SF News Day Around the Bay: Castro-Mission Health Center Reopens — With Upgrades A four-alarm vegetation fire caused home damage along I-580 this afternoon, someone was struck by a BART train today, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held yesterday at the reopened (and upgraded) Castro-Mission Health Center.
SF News Photos: Thousands Turn Out to Celebrate BART's 50th Birthday On Saturday, BART fans thronged Lake Merritt Station to attend a big birthday bash for BART's 50th birthday. It was a day filled with themed cakes, a time capsule unveiling, and a "downright disturbing" train replica with a human-like face.
SF News Suspect In Fatal Stabbing at SF BART Station Arrested BART announced that SF police arrested a suspect in the deadly stabbing that happened at the 24th Street Station in San Francisco on August 28.
SF News Sunday Links: SF Man Killed in Saturday Morning Stabbing, Suspect Arrested The Mosquito Fire grew to over 41,000 acres overnight, today marks 21 years since the 9/11 terrorist acts — which remain the deadliest to ever occur on American soil — and a 33-year-old was fatally stabbed Saturday morning in Bayview.
SF News Mosquito Fire Grows to Over 33,000 Acres, Becomes Largest Currently Burning CA Wildfire As of Saturday afternoon, the Mosquito Fire has burned 33,754 acres — with still 0% of the blaze contained and now threatens 3,666 structures — which makes it the largest fire currently burning in the state.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Heatwave Causes Dozens of Hospitalizations Smokey skies in parts of the Bay Area will likely continue into the weekend, Dog Eared Books is turning 30 years old, and the incredibly hot weather this week led many people to end up in local hospitals for heat-related health problems.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Opera Will Kick Off Centennial Season This Weekend Pete Buttigieg toured areas of Oakland Friday, the Mosquito Fire has now swelled to almost 30,000 acres, and the San Francisco Opera will debut its newest concert season this weekend.
SF News That Suicide Prevention Net Along Golden Gate Bridge Won't Be Done for at Least Another Year Having begun construction in 2018, the GGB's suicide prevention net system — a $211M project ideated back in 2015, but has experienced many setbacks, some spurred by the pandemic — is now set to be done by November 2023, a full two years past its originally planned completion date.
SF News Labor Day Links: Bay Area Heatwave Expected to Stick Around Even Longer Firefighters saved a six-month-old baby after being left in a hot car in Oakland, don't forget that nightly street sweeping and parking meters are still enforced today by SFMTA, and the current Bay Area heatwave is now expected to last until Thursday.
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.5M Earthquake Rattles Off Near San Jose The United States Geological Survey (USGS) registered a 3.5-magnitude earthquake near Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range — less than 25 miles from downtown San Jose.
SF News Two Large NorCal Wildfires Continue Growing, Force Thousands to Evacuate Since starting Friday, the Mountain and Mill fires in Siskiyou County have collectively burned over 13,000 acres... with little containment reported for each fire.
SF News Sunday Links: Here's When It's Going to Be the Hottest During This Bay Area Heatwave Two pedestrians were killed in San Jose Saturday, the Bay Area’s Spare the Air Alert has been extended to at least Sunday night, and this Labor Day weekend’s heat wave will bring its warmest days Monday and Tuesday.
SF News SF Launches Heat Mapping Effort to Find 'Heat Islands' As this weekend's heatwave descends on the Bay Area, thirty volunteers are participating in a community heat mapping project — called Urban Heat Watch— as part of SF's effort to better understand and locate "heat islands" in the city.
SF news Saturday Links: Spare the Air Alert in Effect for Most of Bay Area Today A 12-year-old girl was shot in Pittsburg during a fit of road rage, UC Berkeley will require face masks for students who opted out of flu shots, and the Bay Area Air District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for smog Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Took an Oakland Police Cruiser on a Joy Ride This Week Wine Country tourism is eerily slow this summer, a new poll suggests that most Americans believe democracy is “in danger of collapse,” and deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrested someone who allegedly stole — and crashed — an Oakland Police cruiser this week.
SF News Man Fatally Stabbed at SF BART Station, Suspect Still at Large Around 1:40 p.m. Sunday, a man was stabbed at the BART station at 24th and Mission streets in San Francisco; the victim later succumbed to his wounds and the suspect remains at large after fleeing the area.
SF News SF Police Chief Releases Statement In Support of Officers' Decision to Not Arrest Alleged Catalytic Converter Thief After catching an enormous amount of flak for releasing an alleged catalytic converter villain, SF Police Chief William Scott released a statement just before the weekend in support of the officers who didn't arrest the man.
SF News New Millennium Tower Fix Approved by San Francisco Will (Hopefully) Stop and Reverse Tilt Scaled down from the original plan, the revised fix relies on 18 piles — instead of the initially proposed 52 — to anchor the 645-foot high-rise to bedrock on the two sides where it's leaned and tilted the most, helping both prevent future tilt and straighten the building.
SF News Sunday Links: Moon Festival Brings an Estimated 40,000 Visitors to SF's Chinatown A small earthquake rattled an area near San Jose, there's a Bay Area air quality advisory in effect for Sunday, and small businesses in Chinatown saw a boom in sales Saturday when tens of thousands of visitors attended SF’s Moon Festival.
SF News West Oakland Shooting and Traffic Collision Incident Leaves Three Dead According to the Oakland Police Department (OPD), three people were killed after a car crash, which involved multiple vehicles, and a shooting occurred on the 2800 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Way Friday night.
SF News Saturday Links: SFDPH Will Host Drop-In Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic This Weekend Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is holding a monkeypox vaccine clinic Sunday, new businesses have helped SF’s Ferry Building attract more traffic lately, and the New York Times wants to remind us San Franciscans we shouldn’t apologize for our cool summers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Judge Requests Musk and Twitter to Present Additional Documents A shooting on a BART train near the Lake Merritt station injured one person, the Silicon Valley Pride parade is expected to draw some 20,000 people this weekend, and a Delaware judge has ordered both Twitter and Musk to turn over more documentation in the ongoing legal battle between them.
SF News Weekend Palate Cleanser: San Francisco SPCA Is Still Waiving Adoption Fees on Dogs and Cats Dozens of adult dogs and cats under SF SPCA's care are still in need of their forever homes. Until August 31, those looking to introduce a new fur baby into their lives can do so — without paying any adoption fees.
SF News How Much Did the Average SF City Employee Make in 2021? Around $127K During the 2020-2021 fiscal year, thousands of people were employed by San Francisco. The lowest-earning among them made a bit more than $36k during that period, while the highest earner pulled in $602K. But collectively, the average SF City employee earned roughly $127K last year.
SF News Sunday Links: California Releases First Monkeypox Quarantine Guidelines CDPH issued isolation practices for those suffering from a symptomatic monkeypox infection this week, two large fires burned in downtown San Jose Saturday, and First Lady Jill Biden is now negative for COVID-19 after testing positive this past Monday.
