SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatal Early Morning Shooting Becomes 129th Homicide in Oakland This Year A fatal shooting Friday around 4 a.m. in downtown Oakland became the city's 129th homicide for 2021, the world's largest toy train returns to the Bay Area this weekend, and ICYMI: Tesla has officially moved its HQ to Austin, Texas.
SF News Eight African Countries Under 'Do Not Travel' Advisories Over Omicron Concerns With the holidays in full swing, which inevitably means a more active SFO, the State Department on Saturday put eight African countries on a "Do Not Travel" list for US citizen as concern grows over the Omicron variant.
SF News Oakland Police Release Picture of Suspect Car in KRON4 Security Guard Killing; Trust Fund Established to Support Victim's Family Oakland police released an image of what's thought to be the vehicle — an early 2000s white Acura TL — carrying the person responsible for killing a KRON4 security guard. The department is asking for anyone with knowledge of the car to come forward.
SF News Sunday Links: Coyote Rescued in SF at Marina Green Released Back Into Wild The SFPD's presence at Union Square has remained steady this weekend, thrift shops are filling up around the Bay, and "Phoenix" — the coyote that found itself in the waters off Marina Green Friday — was successfully treated before being released back into the wild.
SF News Gunshots at San Jose High School Stadium Sends Football Game Into Chaos; Two People Injured During Shooting On Friday inside a parking lot at Westmont High School in Campbell, gunfire erupted that split the division championship football game between St. Francis and Serra high schools into a frenzy — leaving two people injured, as well.
SF News SF Firefighters Use Jet Ski to Rescue Drowning Coyote Off Marina Green Coyotes have grown even more comfortable around San Francisco since the pandemic began, taking to desolate streets and open parks — in broad daylight — with little hesitation. But one wayward canine recently found itself in serious trouble after falling into the ocean off a dock at Marina Green.
SF News Saturday Links: Oakland Security Guard at KRON4 Dies From Gunshot Injuries KRON4 security guard Kevin Nishita passed away Friday after sustaining gunshot wounds during an attempted robbery, Bay Area scientists continue to sound the alarm regarding the Omicron variant, and over 30 peacocks are causing chaos in a Tracy neighborhood.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Black Friday at Union Square Sees Substantial SFPD Presence San Francisco police were out in droves today at Union Square, food trucks are coming to the Great Highway this weekend, and one of the theater’s most influential composer-lyricists, Stephen Sondheim, died Friday at 91 years old.
SF News Record-Breaking Wolf That Went on 1,000 Mile Journey Struck and Killed by Vehicle OR-93, the male gray wolf that garnered worldwide attention after his record-breaking trek from Oregon into Northern California this year, was found dead near I-5 on November 10.
SF News Turkey Day Topline: Glide Is Serving Thanksgiving Meals and COVID-19 Vaccines for 2021 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade returned in full (with a Baby Yoda float in tow), a growing number of wild turkeys are making themselves at home at California college campuses, and Glide is giving away thousands of meals today — as well as offering COVID-19 vaccines.
SF News Up to 5% of World's Giant Sequoia Trees Killed This Year In KNP Complex and Windy Fires Collectively, the KNP Complex and Windy fires burned over 185,000 acres in California — damaging at least 28 giant sequoia groves. And it's now believed that around 5% of the world's giant sequoias died as a result.
SF News San Francisco Opens Winter Shelter Program Through March of 2022 Now in its 33rd year, the Interfaith Winter Shelter Program opened Sunday — and is expected to conclude on March 26, 2022 — increasing SF's temporary housing capacity for people experiencing homelessness.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested In Walnut Creek Nordstrom Looting That Involved 80 Burglars Just a day after San Francisco's spree of rampant looting, the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza saw over six dozen people plunder the luxury goods store last night.
SF News Sunday Links: SF to Limit Car Access to Union Square Following Night of Citywide Looting San Francisco will crackdown on car traffic through Union Square after Friday’s widespread looting, a Saturday police killing in Oakland left one alleged carjacker dead, and FYI: many more booster shot appointments came online today in SF.
SF News New Analysis Shows Almost 900 Bay Area Neighborhoods Are Inside 'Food Deserts' The pandemic pushed local food banks to the brim as they dealt with record numbers of requests. COVID-19 has also stretched the Bay Area's growing food access crisis, leaving a large amount of the region's population more than a half-mile away from the nearest grocery store.
SF News [Update] Multiple Union Square Stores Hit By Smash-and-Grab Burglars Friday More than a dozen individuals partook in a brazen burglary of the Louis Vuitton location at 233 Geary Street Friday night — taking most of the store's on-display inventory before police arrived. And that wasn't the only store robbed.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Shot and Killed by SF Police Friday at Residential Hotel Identified The Rittenhouse verdict drew large protests in Oakland Friday night, CHP is reporting that a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Oakland on I-880, and 41-year-old Ajmal Amani was the victim of the police killing at the CW Hotel near 5th and Folsom streets yesterday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bay Area Professor Charged With Wildlands Arson Former Santa Clara University professor Stephen Maynard was indicted on charges that he set four wildfires inside national forests in California, the FDA has expanded COVID-19 booster eligibility to all adults in the US, and it’s not just you: SF's Victorians are "graying."
SF News Two SF Walgreens Locations Will Permanently Close Tomorrow; Another to Cease Operating Wednesday And these three closures will come after the Walgreens stores on Ocean Avenue and Mission Street in San Francisco were shuttered for good earlier this month.
SF News Another Black Bear Finds Itself Lost and Confused in Bay Area Neighborhood A (presumably off-course) black bear was spotted early Sunday strolling around Petaluma. The sighting triggered a shelter-in-place advisory for the Raymond Heights neighborhood — leaving residents concerned, perplexed, and curious about the bear's whereabouts.
SF News Sunday Links: Islamic Center of San Francisco Mosque Vandalized in Apparent Hate Crime A beer bottle was chucked through a window at a San Francisco Mosque sometime Friday, Hilda & Jesse is open in North Beach for brunch and Monday night breakfast, and SF rents are still down 20% from March of 2020.
SF News Kaiser Reaches Tentative Agreement With Unions; NorCal Outpatient Pharmacies Could Still Be Affected Just two days before at least 24,000 Kaiser Permanente employees were set to go on strike to advocate for better wages and working conditions, a tentative agreement for a four-year contract with labor unions was made — staving off the majority of the planned walkouts.
SF News $10K Reward Offered to Anyone With Information in Highway Shooting That Killed Fremont Toddler Oakland's Chinatown Chamber of Commerce, along with help from SF Police Officers Association and Burma Superstar restaurant, is offering a $10K reward for anyone with information that could lead to the arrest (or arrests) in the fatal shooting of 23-month-old Jasper Wu on I-880 last weekend.
SF News Saturday Links: East Bay Amber Alert Lifted After Sacramento Boy Found Three-year-old Leo Norvell has been found by Hayward police, the National Weather Service issued a Dense Fog Advisory for parts of the Bay Area until 11 a.m., and it’s El Rio’s 43rd birthday today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Is Opening Up Booster Shots for All Adults California will now allow anyone 18 years or older to get their COVID-19 booster shots, the 17th Assembly District of CA special election will take place in SF on April 19, and — at long lost — Britney Spears is free from her conservatorship.
