SF News Day Around the Bay: There Was a Massive Elephant Seal Pulled From a Parking Lot at Drakes Beach A large elephant seal was wrangled from a parking lot near Point Reyes, San Francisco has adopted the CDC's shorter quarantine protocols, and Betty White has died at 99 years old.
SF News Map From National Weather Service Shows Where We Might Get Snow in Bay Area Next Week Late Saturday night and early Sunday morning saw snowflakes fall on some of the Bay Area's highest peaks. But even frozen precipitation is expected as soon as Tuesday, a good amount of that snow piling up in lower elevations, as well.
SF News Glide Sees Hundreds Enjoy Free Christmas Day Meals Amid Another Pandemic-Defined Year Continuing its decades-long tradition of serving free holiday feasts, volunteers dished out over 600 free Christmas morning meals at Glide Memorial Church yesterday — many of those meals enjoyed underneath tents set up along Ellis Street.
SF News Sunday Links: Santa Cruz Had White Christmas As Temperatures Plunged Hundreds of flights either leaving from or coming into the United States have already been canceled Sunday, the China Beach bathhouse is getting a $20M renovation, and a mixture of freezing temperatures and steady precipitation made for a snowy Christmas night in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
SF News Christmas Day Stocking Stuffer: More Rain Expected Throughout Holiday Weekend Rain is forecasted to keep pouring down today and into early next week, a few Bay Area holiday pop-up bars will open later today, and… merry Christmas!
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gasoline Spill in Fremont Causes 100 Homes to Evacuate An overturned trailer spilled gasoline on I-680 in Fremont this morning, it's going to be a wet Christmas across the Bay Area tomorrow, and over 3,800 flights were canceled globally today as Omicron continues surging across the world.
SF News Suspect Arrested in Murder of Sacramento Afghan Refugee Who Was Working for Uber When Fatally Shot 31-year-old Ahmad Fawad Yusufi was resting in his car while on a break driving for Uber when he was bothered by a man demanding his wallet and phone. Police later responded to a call of a gunshot victim — who was identified as Yusufi — on Potrero Avenue near Cesar Chavez Street.
SF News Photos: 'The Matrix Resurrections' Premiere Paints San Francisco Green — and Draws Massive Crowds to the Castro Saturday saw a star-studded crowd (and sea of curious onlookers) descend on the Castro Theater for the highly anticipated premiere of "The Matrix Resurrections," the film's debut inspiring many parts of San Francisco to glow green last night.
SF News Sunday Links: CHP Records Three Deadly Accidents on Bay Area Freeways San Jose launched two "warming centers" for people experiencing homelessness, one of San Mateo's busiest vaccination sites will close until January, and CHP is investigating three fatal car crashes that happened on various Bay Area freeways early Sunday.
SF News Veritas Investments Announces New Program to Forgive Uncovered Portions of Back-Rent Owed by Residential Tenants Veritas Investments — SF's largest landlord, which owns and manages some 250 residential properties in the city — announced this week it will not require tenants to pay their overdue rent caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
SF News San Francisco Might Have at Least 30 Unconfirmed Omicron Cases The Omicron variant now makes up at least 3% of all new documented COVID-19 cases in the United States. Since the city reported its first case of the variant on December 1, another 30 unconfirmed Omicron infections might have already been recorded in San Francisco.
SF News Saturday Links: Dottie’s True Blue Café Permanently Closes After 30 Years in San Francisco A roller skating-themed mural debuted at Golden Gate Park, Union Square endures as the holiday season continues, and Dottie’s True Blue Café has closed for good after more than 30 years in business.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Family of Mario Gonzalez Files Lawsuit Against Alameda Police The NFL postponed three games due to COVID-19 outbreaks, the Oakland Police Commission hired its first general inspector, and a new lawsuit claims Mario Gonzalez — who was killed when Alameda police attempted to restrain him earlier this year — had his constitutional rights violated.
SF News Annual Gun Buyback Event in San Francisco Receives at Least 265 Firearms Organized by United Playaz — a violence prevention and youth development nonprofit — SF’s annual gun buyback event was held Saturday at 1038 Howard Street where more than two hundred firearms were surrendered.
SF News Sunday Links: Atmospheric River Arrives in Bay Area A large storm system entered the North Bay Saturday night, beloved novelist Anne Rice has died due to complications following a sudden stroke, and SantaCon descended on SF Saturday — which seemed quieter than prior years.
SF News Man Pulled From Waters Off Eagle's Point in SF Dies After Rescue Thursday afternoon, San Francisco firefighters pulled a man from the surf at Eagle's Point, the victim described as being in "critical condition." Fire officials later announced that the man had died from his sustained injuries.
SF News San Francisco Students Walk Out of School to Demand Action Against Sexual Harassment on Campuses Almost 500 SF students convened at City Hall Friday to advocate for more actions from the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) on sexual assault and harassment cases — noting that the school district's response to sexual misconduct is lacking.
SF News Saturday Links: Three-Alarm Fire at Bayview Warehouse Is Now Contained There was yet another smash-and-grab car robbery recorded in SF, the Oakland Ballet Company will bring ‘The Nutcracker’ back to the stage next weekend, and a large fire broke out at 335 Barneveld at Newcomb avenues Saturday morning — but it's now contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Smash-and-Grab Car Robbery on Lombard Street Took Place With Family Inside Steph Curry urged lawmakers to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, longtime Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen has passed away at 59 years old, and a car robbery played out Monday afternoon on Lombard Street — with four family members inside.
SF News Photos: King Tides Offer Window Into a Bay Area Marked by the Climate Crisis King tides — which average two feet higher than normal tides — flooded parts of San Francisco this weekend. And by doing so, they gave us a glimpse into how the city might look in the future with rising sea levels.
SF News SF Restaurant Refuses Service to Police Officers, Weapons Made Staff 'Uncomfortable' On Friday, the new brunch spot Hilda and Jesse in North Beach asked three uniformed, armed SF police officers to leave the establishment shortly after they were seated; employees were cited as being "uncomfortable with the presence of their multiple weapons."
SF News Sunday Links: Holiday Shopping Slowly Returns to Union Square Holiday shopping busied at Union Square over the weekend, many NorCal Planned Parenthood locations are preparing for an influx of out-of-state abortions, and new research shows that the Omicron variant was likely in the U.S. before it was first recorded.
SF News Charlotte Mailliard Shultz Has Died at 88 Years Old The long-reigning Chief of San Francisco Protocol and unofficial aide to ten City mayors, Charlotte Mailliard Shultz passed away Friday at 88 years old due to complications from cancer.
SF News 90-Year-Old Greek Statue at Legion of Honor Vandalized, Pieces Missing One of San Francisco's oldest statues — a marbled Greek sculpture at Legion of Honor — was found without several parts this week, sparking calls for the return of the missing pieces by curators.
SF News Saturday Links: 5 Cases of Omicron Variant Recorded in Alameda County Nearly a foot of snow is expected in parts of Hawaii over the weekend, “pudgy” cookies are now a thing in Cupertino, and five cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Alameda County — each case described as "mildly symptomatic."
