SF News Day Around the Bay: 80% of San Francisco Residents Now Vaccinated Against COVID-19 SF police are seeking help in finding a stolen Yorkshire terrier, Caitlyn Jenner is proposing taking funds away from CA's bullet train project (to put toward continuing Trump's border wall), and now 80% of San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
SF News Oldest Chimpanzee in North America Dies at San Francisco Zoo "Cobby," the 63-year-old chimpanzee at the SF Zoo — who was adored by generations of visitors — passed away on June 5, likely due to a combination of his old age and having suffered from an illness earlier in the year.
SF News Man's Body Found at SFO Near BART Station Saturday afternoon, SFO officials announced a body was found near the airport's parking garage, close to the SFO BART Station; the unidentified body is reported to be male, but no age range has been given.
SF News 84-Year-Old San Francisco Grandmother Went Missing Over a Week Ago; SF Police Still Need Help Finding Her Jean Chang Kan Fung went for a walk from her Richmond District home on May 28 — and the 84-year-old has yet to return to her domicile.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco's City Hall Will Reopen to the Public Tomorrow City Hall will open up to the public Monday, SF police are looking for a female FedEx employee caught on camera stealing packages, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcome into the world their new baby girl, Lilibet Diana.
SF News The Original Pride Flag Has Returned to San Francisco Thought to be destroyed after sustaining water damage while in storage, a piece of the OG Rainbow Flag — undeniably the most defining symbol of the LGBTQ civil rights movement — was rediscovered in 2019; a portion of that same flag now sits inside a glass display box in the Castro.
SF News Saturday Links: Today Marks the 40th Anniversary of the First AIDS Cases Reported in the US A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the state’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, new ADUs in Oakland might be banned, and the CDC reported the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome — known more commonly as "AIDS" — 40 years ago to the day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pro-Palestinian Demonstration Tries to Block Israeli Cargo Ship at Port of Oakland Pro-Palestinian protesters attempted to block an Israeli cargo ship from unloading at the Port of Oakland, SF police arrested a suspect linked to a Polk Gulch homicide last month, and one large black bear was low-key filmed strolling in an East Bay neighborhood Friday.
SF News Ferry Plaza Farmers Market Will Offer Home Delivery Across Bay Area If in-person shopping for produce at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market sounds too exhausting, there’s a good chance you can now order those same groceries online — and have them delivered straight to your door (for a nominal fee).
SF News This Infographic From the National Weather Service Shows Just How Bad the Bay Area Drought Is A picture is worth a thousand words. And pictures that include statistics could fill an entire novel.
SF News Photos: Scenes From San Francisco's Carnaval 2021 Celebration This weekend, the Mission District was alive with Latin rock music, the sounds of bongo drums being beat, and a palpable appreciation for the first kind of normal in-person Carnaval festival hosted in San Francisco since the pandemic began.
SF News Sunday Links: Mendocino Cafe Asks Any Customer Wearing Face Mask to Pay $5 Fee Almost the entire Bay Area is now under the "exceptional" drought category, Lake Tahoe is seeing a massive influx of tourists this weekend, and Fiddleheads Café in Mendocino — which has been a noted critic of pandemic face mask mandates — is now charging patrons wearing a face covering an extra $5.
SF News A Cabaret Group of San Francisco Grandmothers Is Denouncing Asian Hate — One Rap Lyric at a Time Absolutely dripping in swag, this troupe of 60-plus-year-old Asian grandmothers has gone viral for their anti-Asian hate rap song, "Gai Mou Sou Rap," that's now been performed IRL across the Bay Area — including today at San Francisco's Chinatown at Portsmouth Square.
SF News Saturday Links: Two-Alarm Fire Damages Mission District Apartment Building, Displaces 13 Residents San Francisco merchants and hotels are gearing up for its first wave of tourism since the pandemic, Abanico Coffee Roasters opened in the Mission District, and a large residential blaze broke out at 3906 Mission Street Friday evening — forcing over a dozen people to evacuate their homes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Beloved Mr. Holmes Bakehouse Goes Belly Up Some parts of the Bay Area could see triple-digit temperatures this weekend, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office released pictures of the weapons used in Wednesday’s VTA train yard mass shooting, and Mr. Holmes Bakehouse has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
SF News As Drug Overdoses Hit All-Time High, Mayor Breed Proposes New Street Response Team San Francisco has seen drug overdoses skyrocket over the past year — a statistic only made worse by the pandemic. To address the crisis, Mayor Breed announced plans to create a new Street Overdose Response Team (SORT) to mitigate the number of future drug-related deaths.
Good Samaritan Rescues Young Falcon From Waters Underneath Bay Bridge A pint-sized raptor was rescued by a passerby Friday, the bird — which was later found out to be "Rachel," a young peregrine falcon born and reared on the PG&E building — was eventually surrendered over to the San Francisco Fire Department.
SF News Twentysomething Man Shot, Killed in SoMa Saturday Night A little after 11 p.m. Saturday, San Francisco police responded to a reported shooting at Mission Street between 7th and 8th streets; a man believed to be in his mid-twenties was found in his vehicle, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.
SF News Sunday Links: Fast-Moving Wine Country Brush Fire Burns Five Acres, Destroys One Building Bay Area churches held vigils Saturday to honor George Floyd ahead of the anniversary of his death, another massive "Free Palestine'' protest was held in San Francisco, and a small (but destructive) wildfire between Windsor and Healdsburg erupted yesterday afternoon — but it was quickly contained.
Arts & Entertainment OMCA Will Reopen to the Public June 18; Admission Free for Opening Weekend After being closed for over a year, the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) will reopen to the public on June 18 — which will also kick-off the museum's three free community access days.
SF News [Update] ABC 7 Says Teen Carjacking Suspect Has Charges Dropped, But That Is Deemed False Charges made against a minor thought to be involved in an attempted robbery and carjacking of a 75-year-old San Francisco woman were said to be dropped by District Attorney Chesa Boudin over a "lack of DNA evidence." But that reporting has since been challenged.
SF News Saturday Links: Over One Million COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Have Been Administered in Santa Clara County A San Jose vehicle crash Friday night killed one pedestrian, the Harvey Milk Day Community Recovery Celebration will take place in the Castro today from 11 a.m to 6 p.m. at various locations, and Santa Clara County has now given more than a million COVID-19 vaccine doses.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oof... Another Dead Whale Has Washed Ashore in the Bay Area San Jose's Willow Glen apartments — a former senior living center — is now reimagined as a homeless shelter, the Castro's Moby Dick bar has finally reopened, and what looks to be another dead whale has washed up in the Bay Area… this time at Pacifica State Beach.
SF News Scenes From This Weekend's 'Free Palestine' Demonstrations in San Francisco As the destruction and overarching chaos — that's included the leveling of a building home to several media offices — between Israeli and Palestinian forces worsens, people in several U.S. cities rallied over this weekend to denounce the violence; San Francisco was no different.
SF News Two Killed in Separate Saturday Shootings in Potrero Hill A man who was shot Saturday afternoon in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood has died, marking now the second killing to have occurred in the area this weekend — and the third homicide recorded in SF since Friday.
