SF News Day Around the Bay: David Chiu is Your New San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu gets officially sworn in, more stimmy checks are coming from Sacramento, and kids ages 5-11 may be able to get their COVID-19 vaccinations as early as this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Longtime Manager Bob Melvin Leaves the Oakland A’s Oakland A's’ manager Bob Melvin dumps the team after 11 great seasons, new city administrator Carmen Chu is already taking knocks for enabling corruption, and Outside Lands is promising some sort of livestream.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Non-Citizens Can Vote in the School Board Recall Mayor Breed gets a glowing New York Times mention, non-citizens can vote in the upcoming school board recall election, and Hertz just bought 100,000 Teslas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: BART Is Reopening Some Restrooms Closed Since 9/11 BART just announced a February reopening for restrooms at Powell Street and 19th Street stations, SF DA Chesa Boudin's dad is officially getting paroled, and Lake Tahoe's water level rose five inches in one day during Sunday's rain, recovering to its normal rim.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Might Mandate Sick Leave for Domestic Workers The Board of Supes may seek to mandate paid sick leave for housecleaners and nannies, a man was shot and critically wounded in Hayes Valley/Lower Haight Saturday, and the estimated cost of BART's San Jose extension just shot up.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired Oakland Cop and 'Ceasefire' Head Shot During Attempted Robbery A retired OPD captain and head of the city's Ceasefire program was shot in a gun battle at a gas station Thursday, Harlan Kelly pleaded not guilty to new charges, and the Caldor Fire has reached 100% containment.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Netflix Employees Walk Out Over Chappelle, CEO Admits ‘I Screwed Up’ David Chiu’s first task as city attorney will be to take on DoorDash, SF just reversed a policy on asking city employees’ sexual orientation, and the CEO of Netflix admits he could have maybe handled this whole Chappelle thing better.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Looks to Sell City Hall Air Rights for $45M The dead man in the Phish concert fall on Sunday has been ID'd, fans continue to talk about how unsafe those upper levels of the Chase Center seem, and SF may try to sell the air rights belonging to City Hall for $45 million.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Jane Kim Apologizes For Jon Jacobo Event Invite Jane Kim was called out by the SF Women's Political Committee for bringing an accused sexual assault suspect to a political event, Berkeley parents are scrambling amid a bus driver COVID outbreak, and someone ripped the Twitch sign off the company's headquarters.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parking Near Oracle Is Going For Over $100 Parking near the ballpark is going for $120 tonight, the family member in the Richmond Police chief story is her daughter, and activists in Oakland were protesting the media's bias toward reporting missing white women stories.
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.
