SF News Day Around the Bay: Local Asian Communities Celebrate Big Wins at Academy Awards Some local startups were able to access their frozen accounts at Silicon Valley Bank today; a race is on to plug the breached levee in Monterey County; and local Asian communities celebrated Oscar wins for Michelle Yeoh and 'Everything Everywhere All at Once.'
SF News Day Around the Bay: Entwined LED Forest Has Its Closing Party Canceled Over Weather The Cure is coming to the Bay Area in May, the 49ers laid off a bunch of longtime stadium staffers while making some dubious revenue claims, and the big Saturday night closing party for the LED forest Entwined has been canceled because of the rainy weather.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Goat Spotted Running Loose In SoMa Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered a $54M contract canceled with Walgreens over their abortion drug decision; a suspect in an attempted robbery died in an Oakland crash; and a random white goat was running around in SoMa today without explanation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Marin County Appraiser Ordered To Pay Up In Notorious Racial Disparity Case A study shows the Bay Area has actually gotten more affordable for many renters in the last decade, protesters disrupted a PG&E wildfire mitigation conference in San Ramon, and the real estate appraiser who seemingly lowballed a Black couple has agreed to pay a settlement.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fire In Polk Street Building Caused By Scooter Battery SF's Dept. of Public Works says it's repairing triple the number of potholes due to all the rain; a woman killed by a fallen tree in a San Jose park has been identified, and a fire Saturday in the Polk Gulch neighborhood was caused by a scooter battery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now You Have Until October 16 To Do Both Your State And Federal Taxes Another quixotic attempt to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is before Congress, now even Salesforce wants to sublease space in Salesforce Tower, and the state of California has joined the feds in not requiring many Californians to file their taxes until October 16.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Berkeley Falcon Named For Real-Life Partner Of Falcon Annie's Namesake A Mission housing nonprofit is being sued for allegedly "abandoning" veterans, the Chronicle has responded to billionaire Michael Moritz's NYT op-ed dragging them, and the hunky new Berkeley falcon-cam male got a new name with a heartwarming backstory.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now Your (Federal) Taxes Aren’t Due Until October 16 One of Mayor Breed’s scandal-plagued picks for the homeless oversight commission looks finished, arrests have been made in that Super Bowl Sunday Dolores Park attack, and the feds are now giving us until October 16 to file our taxes.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Explosion Suspect Pleads Not Guilty Heavy gunfire rang out at Ninth and Howard in SoMa today in a driveby; Sunset District explosion suspect Darron Price entered not guilty pleas today; and someone wearing a 'Scream' mask freaked out people in Sonoma Plaza.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Highway 101 Traffic Snarled By Downed Tree in Menlo Park SFPD has arrested a serial convenience store robbery suspect who is (!) 60 years old, we have our first poll in the four-way race for Feinstein’s Senate seat, and Highway 101 was a mess all afternoon when it was shut down over a downed tree.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk and Newsom Have Odd Exchange at Tesla Facility Opening Elon Musk and Gov. Gavin Newsom shared some awkward words at an event celebrating a new Tesla facility in Palo Alto; a man was shot and injured in McLaren Park; and Rep. Barbara Lee has made her Senate candidacy official.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wind Knocks Out More Lines, Now More Than 100,000 Customers Without Power A Richmond District Dungeness crab favorite is moving, the Bay Bridge lanes shut down by a fallen tree in today’s storms are mostly reopen, but the number of Bay Area households without power has grown to more than 100,000.
SF News Presidents’ Day Around the Bay: 1000 Van Ness Movie Theater Is Closing At Month's End Local Mardi Gras festivities started this weekend in North Beach, a Pac Heights mansion was listed for $35 million, and we just got word the old 1000 Van Ness movie theater will be ceasing operations on February 28.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Is Ending The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency On February 28 The new street drug “tranq” has been found in the blood streams of SF overdose victims, Depeche Mode announced they’re playing the Chase Center in December, and SF’s COVID-19 public health emergency declaration will end on February 28.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect In Sunset Explosion Appears In Court Explosion suspect Darron Price was arraigned and his attorney "vehemently" denies the charges against him; Republicans are subpoena-ing tech CEOs again; two big NorCal craft breweries are merging.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Pops In To SF Board of Supervisors Meeting A new lawsuit could double the cost of the Golden Gate Bridge suicide prevention net, Bruce Springsteen is playing the Chase Center in December, and Nancy Pelosi was the guest of honor at today’s SF Board of Supervisors meeting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Smashes Fisherman's Wharf Store In Burglary A car was used to smash into the Lids store at Fisherman's Wharf this morning for a burglary; Shake Shack is paying $20K to a former trans employee who was harassed by coworkers; and another sideshow shut down the Bay Bridge early Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: We Have New Renderings Of The Housing Going Into the Former Haight Street McDonald’s The Warriors brought back fan favorite Gary Payton II, some 100,000 San Franciscans are about to get their CalFresh food benefits slashed, and a new batch of renderings of the affordable housing project coming to the Haight Street McDonald’s site have been revealed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Report Calls Oakland Police Chief 'Not Credible' A new report from investigators into the latest Oakland police scandal calls Chief LeRonne Armstrong "not credible" in statements he made; the SFPD announced a $50K reward in a Sept. 2022 Fillmore shooting case; and UC Berkeley has "unnamed" another building that was named for a white supremacist.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cliff House Getting A New Restaurant, But No One Knows What It Is Oakland had its housing element rejected by the state, SF’s city-owned vehicles are also getting nailed by catalytic converter thefts, and there’s a new restaurant coming to the Cliff House space but they haven’t announced what the restaurant is.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Announces $50K Rewards In Four Cold Cases Gov. Gavin Newsom announced four $50K rewards for four cold cases murders including one in San Pablo in 2020; a DoorDash driver in San Jose says he was attacked by a machete in a road rage incident; and a man has been charged with murder in Oakland's first homicide case of the near year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Friends of the Urban Forest Giving Away Free Fruit Trees It looks like rain for Saturday’s Lunar New Year Parade, a man fired shots in an SF synagogue but they ended up being blanks, and Friends of the Urban Forest are having a fruit tree giveaway.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Laguna Honda Gets Another Reprieve From Feds VP Kamala Harris spoke today at the funeral for Tyre Nichols in Memphis, federal regulators have once again granted a reprieve to Laguna Honda Hospital from having to move patients, and one SF property owner tried to use that 'builder's remedy' clause but it didn't actual kick in.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Kids Throw ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-Themed Kegger, Are Alright 49ers defensive coordinator DeMeco Ryans has been poached for a head coaching job, mid-Market vegetarian spot Ananda Fuara is closing, and Glen Park is in a huff after youngsters commandeered a park for a ‘Wolf of Wall Street’-themed keg party.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland Zoo to Reopen Friday After Sinkhole Situation An employee at Pizza Squared who denied service to SFPD officers has been fired, charges have been filed against the man who allegedly drove his family off a Pacifica cliff, and the Oakland Zoo is opening up again Friday with Glowfari extended.
