SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo Getting a New Male Gorilla From the Louisville Zoo There will of course be SFPD DUI checkpoints this holiday weekend; yet another new SF block party debuts on July 4; and the SF Zoo is getting a new male gorilla to replace Oscar Jonesy who died in February.
SF News Body Found in Morgan Hill Park Identified as Woman Who’s Been Missing for Five Days There's a very unsettling correlation between the case of a Morgan Hill 18-year-old girl who’s been missing since Sunday and the discovery of a human body found Wednesday in that area, and police just confirmed that the body is hers.
SF News How a Dozen Legal Fireworks Stores In Nevada Power California’s Illegal Fireworks Craze If you see illegal fireworks this weekend, they are almost certainly from one of about 13 perfectly legal fireworks stores in Nevada. And a look at these stores’ Yelp pages shows that almost all of their reviews are from California residents.
Business & Tech Walnut Creek-Based Canned Foods Giant Del Monte Files for Bankruptcy, Hopes for New Owner Yes, Del Monte Foods is based in Walnut Creek, but it may not be for much longer, as the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and it seems like Trump’s steel tariffs had a lot to do with this.
SF News One Confirmed Dead, Three of Seven Missing People Identified in Yolo County Fireworks Warehouse Explosion One person has been confirmed dead after Tuesday’s NorCal fireworks warehouse disaster, and now we have the identities of a few of those still missing, and it turns out the name of the fireworks company was Devastating Pyrotechnics.
Bay Area Sports Giants Play the A’s in Their Rinky-Dink Sacramento Stadium for the First Time This Weekend The magic is definitely gone from the old Bay Bridge Series now that the A’s are no longer on the other side of the Bay Bridge, but your San Francisco Giants play their first-ever series at Sacramento’s Sutter Health Park this weekend.
Arts & Entertainment Notoriously Stinky ‘Corpse Flower’ Set to Bloom Again at Conservatory of Flowers, and Now There’s a Livestream We are within days of yet another famed and rare bloom of one of the SF Conservatory of Flowers’ famed "Corpse Flowers,” plus the terrible smell that comes with it, and this year's gigantic flower has its own livestream.
SF News Castro Coffeeshop and Nail Salon Defiantly Remain Open, Despite Looming Castro Theatre-Related Eviction The Castro Coffee Company and Castro Nail Salon on both sides of the Castro Theatre are still open, despite eviction orders that they be out by July 1, and both small businesses seem determined to dig in their heels and stick around.
Arts & Entertainment San Quentin Prison Hosts First-Ever Father-Daughter ‘Parent Prom,’ With Everyone Dressed to the Nines Check out those San Quentin prisoners styled out in tuxedos for the prison’s first father-daughter prom, where daughters in ballgowns visited their fathers for a red-carpet affair that in many cases was their first contact in years.
SF News DUI Charges Filed In Last Week’s Albany Crash That Killed 40-Year-Old Delivery Driver Friday’s three-vehicle crash in Albany that killed delivery driver Daniel Alejandro Oliva Morales has been deemed a DUI, and a 34-year-old El Cerrito man is being charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lafayette’s Long-Shuttered Park Theater to Reopen With a $12 Million Renovation The lottery is open for the Pointer Sisters-Lyrics Born show at Stern Grove; a Cotati DUI suspect was pulled over with 70 empty beer cans in his vehicle; and Lafayette’s Park Theater that closed 20 years ago is set to reopen with a big renovation.
SF News Walnut Creek Teacher Facing Rape Charges for Alleged Sex With Teen Student A 43-year-old Walnut Creek teacher has been charged with the rape, unlawful sexual intercourse, and assault of a student, and it does not help his case that he admitted to these things on a phone call that police had secretly wiretapped.
SF News Oakland Attorney Arrested for Allegedly Smuggling Contraband Porn Into Solano County Jail A well-known Oakland attorney has been arrested on charges that he tried to sneak contraband to a prisoner in Solano County Jail, and further reporting on the matter says that the contraband he tried to sneak was a stack of pornographic magazines.
SF News New App Lets Users Crowdsource ICE Agent Sightings, Trump Administration Goes Apoplectic A new iPhone app purports to be “Waze but for ICE sightings” and lets users share the location of ICE operations they see, but now the Trump administration is throwing massive tantrums and claiming they’ll sue CNN for reporting that the app exists.
SF News Newsom Signs Major Rollback of CEQA Reviews, With a Big Carve-Out for Big Tech Gavin Newsom claims it’s the “most consequential housing reform in modern history” that he just exempted most urban housing projects from environmental review, as the new state budget has some additions that hope to weaken the notorious CEQA.
SF News Stinson Beach Releases $1.2 Billion Sea-Level Rise Plan, Which Comes Out to About $2 Million Per Resident The Marin County community of Stinson Beach is pretty much surrounded by water, which makes its flood risks off the charts in the climate change era, but the community is contemplating a billion-dollar plan to adapt to rising sea levels.
SF News SF Drag Performer Was Detained By ICE Heading Into Pride Weekend On Thursday of last week as we were leading up to Pride Weekend, a Guatemalan drag performer living in SF and performing under the stage name Hilary Rivers was detained after showing up for an immigration court hearing.
SF News Slew of New California Laws Set to Take Effect July 1, With Bars Required to Provide Anti-Roofie ‘Drink Lids’ At least four Bay Area municipalities will see minimum wage increases go into effect on July 1, plus there are other new laws targeting hidden Airbnb fees, and bars will have to provide drink lids on request to prevent people from getting roofied.
SF News There’s Actually Some Thunderstorm Risk (and Wildfire Risk) In NorCal as We Head Toward 4th of July The possibility of lightning has led to Red Flag Warnings Monday and Tuesday in some of California’s northernmost counties, but the low-pressure system that’s bringing them will mostly just bring more fog to San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Cornerback Deommodore Lenoir Arrested in LA on Charges of Obstructing Justice Fresh off signing a $92 million contract, up-and-coming 49ers cornerback Deommodore Lenoir spent a few hours in a Los Angeles County jail Thursday night, and is being charged with obstructing justice in an incident that police say involved a gun.
SF News Oakland Airport Tries To Change Its Name Again, This Time to ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport’ Having hit a legal roadblock after trying to change its name to ‘San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport,’ Oakland officials are now taking another stab at it with the new proposed new name ‘Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport.’
SF News Two Arrested After Discovery Bay Boat Rage Incident, Accused of Ramming Jet-Ski and Other Boats After some social media video showed a boat in Discovery Bay seeming to intentionally plow into a Jet-Ski and other boats Sunday, two suspects have been arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
SF News SFPD Touts 97 Arrests In One Day, In What They Call a ‘Fugitive Enforcement Operation’ The SF Police Department is claiming a major victory against the street drug trade, saying they made 97 arrests Wednesday and insisting they caught a large number of “fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Recology Rates Going Up By Nearly 25%, Starting in October Barry Bonds is getting a statue at Oracle Park; there’s an IMAX screening of the Grateful Dead concert movie coming to SF; and Recology will be jacking up your rates by almost 25% in a phased approach beginning October 1.
Arts & Entertainment Ghirardelli Square Clock Tower Restored, After a Year Behind Covers and Scaffolding The 107-year-old clock tower at Ghirardelli Square has been concealed behind white wrapping for nearly a year, but just had its triumphant unveiling now that some water damage problems have been repaired.
