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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Manages to Ram $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill Through House Nancy Pelosi herded the cats she needed on the spending and infrastructure bill, Swan Oyster Depot is getting Yelp-mobbed over what a customer felt was a racist incident, and a court shot down a lawsuit against the feds from Kate Steinle’s parents.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cache Fire In Clearlake Prompts Evacuations A freeway shooting investigation shuts down southbound 280 in SF, the brand new Cache Fire is threatening Clearlake, and the Red Flag Warning for parts of the Bay Area has been canceled early.
SF News Day Around the Bay: North Beach Bar Says It's Closing Because Of Vaccine, Mask Mandates East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell has a "help desk" set up in Castro Valley for Afghans concerned about their relatives, CA Attorney General Rob Bonta says he'll review the 2009 Oscar Grant shooting, and two people were injured today in the Caldor Fire.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Staffer Tests Positive for COVID Two Oakland schools have already had to contend with small COVID outbreaks, a vaccinated Newsom staffer has tested positive, and the Great Highway reopened to cars this morning following a Sunday protest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Prison Inmates Can't Have Pot A suspect has been arrested in last weekend's road-rage incident in the Oakland hills, the CA Supreme Court just ruled that prison inmates can't have marijuana under the state's recreational law, and Reddit just raised $410 million in fresh funding.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kate Steinle Shooting Suspect Again Ordered to Get Mental Evaluation A second suspect has been arrested in the 2020 shooting of Jace Young, Oakland is bringing the CHP in to do more law enforcement, and Jose Ines Garcia Zarate has again been ordered to get a new mental health evaluation.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Chevron Refinery Flaring Again A boy of unknown age was shot on Stockton Street in Union Square Tuesday afternoon, the Chevron refinery sent plumes of black smoke over the East Bay, and a new UCSF study connects COVID with preterm births in pregnant women.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dixie Fire Smoke Blowing Into Denver and Elsewhere 200 SF city employees have sent conspiracy-filled letters to HR about the vaccine mandate, the Dixie Fire is sending noxious smoke very far away, and no foul play was found in an initial autopsy of Berkeley runner Philip Kreycik.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Cars Allowed Back on the Great Highway, Starting Monday The Great Highway will allow cars again on weekdays only, people are pulling guns on firemen and refusing to evacuate in the River Fire, and Guy Fieri showed up at the Sonoma County Fair to drop $30,000 on live pigs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: River Fire In Placer County Grows Quickly, Threatens Colfax A new wildfire on the border between Placer and Nevada counties has quickly grown amid high winds, an air quality advisory has been issued for the Bay Area for Thurs/Fri, and runner Philip Kreycik's presumed remains included his smartwatch.
