SF News Sunday Links: Pleasanton Police Say They Have Searched All Areas Where Missing Runner Might Be The Dixie Fire is almost a quarter-million acres in size, a 3.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded this morning at 7:30 a.m. near Hollister, and Pleasanton police say they have now “pretty much 100% covered” areas where missing runner Philip Kreycik could’ve been.
SF News Here's Your Hyperlocal Reminder That Snakes Are Most Active During the Spring and Summer Months The Bay Area is home to the most beautiful reptile in North America: the San Francisco garter snake. But the region's also populated by rattlesnakes that demand people look where they’re walking, as one couple recently learned while out at Paso Nogal Park.
SF News San Francisco Could Introduce Indoor Mask Mandate Next Week Amid Rising COVID-19 Cases With the Delta variant infecting the city’s vaccinated and unvaccinated residents, Mayor Breed and Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax announced Friday that actions will be taken sometime next week to combat its spread — which could include an indoor mask mandate.
SF News Saturday Links: Two Women Left With Life-Threatening Injuries After Friday Night Shooting A Bayview shooting Friday night involving two women left both of them with severe wounds, the San Jose public school district is set to become the first Bay Area school district to require all staff to be vaccinated, and the national eviction moratorium will expire today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Police Looking for Truck in Western Addition Hit-and-Run San Francisco police are looking for a box truck that struck a man in the Western Addition late Thursday night, Disney is requiring nonunion employees in the United States to be fully vaccinated, and at least 43 trees could be cut down in San Jose — just to make way for two digital billboards.
SF News [Update] SF Bar Coalition Announces Proof of Vaccination Will Be Required to Come Indoors Starting Thursday As COVID-19 cases trend upward — with SF recently recording its highest number of new infections in one day since mid-January — the San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance's president announced at least 85% of local bar owners support requiring proof of vaccination for people drinking indoors.
SF News Five-Hour Foot Chase in San Francisco Leads to Successful Dog Rescue (and Later Reunion) On July 7, San Francisco animal control officers found themselves in an hours-long pursuit near Oracle Park that had them maneuvering through parked cars and across railroad tracks to retrieve Nieve, a white terrier mix. This past Friday, the very good doggo was reunited with her doting family.
SF News Sunday Links: Dixie Fire Merges With Fly Fire as It Approaches 200,000 Acres in Size Two young white men were arrested after vandalizing a BLM mural in Santa Cruz, the Walgreens at 81st Avenue in Oakland is set to close (which could create a local “pharmacy desert”), and the Dixie Fire grew nearly 10,000 acres overnight — with its northeastern perimeter joining the Fly Fire.
SF News Dixie Fire Explodes to 181,289 Acres; Increased Smoke Causes Problems for Air Tankers Since starting July 14, the Dixie Fire has grown to over 181,289 acres in size — or roughly an area six times the acreage of San Francisco. And it's still only 19% contained.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco-Marin Food Bank Gave Out Twice as Much Food in 2020 as Prior Year An East Bay warehouse fire caused temporary outages Saturday morning, a body recovered in the San Pablo Bay is believed to belong to a local missing teen, and the pandemic absolutely worsened hunger in the Bay Area — with the SF-Marin food bank dealing out 80 million pounds of food in 2020, alone.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Stanford to Require All Students Be Vaccinated for Fall Semester There's a small chance of dry lightning early next week, Monterey's beloved (and pun-filled) Artichoke Festival is slated to return this weekend, and all Stanford students enrolled in the fall semester must now show proof of vaccination before returning to class.
SF News Dixie Fire Approaches Camp Fire Burn Scar With Over 18,000 Acres Burned; Smoke Clouds Blanketing Nearby Skies The Dixie Fire has exploded over the weekend with only 15% of the fire contained as it nears the Camp Fire burn scar in Butte County; there’s also now a huge amount of smoke in the air.
SF News Sunday Links: 5.1M Earthquake Rattles Off Northern California Coast A large earthquake happened 7.5 miles west of Petrolia in Humboldt County Saturday, emergency crews were called to help an injured hiker at Alum Rock Park earlier this week, and two athletes tested positive for COVID-19 in the Olympic Village.
SF News Now There's a Red Flag Warning for Parts of the Bay Area The potential for dry thunderstorms striking parts of the Bay Area has now led the National Weather Service to elevate areas that were previously under a Fire Weather Watch now to a Red Flag Warning.
SF News Police: Fremont Teenager Stabs Parents, Killing Mother and Wounding Father On Friday around 12:30 a.m., a 14-year-old boy was found covered in blood after allegedly stabbing both his parents — killing his mom and leaving the dad with severe injuries — according to Fremont police.
SF News Saturday Links: Chinatown to Receive $26.5M Arts and Media Center One large storefront at Grant Avenue and Clay Street is set to become a Chinese arts and media center, a Saturday morning hit-and-run crash at a San Jose intersection left one driver dead, and yes: Monkeypox is a thing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parts of Bay Area Put Under Fire Weather Watch Amid Potential Thunderstorms The National Weather Service put parts of the Bay Area under a Fire Weather Watch for this weekend, a small plane crash in Napa killed three people, and Uber was fined $59M last year — but could now get away virtually scot-free.
SF News 66-Year-Old San Francisco Resident Shoots at Home Intruder Trying to Break Into His Apartment San Francisco police released a statement Friday about a recent incident explaining that a burglar got more than what he had bargained for when he was met with gunfire breaking into the home of a local elder.
SF News Sunday Links: It's Going to Be Another Hot One Today There was a small earthquake near Hollister this morning, a Bay Area doctor saved a choking fan at last night's Giants game, and though coastal cities and towns in higher elevations will be spared from triple-digit temperatures Sunday, inland areas will continue to scorch.
SF News Dog Stolen at Ferry Building Saturday Found and Reunited With Owners; Suspect Has Been Detained Maya — who looks to be either a purebred or mixed bluetick coonhound — was taken from her owners outside the Ferry Building Saturday. SFPD has since discovered the dog's whereabouts, gave Maya back to her owners, and arrested a suspect.
SF News Saturday Links: SFPD Arrest Suspect in Chinatown Stabbing San Francisco is losing its only Top Round Roast Beef outpost soon, Valencia Street will again close to cars later tonight, and San Francisco police detained a suspect thought to be in connection with Friday's stabbing near Broadway and Powell Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID Outbreak at Sonoma Homeless Shelter Infects 47 Sonoma County officials said 47 residents at the Sam Jones Hall shelter tested positive for COVID-19, there was a small brush fire by Lake Merritt Friday, and California will still require face masks inside schools — despite the CDC recommending otherwise.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bao House Opens in Berkeley — and Becomes Alameda County's First Legal Home Restaurant Debuting with an assortment of homemade steam bun entrees and a (very delicious looking) fennel-cucumber-apple salad, Akshay Prabhu’s Bao House became the first legal home restaurant to operate in Alameda County this past Thursday.
SF News More Animals at Oakland Zoo Have Started Receiving Modified COVID-19 Vaccines There's strong evidence to support that SARS-CoV-2 — the pathogen which causes COVID-19 — has a zoonotic source, meaning it's naturally transmissible from vertebrate animals to humans. And this is exactly why animals at the Oakland Zoo have begun getting inoculated against the disease it causes.
SF News Sunday Links: UCSF Doctor Recommends We Mask Up for Crowded July 4th Events A UCSF professor of epidemiology urges people to wear masks during today's larger Independence Day events, five people were stabbed in downtown Napa Saturday night, and new cherry blossom trees were planted in Japantown.
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