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?
SF News Day Around the Bay: Overnight Temperatures May Dip Into the 30s Retail cannabis sales have been a downer this year, two alleged shooters from a fatal August Muni bus shooting have been arrested, and an incoming cold wave could bring overnight temperatures in the 30s, and will leave Lake Tahoe on avalanche watch.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google Settles Suit Over Misleading Pixel Phone Campaign Google/Alphabet and iHeartMedia are settling a lawsuit over a misleading Pixel 4 ad campaign, the air quality management district wants to buy your old (pre-1999) car, and the UC worker strike is in its third week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Asking for Killer Robots That Can Use Deadly Force An earthquake just hit the South Bay, Dungeness crab season might never start before Thanksgiving again, and SFPD wants its robots to be “used as a deadly force option” against civilians.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yeah, It’s Nuts At the Airport Right Now Bay Area hospitals are running out of pediatric beds over the RSV outbreak, Coinbase CEO blames San Francisco for Coinbase leaving San Francisco, and expect record-setting crowds if you’re heading to a Bay Area airport.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Great Dickens Christmas Fair Returns In Full Glory Two suspects — a teen and a 23-year-old — have been arrested in connection with a deadly Redwood City crash, a man was randomly stabbed on Oakland's Lakeshore Avenue today, and Gov. Newsom has unfrozen those homeless funds he previously froze.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Elizabeth Holmes Files Final Plea For Leniency Elizabeth Holmes’s lawyers continue to beg for leniency, Ticketmaster is canceling Friday’s public sale of Taylor Swift tickets at Levi’s Stadium, and sex work activist Carol Leigh, popularly known as “Scarlot Harlot,” has died.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Seven Injured When Two Muni Metro Trains Collide On Embarcadero Seven people were injured when two Muni Metro trains collided in South Beach Wednesday, Matt Mahan is officially the new mayor of San Jose, and Kara Swisher says Elon Musk is... complicated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Engardio Inches to Victory, Ann Hsu Falls Further Behind in Vote-Count Update Accused serial sex offender Bill Gene Hobbs was denied release, Netflix is rolling out a way to kick freeloaders off your account, and the latest vote count is great news for D4 candidate Joel Engardio and bad news for school board member Ann Hsu.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jennifer Siebel Newsom Takes Stand In Weinstein Trial Jennifer Siebel Newsom gave some emotional testimony in the Harvey Weinstein trial, the Oakland mayor's race remains tight, and Twitter could be in trouble with EU regulators soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: R.J. Reynolds Sues State of California Over Flavored Tobacco, Menthol Ban Joel Engardio remains ahead in the latest ballot counting drop, NY Times-famous Boichik Bagels just added a new location, and Big Tobacco is suing California for banning flavored tobacco.
