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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Delta Variant Brings COVID Full Circle Back to Wuhan Mass testing and lockdowns are underway again in Wuhan, China thanks to the Delta variant, a man turned himself in for a SoMa stabbing, and a hiker in NorCal was fatally struck by lightning on Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Twitter Reacts to New Mask Mandate Many San Franciscans expressed disappointment and anger about the new mask mandate on Twitter today, a parolee and his passenger took Vallejo police on a wild chase over the weekend, and the SFFD had to do another cliff rescue at Fort Funston.
SF News Day Around the Bay: South San Francisco Police Retrieve Stolen Frenchie In Sting A study of older patients finds significant data linking COVID-19 with long-term cognitive decline, police in South San Francisco staged a sting to retrieve a French bulldog stolen during a robbery, and SF mourns the loss of activist and poet Janice Mirikitani.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Google and Facebook Make Employees Get Vaccinated Google has pushed its back-to-the-office time until mid-October, the death toll in Monday's plane crash in Truckee has risen to six, and Martin Shkreli sold his Wu-Tang album to pay his court debts.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Solano County Health Officer Still A Maverick Solano County Health Officer Dr. Bela Matyas continues to push back on mask mandates, recall candidate Kevin Faulconer also hates mask mandates, and Gov. Newsom has pulled his kids out of a summer camp because it has no mask mandate.
