SF News San Francisco Crisis Intervention Officers De-Escalate Suicide Attempt in Lower Nob Hill Friday afternoon, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran found himself on the roof of The Granada — a nine-story residential building in Lower Nob Hill — plotting to take his own life. But a team of trained crisis intervention officers managed to persuade him from following through.
SF News Minimum Wage Just Went Up in San Francisco. But Is it Enough? San Francisco's minimum wage increased to $16.32 on Thursday — $0.25 more than it previously was at $16.07. However, given the city's high cost of living, which remains disproportionately more than what's seen elsewhere in the country, it's by no means on par with a "living wage."
SF News San Francisco Police Seek Help in Identifying Suspect Behind Muni Bus Stabbing On Friday, San Francisco police released surveillance footage of a man suspected to have stabbed a 31-year-old aboard a Muni bus earlier last month; the victim has since recovered from their non-life-threatening injuries.
SF News Saturday Links: Rowing Team Sets New World Record for Traveling Between San Francisco and Hawaii A four-man crew of rowers has set a new world speed record for crossing the Pacific Ocean between SF and Hawaii, there’s a gas station charging nearly $6 for regular gas in SoMa, and a dead body washed up at the San Gregorio State Beach in San Mateo County on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: One Person Injured From Fire at Residential Hotel Near Mid-Market There’s a shortage of Bay Area therapists conducting in-person sessions, a fire on the seventh floor of the Boyd Hotel around 10:49 a.m. Friday left one person hospitalized, and California's $600 pandemic stimulus checks are finally coming to low-income families and individuals.
SF News 39-Year-Old Swimmer Bitten by Great White Shark Off San Mateo County Coast Saturday morning, the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office tweeted that a beachgoer was bitten by a great white shark, which was estimated to be between six and eight feet long, prompting the Grey Whale Cove State Beach to close; first responders described the bite as severe.
SF News Sunday Links: Dolores Park, Oasis Come Alive With Thousands Celebrating Pride Dolores Park and Oasis saw massive crowds Saturday to celebrate Pride, police arrested a suspect in connection with two San Francisco murders, and the death toll of the Surfside condominium building collapse has now risen to 9 people — with 156 individuals still unaccounted for.
SF News BART Expected to Have Free WiFi at All Stations by 2024 Earlier this year, SFMTA installed wireless routers and cellular antennas inside the Muni Metro tunnels. Now, we can also expect all 50 BART stations to have free (and readily accessible) WiFi hotspots in as little as three years.
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Rents Inch Closer to Pre-Pandemic Prices The renter's market in SF is quickly evaporating as rents begin skyrocketing, a car fire caused traffic to back up on eastbound I-80 in San Francisco Friday, and nature is, in fact, healing — as evident by the wildlife returning to Bernal Heights Park.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco to Close All Mass Vaccination Sites by Mid-July SF is set to close all its remaining mass vaccination sites by July 14, UC Berkeley intends to hold an in-person graduation ceremony for the class of 2020 at the Greek Theatre, and former police officer Derek Chauvin was sentenced Friday to 22.5 years in prison for the murder of George Floyd.
SF News Nearly All of California's Giant Sequoias Are In 'Exceptional Drought' Areas As California’s drought worsens, over 93% of all known giant sequoia trees currently exist in areas experiencing "exceptional drought" conditions — the most severe drought classification established by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
SF News Thief In Viral Video at SF Walgreens Arrested After Attempting to Steal Again The bike-pedaling shoplifter filmed in a viral video that showed him clearing shelves at a San Francisco Walgreens was detained by police Saturday, when the suspect allegedly tried to steal from yet another store just a few blocks away.
SF News Lake Merritt Shooting Leaves 6 Injured, 1 Dead; Oakland Police Investigating Potential Motives Just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, gunfire was reported about a mile north of the Lake Merritt Amphitheater — the location where thousands of people had gathered to commemorate Juneteenth. Oakland police later confirmed one person died and another six were injured during the shooting.
SF News Father's Day Links: Power Restored to 50,000 East Bay Residents After Saturday Outage Around 50,000 residents in Fremont and Union City saw their lights go out Saturday, SF art galleries are experiencing a boom in popularity, and yesterday’s one-alarm apartment building fire has now displaced at least 60 people.
SF News Over 1,000 Endangered (and Gorgeous) Snakes Were Recently Discovered Near SFO San Francisco garter snakes — one of the rarest, arguably most breathtaking reptiles in the United States — were once thought to number as little as a thousand examples in the wild; some 1,300 more are now believed to exist on a 180-acre parcel of wetlands near SFO.
Arts & Entertainment This Uncovered Footage Shows SF Drag Queens Living Their Best Lives at a 1968 Costume Ball 60 years ago, it wasn't uncommon for men wearing women's clothing in public to be arrested. Nevertheless: A group of drag queens prancing along Columbus Avenue in San Francisco — circa 1968 — carried on living their most authentic (and fabulously camp) lives.
SF News Saturday Links: 20 People Rescued From One-Alarm Tenderloin Fire Twenty people were rescued (fifteen of them injured) in an early Saturday morning apartment fire at 421 Leavenworth Street, CA's Flex Alert has been lifted, and Biden's 13-year-old German Shepherd, Champ, has passed away.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents Are Now Up a Solid 4% Over Last Month The average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has risen an even 4% since May, an early Friday morning car crash demolished the parklets at Aquitaine and The Boombox, and as it turns out: Baltimore was the only U.S. city to see a larger exodus than SF last year.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photos: With Capacity Limits Lifted, the Castro Comes Alive Again With fifteen months of COVID-19 restrictions behind us, the Castro’s bars and restaurants were bumping Tuesday night with San Franciscans celebrating the end of social-distancing rules.
SF News Most of Santa Clara's Mass Vaccination Sites Are Closing Soon (But That's a Good Thing) With 80% of eligible county residents vaccinated against COVID-19, four of the five mass vaccination sites in Santa Clara County will shutter in the coming weeks. Remaining vaccine appointments in the county will be handled through mobile efforts, pop-up locations, retail pharmacies, and clinics.
SF News Workforce Nonprofit and UCSF Canvas Tenderloin Offering J&J Vaccines to Residents Saturday afternoon, Code Tenderloin — a local non-profit organization dedicated to helping employ disadvantaged San Franciscans in long-term positions — and UCSF staffers went around the Tenderloin, inoculating those wanting a single-dose shot against COVID-19.
SF News Sunday Links: Triple-Digit Temperatures to Hit Parts of Bay Area by Wednesday A three-alarm fire engulfed a West Oakland recycling plant Saturday, temperatures are expected to climb as high as 104 degrees in some inland parts of the Bay Area by mid-week, and a 12-year-old girl was arrested in relation to four separate fires in Berkeley Hills Friday.
SF News Healdsburg Declares 'Severe Drought,' Bans Use of Sprinklers and Drip Irrigation Systems Officials of the Wine Country city declared Friday that because of "severe drought" conditions, all of its over 12,000 residents must reduce their water usage immediately — specifically announcing a ban on using automatic sprinklers and irrigation systems.
SF News Drunk Driver Injures Two, Kills One After Crashing Into San Jose Outdoor Dining Area A now-identified drunk driver careened into the outdoor seating area of San Jose's Agave Sports Bar Friday night around 9 p.m.; San Jose police confirmed two men and one woman were injured during the crash — though the woman, however, eventually died from her injuries at a nearby hospital.
SF News Saturday Links: 3 Fires Broke Out in Berkeley Hills; SF BART Reopens All Entrances Closed During Pandemic Three separate fires erupted in Berkeley Hills, thirteen people were injured during a mass shooting in Austin, Texas — mind you: the state just passed its permitless gun-carrying bill — and all SF BART entrances closed during the pandemic have reopened.
