SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Rains Could Finally Be Coming Next Week PG&E has downgraded the scope of its next round of power shutoffs, there was another backyard mountain lion sighting in San Mateo, and meteorologists are watching a big storm over the Pacific that could bring up to two inches of rain here starting next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Five SF Walgreens Closing, Company Blames Shoplifting A vegetation fire in Hillsborough was quickly contained today, Walgreens announced it's closing five more SF stores due to ongoing "retail crime," and the water level at Lake Tahoe has gotten disturbingly low.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 2,191-lb Pumpkin Takes Top Prize at Half Moon Bay Weigh-Off A person was struck in the head by an arriving BART train in West Oakland and is apparently still alive, a winner was declared this morning at the annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off, and Elon Musk trolled Jeff Bezos on Twitter about being richer than him.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Musk Is Taking Tesla HQ to Austin Tesla's headquarters is moving from Palo Alto to Austin, Bernal Heights is getting its first cannabis dispensary, and the SF school board is spending money it doesn't have to appeal the court decision about that mural.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Eagle Gets Landmark Status 40-year-old leather bar The Eagle has been granted historic landmark status, a juror has been dismissed in the Elizabeth Holmes trial over religious objections to imprisonment, and the Ninth Circuit has upheld the freelancer law AB5.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Suspends 2,200 Unvaccinated Employees Santa Clara County is giving out $76 million in pandemic "hero pay" to its employees, Kaiser is suspending 2,200 workers for not being vaccinated, and Giants playoff tickets are selling fast.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jack Dorsey Asks 'How Much?' For Facebook's Domain There was much joking and foolery on Twitter today about the mass outage at Facebook, Oakland's deadliest month to date was September we 17 homicides, and a ship's anchor may be to blame for that oil spill in SoCal.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Three Die Of ODs On BART In One Week Three men were found dead of overdoses on BART trains or in stations this week, SF's Lunar New Year Parade has announced its return in February, and we're in for an early October heatwave this weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fleas Infest Two Oakland Schools Much of the Bay Area is now in the CDC's "moderate" tier for COVID transmission, Santa Cruz County has dropped its mask mandate, and an infestation of fleas has shut down two Oakland elementary schools.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Mask Mandate Might Loosen Soon The SFPD made two arrests in a shooting and attempted robbery of a woman who wouldn't give up her camera, an SF sheriff's deputy is facing multiple charges from a drunken ramage last week, and SF's mask mandate might get a little less strict soon.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Massive Brawl Breaks Out At Vallejo Theme Park Around 100 juveniles were involved in a huge brawl at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Saturday, the DEA is warning about a spike in fentanyl-laced pills, and health officials say they did not see many COVID cases linked to the BottleRock festival.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Is Deemed a Chain, Denied Ability to Open In North Beach There was a rally outside ICE regional headquarters in SF in support of Haitian refugees, Pfizer booster shots for the elderly may start as soon as tomorrow, and a former FDA commissioner says it's likely the Delta wave will be the last wave in this pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fremont Fire Grows Near Sonoma-Napa Border A vegetation fire grew to around 100 acres before progress was made to control it near Napa Road in Sonoma, a 50-year-old Oakland man surrendered to police after shooting one of them in a shootout this morning, and James Mattis testified in the Elizabeth Holmes trial today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fast-Moving Fire Leads to Evacuation In Petaluma A fast-moving vegetation fire caused the evacuation of 900 homes in Petaluma, another young person has apparently been swept out to sea in Santa Cruz, and the Bay Area continues to get gold stars for pandemic mitigation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Tiny Homes for the Homeless Coming to Lots at Gough and Mission A tiny home village is replacing a tent village at Gough and Mission, the homeless hotel experiment has had mostly positive results around the Bay, and Oakland just recorded its 100th homicide of 2021 with more than three months left in the year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Signs Housing Density Bills PG&E bills are likely to go up soon as the company struggles to pay for wildfires it's caused, Newsom signed a pair of housing density bills that came out of Wiener's SB50, and the former Holiday Inn on 8th Street in SoMa will get some micro-unit housing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Men Swept Out to Sea In Santa Cruz In Past Three Days Two men have died after being swept out to sea from Santa Cruz beaches in the past three days, BART may step up enforcement on pets after Monday's tragic death, and Newsom continued his victory lap in Oakland today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: ACLU Sues East Bay School District Over Special Ed A total of 8.7 million Californians returned mail-in ballots before election day, SF has ordered a halt until further notice on the Millennium Tower fix, and the ACLU is suing the Pittsburg Unified School District over its treatment of disabled students of color.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatality Leads to BART Delays President Biden spoke about climate change at stops in Idaho and California today, BART was experiencing major delays after a fatality at Powell Street, and Newsom continues to look like he will remain governor after tomorrow.
SF News Day Around the Bay: It's Been One Year Since the Sky Turned Orange The Red Flag warning for much of the Bay Area starts now with lightning possible, today is the one-year anniversary of the day the skies turned orange in SF, and Merrick Garland announced that the DOJ is suing Texas over that abortion law.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Obama Makes Ad Supporting Newsom In Recall A 65-year-old man was fatally stabbed in the Upper Haight, activists are pushing London Breed to extend the SIP hotel program, and former President Obama has shot a new ad supporting Newsom in the recall.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Grandmother Killed By 8-Year-Old Driving Golf Cart There's a new COVID outbreak at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an East Bay grandmother was tragically killed by her 8-year-old grandson on a golf cart, and Sup. Peskin is calling for a new hearing about the Millennium Tower and its sinking.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Facebook Gives $38M to Affordable Housing Projects The pictures coming from Tahoe area fire cameras are bleak, firefighters face another tense night in the Caldor Fire as it bears down on South Lake Tahoe, and Facebook just awarded $38 million to four Bay Area affordable housing projects.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bonnaroo Canceled Due to Flooding A young man gunned down in Oakland early Sunday has been identified, Newsom made an appearance in Oakland encouraging more vaccinations, and rains from Hurricane Ida have caused flooding in Tennessee that has prompted the cancellation of Bonnaroo.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mendocino County Hospitals Filled With COVID Patients Some Democratic strategists are quietly saying we should vote for Faulconer on the recall ballot, Mendocino County hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, and a 43-year-old SF man has been arrested in a Friday assault on an Asian woman in Chinatown.
