friday Morning Information is scarce, and we don’t even know if the victim was a suspect, but Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputies shot someone fatally in an incident near Franz Creek Ranch Friday morning.
SF News As Shelter-In-Place Hotel Program Winds Down, Residents and Managers Look Back on Whether it Actually Worked San Francisco's Shelter-in-Place Hotel program is roughly 75% finished, with the remaining 25% to expire in the weeks to come. Let’s check in on the statistics — and people — who can say whether it was effective.
SF News BART Reinstates Mask Mandate — Effective Immediately One Bay Area transit agency is acknowledging that COVID-19 is still very much with us, as the BART board voted Thursday night to reinstate the mask mandate until at least October 1.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Hospital, Thankfully, Can Stop Transferring Patients We have yet another Great Highway opening/closure proposal being bandied about, Outside Lands released its schedule and set times, and the tragic Laguna Honda patient relocation plan has finally been brought to a halt.
SF News SF Officially Declares State of Emergency Over Monkeypox Mayor Breed officially issued a state of emergency over the monkeypox outbreak Thursday, as cases exploded over the month of July from barely over a dozen to now nearly 300 and rising.
Sponsored The OG Cannabis Delivery Service Eaze Turns 8, and It's Still Growing Like a Weed The first-ever online cannabis delivery platform Eaze was born right here in San Francisco, so we’re blazing up some candles to look at the first eight years of its high life. Plus, they are offering up some discounts.
SF Politics State AG Refuses DA Jenkins’s Request To Take Breed’s Brother's Case, Plus Case Involving DA's Husband's Family New DA Brooke Jenkins’s request to hand resentencing of London Breed’s brother to the state attorney general has been denied, and same goes for a case involving Jenkins’s husband’s cousin.
SF News PG&E Reports Profits Declined by 10%, Which Likely Means They’ll Just Jack Up Your Bills Again Yes, your PG&E bills are higher. And they’re probably going to go up even more, because PG&E needs to bury power lines and pay off manslaughter victims’ families, and the investors would rather you pay for that instead of them.
SF News BART Taking Heat Over Handling of Heat-Related Train Derailing In June Before a BART train derailed near Concord last month over “track warping” on a surface that reached 140 degrees, the agency apparently did not follow a process that they’d used in years past to prevent such derailings during extreme heat.
Arts & Entertainment Bob Weir To Ring In His 75th Birthday With a Three-Night Set at the Warfield Bobby turns 75 in October, and he’ll treat his hometown to three performances at the Warfield along with his latest band Wolf Bros, with tickets going on sale Friday.
SF News SFPD Mission Station Doubles Down on Seemingly Pointless Barricades, Wants Permanent New Ones Those baffling barricades have been in front of the SFPD Mission Station for more than two years, and now we learn the department wants to erect permanent new barriers in front of the whole station.