SF News Day Around the Bay: Charles Phan's Hard Water Has Officially Closed on Pier 3 An Oakland city councilmember is pushing to turn part of the old army base into a 1,000-bed homeless shelter, a new summer forecast predicts more dry lighting (and fire), and Charles Phan's Pier 3 bar Hard Water has officially closed for good.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former San Jose Mayor Norm Mineta Has Died California is already preparing to be an abortion “haven” if Roe v. Wade is indeed overturned, the Warriors are unveiling a very odd Ed Lee statue Thursday, and former San Jose mayor and US cabinet secretary Norm Mineta has died.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Historic Berkeley Building Damaged In Fire An historic UC Berkeley event hall was damaged in a fire today, a dead body was discovered near the 24th & Mission BART plaza, and two fires along a freeway in Martinez have been deemed suspicious.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The SF Redistricting Saga is Finally Finished The NFL Draft is now underway with the 49ers as the wild card in the room, the Chronicle editorial board came out swinging against the Department of Homelessness, and the new supervisor districts were finalized and are now in effect.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sphere Sculptures Outside Chase Center Vandalized Those sculptures outside the Chase Center have been vandalized and permanently damaged, there could be some bad traffic tonight with Warriors and Giants games, and the Guerneville Safeway was targeted with a "swatting" incident.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2,000 Tiny Homes Could Be Coming to SF to House the Homeless Population UC schools will offer free tuition to Native American students, the Far East Cafe and Buddha Lounge are getting Legacy Business designations, and 2,000 new tiny homes may be coming to put a big dent in the SF homeless population.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Facebook Is Opening a VR Headset Store In Burlingame Twitter employees are a wee bit concerned what their stock options are worth, COVID cases have jumped 50% in California since March, and Facebook/Meta is opening its first VR headset store in Burlingame.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 49ers’ Breakout Star Deebo Samuel Suddenly Demands Trade Students are apparently assaulting teachers at Everett Middle School, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg reportedly killed a story critical of her boyfriend, and 49ers receiver-running back sensation Deebo Samuel is now demanding a trade.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Says You Don't Need a Mask on the Bus or Train The California Dept. of Public Health said Wednesday that Californians don't need to wear masks on transit, the Dept. of Justice is meanwhile appealing that Florida judge's ruling on masks, and Mike Tyson is over at Hippie Hill for 4/20 promoting something.
SF News Day Around the Bay: The Inevitable SF Redistricting Lawsuit Has Indeed Arrived San Quentin prison is now home the nation’s first “college behind bars,” the ban on use of rape kits to prosecute unrelated crimes is now San Francisco law, and sure enough, a gaggle of local residents is suing San Francisco over the ongoing redistricting drama.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Arson Suspect Arrested In San Jose Home Depot Fire Sherri Papini has officially entered her guilty plea and will now face sentencing, authorities in San Jose have arrested and charged a suspect in the Home Depot fire, and the White House apparently still has Senator Dianne Feinstein's back.
SF News Day Around the Bay: People Are Already Jockeying for Dianne Feinstein’s (Still Occupied) Senate Seat Thursday's rainfall is nothing compared to a storm that’s coming Saturday, a guilty murder verdict finally came down in the case of a victim stabbed 39 times, and replacement names are already being floated after new reports of Dianne Feinstein’s “cognitive decline.”
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zuckerberg Vows to Curb Elections Donations Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan are stopping their donations to help underfunded state elections departments, civil rights attorney Kevin Benedicto is joining the SF Police Commission, and Oakland police have identified the teen girl who was killed last weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Time to Bust Out the Easter Cable Car We have our first look at a potential Geary Street/19th Avenue subway, comedian Gilbert Gottfried passed away Tuesday, and apparently SFMTA has an “Easter cable car,” which is naturally making the rounds this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cleve Jones Says He Will Vacate His Castro Apartment Quietly After All Cleve Jones says he no longer wants to fight his new landlord to have to live in a unit below her, a member of the Gilroy City Council has been cited in connection with a fatal shooting at a Halloween party that occurred at her home, and Sonoma County authorities are seeking an abducted toddler.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Recology Scandals Claim Another City Hall Figure San Francisco had its hottest day in more than six months, there's a naming contest on for the new male Berkeley Campanile falcon, and the city’s Department of the Environment director is out after soliciting a $25,000 Recology donation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Man Arrested After Barricading Himself In Parkmerced Building A former Uber employee is suing the company and claiming they violated federal law, an armed 63-year-old man was arrested for making criminal threats after barricading himself in an SF building, and the Mavericks surf contest is getting revived.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Suspect Arrested In Sacramento Shooting Sacramento police arrested a 26-year-old man early Monday in connection with Sunday's mass shooting, the SFPD is seeking suspects in a Tenderloin stabbing, and Pinterest has unveiled a highly flexible office plan for employees.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Farewell SFO Post Office, We Hardly Knew Ye Those wacky new Van Ness bus shelter sculptures have their lighting ceremony tonight, beloved 100-year-old park national park ranger Betty Reid Soskin has retired, and the SFO airport post office that you never knew about just closed permanently today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Police Face Civil Rights Lawsuit After Taqueria Shooting San Jose police are being accused of negligently shooting a Black man who had actually taken a weapon away from a potential shooter, SF's Laguna Honda hospital is in trouble with the feds, and CHP is seeking a Bay Bridge carjacking suspect.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cable Cars Knocked Out Tuesday by Technical Difficulties The FBI is asking for the public’s help to bust the LAPSUS$ hacker ring, some Presidio hiking trails are ‘no dogs allowed’ again for coyote pupping season, and the cable car system was down much of the day over equipment problems.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tenderloin Rooster Finds New Home With Modesto Parrots Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for new water restrictions on businesses, United Airlines is bringing back a bunch of non-stop flights at SFO, and Will Smith has offered a full apology to Chris Rock and everyone via Instagram.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Zoo’s Sumatran Tiger, Leanne, Has Died At Age 18 Tomorrow is the last day to register for next week’s Burning Man ticket sale, that tiny-house fire in Oakland is raising serious safety questions for the company that built them, and the SF Zoo is mourning the loss of 18-year-old Sumatran tiger Leanne.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Car Owners Could Get Up to $800 For Gas Under Newsom Proposal Gov. Gavin Newsom is proposing $400 debit cards for every registered car in the state as a gas rebate, two arson suspects were arrested in Contra Costa County for setting vegetation fires, and Madeline Albright has died.
SF News Day Around the Bay: How Karl the Fog Can Help Solve the Drought California has confirmed its first Latina state Supreme Court judge, there’s a Nancy Pelosi documentary premiering on PBS tonight, and a new SFPUC pilot program is harvesting water from the fog to help alleviate the drought.