SF News MLK Day Around the Bay: Two Dozen Cars Get Flat Tires From Pothole on 101 Caltrain's NorCalMLK Celebration train ran for the first time in three years today, the CHP is seeking help identifying a suspect in a Jan. 1 hit-and-run in Concord, and at least 25 cars got flat tires from the same pothole on Highway 101 in Redwood City.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Defense Seeks to Disqualify SF DA From Troy McAlister Case The public defender for Troy McAlister is looking to get DA Brooke Jenkins and her staff disqualified from the high-profile case; SF's biggest landlord has defaulted on a loan; and a previously rejected condo project is back on deck in SoMa.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pedestrian Killed at 16th and Valencia A 64-year-old woman was struck and killed while crossing the intersection of 16th and Valencia, Oakland appears to be losing out on a federal grant linked to the A's stadium site, and there will be a recount in the Oakland mayor's race.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Storms Have Claimed At Least 17 Lives An SF gallery owner is going viral for spraying an unhoused woman with a hose, the Giants are now looking vindicated in the Carlos Correa mess, and the death toll stands at 17 in these two weeks of California storms.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo Takes In Second Orphaned Mountain Lion Cub Another mountain lion cub was found abandoned near Santa Cruz and brought to the Oakland Zoo, some spots to our south saw 10 inches of rain between last night and this morning, and Mary's Pizza Shack is closing several more locations.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Works Sandbag Giveaway Resumes As Reinforcements Arrive Mayor Breed is getting some grief over storm preparedness, two below-ground theater venues found themselves completely flooded, and Public Works is handing out sandbags again after they ran out on Wednesday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Point Richmond and Niles Canyon Residents Evacuated Over Landslide Risks Alameda County officials strongly advised residents of Niles Canyon to evacuate Wednesday; 15 homes have been evacuated in Point Richmond due to a potential landslide occurring above them; and PG&E already had 25,000 customers without power at 4 p.m.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brian Sabean Leaves the Giants For the NY Yankees That terrifying Tesla crash at Devil’s Slide is now considered to be intentional, feds have charged the man who was busted in the Tenderloin with nearly eight pounds of fentanyl, and architect of the Giants’ dynasty Brian Sabean is leaving the team’s front office to join the New York Yankees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newark Firefighters Attempt Rescue of Man Who Fell Into a Bin of Gypsum Powder The team behind Bistro Don Giovanni is opening a new Italian seafood place in Napa, the Castro’s Rooster & Rice location has closed, and firefighters in Newark pulled out a man who fell into a four-story bin of hazardous gypsum powder and he did not survive.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Suspects Arrested In 24th & Mission Shooting A 19-year-old and a 20-year-old have been arrested in connection with a fatal Dec. 18 shooting at 24th and Mission; a dramatic car chase ended with lanes closed on I-80 in Vallejo; and Muni has announced free service all night on New Year's Eve.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Storms Bring Enormous Waves, Flood-Related Traffic Jams To Bay Area What's shaping up to be the wettest last week of December in 17 years has brought three-mile-long traffic jams to the South Bay, 20-foot waves in the North Bay, and skiers getting turned away on the Tahoe slopes.
SF News Day Around The Bay: No Wood Fires For Christmas, As It’s Spare The Air Through Sunday A carjacking at Ocean View Park left a man shot, run over, and in critical condition, the Castro Indian restaurant Bhoga is soon to close permanently, and Spare The Air days are in effect through the weekend, so no wood fires for your Christmas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Mandates Masks Again In All Government Buildings Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gives a powerful speech before Congress; Oakland has reinstated its mask mandate for government buildings; and Tesla is reportedly planning layoffs.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Condor Club Becomes First Topless Club To Get Legacy Business Status Prominent SF landlord Victor Makras managed to avoid jail time for bank fraud, Oakland college Holy Names University is closing after 154 years, and North Beach’s Condor Club is officially the first strip club on the SF Legacy Business Registry.
SF News Friday Links: The Legendary Savoy Tivoli Comes Alive Again In North Beach The victim in an accidental house fire Friday morning was an elderly woman; the state investigates John Muir Health hospital after four children's deaths; and the OG Boba Guys location closes for good after a months-long backlash.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Tried To Bring A Gun Into SF City Hall You can now order another batch of free at-home COVID-19 tests, North Beach jazz bar Savoy Tivoli reopens today, and someone tried get a handgun through the metal detector at City Hall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Investigation Clears VTA of Negligence In Mass Shooting An outside investigation has cleared the VTA and its managers of negligence in missing warning signs of last year's mass shooting; Elon Musk is sending the mob after Yoel Roth now; and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested in the Bahamas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Eggo Factory Fined After Ammonia Leak An Eggo waffle factory in the South Bay has been ordered to pay $85K over an ammonia gas leak, Alameda High School has had two weird incidents with intruders on campus, and Elton John announced he's quitting Twitter over its new policies.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Is Trying to Thwart New Year's Eve Party Rentals Airbnb is once again trying to keep people from renting homes for New Year's parties in SF and elsewhere, a prominent activist in San Jose was killed in a pedestrian crash, and downtown architecture firm Gensler has just signed a big new lease.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan Faces $19K Ethics Fine Oakland Vice Mayor Rebecca Kaplan is facing a fine for not disclosing her ownership of some property, an Oakland high school student was stabbed by another student at school, and a motorcyclist died in a Mission District collision.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mosswood Meltdown Names Le Tigre As Its 2023 Headliner The Giants have their first free agent signing (but it’s not Aaron Judge), there are fresh rumors that the Trump family hates Kim Guilfoyle, and the reunited Le Tigre is on tap for Mosswood Meltdown 2023.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara DA Leaves Twitter, Urges Other DAs to Do So Santa Clara County DA Jeff Rosen is leaving Twitter over hate speech, there was a 3.7M earthquake near San Jose today, and Newsom is proposing a penalty for oil companies' price gouging.
SF News Day Around the Bay: First SF Flu Death of the Season Was Person Under Age 65 The SF health department announced the first flu death of the season, Mayor London Breed is being called out in testimony in case about clearing homeless encampments, and the downtown SF Container Store is closing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Giants Spitball-Throwing Legend Gaylord Perry Has Died Somebody jacked an Amazon delivery van in the Haight, a Mission District taqueria suffered another round of break-ins and vandalism, and pitcher Gaylord Perry, who has a statue outside Oracle Park, has died.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Expands Service to Renters Who Want to Host Travelers Airbnb is partnering with corporate landlords to allow renters to sublet units to travelers for short stays, Elon Musk and Tim Cook have mended fences, and Steph Curry sold that mansion in Atherton so where's he living?