SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Someone’s Illegally-Owned Marmoset Golden Boy Pizza is opening a new location in Parkside; the flagship Trader Vic’s in Emeryville may have to close next year; and the Oakland Zoo has taken in an illegally-owned and injured marmoset monkey.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF to Acquire St. Mary's and St. Francis Hospitals UCSF is reportedly weeks away from closing a deal to acquire two struggling hospitals; a sex offender was arrested for jumping a fence at a Livermore school and acting lewdly; and the top wind gust recorded in the Bay on Sunday was 102 mph.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chinatown Gets New Set of ‘Avant Garde’ Lanterns in Time for Lunar New Year The bar coming into the Castro’s former Harvey’s will now be called Pink Swallow; two more SF supervisors got Garry Tan-inspired death threat mailers; and some newly designed lanterns have been placed up in Chinatown.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 30-Year-Old SF Bar Faces Possible Eviction Blackthorn, a 30-year-old bar in the Sunset, is facing a possible eviction; a judge has ruled that Californians don't need background checks to buy bullets; and Clorox is offering security escorts to employees exiting their Oakland headquarters.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lost MC Hammer Tapes Discovered in Modesto Storage Unit Michael Bloomberg just gave $200,000 to re-elect London Breed; a San Leandro man has been sentenced to eight years for sex trafficking; and a trove of what appears to be lost MC Hammer tapes was discovered in a storage unit in Modesto.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sotomayor Expresses Frustration With SCOTUS at Berkeley Event Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was in Berkeley today discussing her frustrations with the court; a Google engineer believed murdered by her husband in Santa Clara has been ID'd; and a person was stabbed near the State Capitol in Sacramento Monday morning.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Muddy Waters Coffee House is Up for Sale Levi’s is laying off 10% of its corporate workforce right after spending big on Levi’s Stadium naming rights; Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe is changing his name; and the Muddy Waters on Valencia Street is on the selling block for $75,000.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man With Gun Arrested for Indecent Exposure Outside SF School A man was arrested for indecent exposure after allegedly sitting in his car outside Washington High in SF; Rep. Josh Harder wants the DEA to criminalize Tranq; and six bodies were found in the Mojave desert under strange circumstances.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Vandal Suspect Arrested for Doing $10,000 Damage to Restaurant That Hadn’t Opened Yet A widely TikTok-mocked office-to-condo conversion has actually sold; now even teenagers are getting jilted out of payments by the SFUSD payroll fiasco; and SFPD has arrested a suspect in this week’s vandalism of planters outside the restuarant Alora that's opening Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Whole Foods Space at Eighth and Market Is Up For Lease Chunli Zhao, the man accused in last year's mass shooting in Half Moon Bay, was just formally indicted by a grand jury; the short-lived Whole Foods space on mid-Market is up for lease; and Judge Judy is out campaigning for Nikki Haley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Statue of Controversial ‘Colonizer’ Removed in Pacifica Another arrest has been made in the murder of the ex-cop providing security for a KRON4 crew; SF’s former Westfield mall is losing yet another tenant; and the controversial statue of a Spanish explorer has been removed in Pacifica.
Arts & Entertainment Day Around the Bay: Local Band Shoots Video On Late-Night BART Trains A date has been set for David DePape's state trial; Tesla owners in frigid Chicago are having some major trouble operating their cars in this weather; and local band Business Casual has a new video for their song "Last BART," shot on BART.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now the California DPH Says You Can Go to Work With COVID-19 The Supreme Court handed trans kids a surprise win on bathroom issues; China Live struck a deal so that it won’t be evicted; and the California Department of Public Health just puzzlingly said you can go to work with COVID-19 if you don’t have symptoms.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found Near Site of Half Moon Bay Plane Crash The body of one victim of yesterday's plane crash off Half Moon Bay has likely been found; one of the victims in a hot-air balloon crash in Arizona was a 24-year-old from Cupertino; and hundreds take part in an MLK Day march in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dungeness Crab Season Will Finally Begin Next Week Another avalanche hit Palisades Tahoe Thursday; former Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf is running for state treasurer; and Dungeness crab season will finally begin on January 18 after many delays.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BottleRock Three-Day Passes Sell Out Fast SF-based Twitch is laying off a third of its staff; three-day passes for BottleRock have already sold out; and SF Animal Care & Control has a full shelter and is waiving adoption fees for dogs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: King Tides Set to Return Wednesday, Brace for Flooding Near Embarcadero SF has recorded its first flu death of 2024; the popular pop-up Bernal Bakery is getting a permanent brick-and-mortar home; and the King Tides are expected back in SF on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Special Election Set For Kevin McCarthy's Seat SF health officials announced the season's first flu death; Gov. Newsom announced a May 21 date for the special election to fill Kevin McCarthy's House seat; and the wall around People's Park is nearly complete.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ‘Point Reyes Shipwreck’ May Soon Be Gone Another mass shooting at an Iowa high school killed a sixth grader and injured five others; London Breed is touting a decrease in SF crime over the holidays; and the so-called Point Reyes shipwreck could be gone from its Inverness beach before long.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma Teens Caught Stealing Cow-Crossing Sign, Others A judge has ruled that DA Pamela Price has to recuse herself from prosecuting a former employee; the Valencia bike lane saw a significant drop in usage; and some Sonoma County teens got caught stealing road signs, because they got stuck in some mud.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sierra Nevada Snowpack at Just 25% of Its Usual Average Elon Musk had a snit over Green Day’s New Year’s Eve performance; that November state gambling initiative is getting ready to spend big; and the Sierra Nevada snowpack is at just a fraction of where it normally is in a new year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Gigantic Waves Rollick Bay Area Coast, Get Recorded in Stunning Videos Thursday’s high tidal surges caused evacuations in Marin County, inundated Santa Cruz and Capitola with floods, and nearly cost the life of a daredevil surfer in Pacifica, while eyewitnesses caught much of this on video.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Rejects Police Commission's Candidate List A man was shot and possibly killed in the Tenderloin Wednesday morning; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has rejected a list of three candidates for police chief; and there was a fire at the San Leandro Marina.
SF News Boxing Day Around the Bay: Pizza Hut Laying Off 1,200 California Delivery Drivers The rain is expected to return Wednesday morning; a Los Altos strip mall is in danger of collapsing after a Christmas Day fire; and Pizza Hut is laying off California delivery drivers as a new state wage law is about to take effect.
SF News Shortest Day of the Year Around the Bay: Not Much Snow in Tahoe This Christmas Santa Clara and the 49ers are in another dispute over that big Christmas Night game; a police chase rattled the Precita Park area last night; and the Christmas weekend snow depth at Tahoe will likely disappoint skiers.
