SF News Day Around the Bay: Congestion Pricing In Downtown SF Still on the Table A brush fire near the Berkeley Marina on Sunday was likely sparked by outdoor cooking at a homeless encampment, congestion pricing is still being studied to alleviate SF traffic, and "long COVID" is now going to be covered under federal disability law.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen's Gun Photo Prompts Plane Evacuation at SFO Two inmates at a South Bay jail were found unresponsive and one has died, a teenager sending around a photo of a replica gun caused an entire plane to be evacuated at SFO, and former 49ers assistant coach Greg Knapp has died after being hit by a car on his bicycle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Muni Lines May Not Return After Pandemic Mayor Breed’s comments have some Muni riders suspicious that certain bus lines might never return, the 49ers add an Antioch native to the roster, and the Castro Street Fair is back on for 2021.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Car Lands In San Jose Swimming Pool Smoke from West Coast wildfires is already blowing over New York, a car landed in a San Jose swimming pool, and neighborhood groups in Berkeley are suing to stop a deal struck between the city and UC Berkeley about the school's expansion plans.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dow Slides On New COVID Fears Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties are all back in what would have been "Purple" tier status; GrubHub and DoorDash are suing SF over that 15% fee cap; and four more local counties including Napa have joined in the voluntary mask guidance for indoor spaces.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NYT Says All the Tech Workers Are Coming Back Now A woman was rescued in Oakland after a Tinder date turned kidnapping/assault situation, a COVID outbreak at a Santa Rosa homeless shelter also hit the vaccinated, and the NY Times now has a piece about the tech "exodus" folk who are all coming back to SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Team USA Women's Gymnastics Squad Leaves SFO for Tokyo More from the VTA shooter's notebook seized by border agents, UC Berkeley is paying the city $82.6M to settle lawsuits over construction plans, and Californians can expect another $600 stimulus check.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Roman Court Defends Its Decision In Cop Slaying By Bay Area Men The SF DA's Office has reached a settlement with Angie's List over false advertising claims, the Roman court that convicted two Bay Area teens in a 2019 cop stabbing has justified its verdict, and the Bon Voyage space on Valencia is pivoting to something new.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Install Physical Deterrents for Sideshows Oakland is installing Botts' dots and other physical deterrents to curb sideshow activity, someone's improperly thrown out lithium battery sparked a fire at Recology, and the search intensifies for that missing Berkeley runner.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID Outbreak at Sonoma Homeless Shelter Infects 47 Sonoma County officials said 47 residents at the Sam Jones Hall shelter tested positive for COVID-19, there was a small brush fire by Lake Merritt Friday, and California will still require face masks inside schools — despite the CDC recommending otherwise.
SF News Day Around the Bay: VTA Train Service Coming Back Online This Month VTA light rail service will be back by late July following the shooting-related shutdown, Contra Costa County says the Delta variant is spreading there among the unvaccinated, and The Independent reopens Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Woman Killed By Grizzly Bear at Campsite A 16-year-old boy was shot while on a Muni bus on Treasure Island, a California woman was pulled from her tent and killed by a bear in Montana, July 4th revelers left behind mountains of trash on Tahoe beaches.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Launches COVID Testing Pilot For Arriving International Passengers A 75-year-old woman was knocked down and critically injured by a fleeing shoplifter in the Outer Mission, former homelessness czar Jeff Kositsky is leaving City Hall entirely, and SFO is giving free COVID rapid-testing and variant-testing kits to arriving international passengers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kanye West Dined at Nari, Assistant Lied to Get Him Table The Trump Organization and its CFO have been indicted in a 15-year tax scheme, Kanye West's people apparently told the restaurant Nari that they were from Noma in Copenhagen to get a last-minute table, and that Goop store in Pac Heights is gone for good.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Freeway Slingshot Bandit Sentenced to 15 Years A 54-year-old San Luis Obispo County man has been sentenced in the bizarre string of slingshot-marble attacks on Monterey County roads, candidates for governor are being forced to show tax returns, and over 120 deaths are being attributed to the Northwest heatwave.
SF News Day Around the Bay: New Club Fugazi Show Gets a Name A 17-year-old boy was killed and a 34-year-old was injured in a Monday shooting in the Tenderloin, Newsom has signed the $5.2 billion rent-relief bill into law, and Scoot has lost its permit to operate in SF.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Feinstein's Tahoe Estate Hits Market for $41M The victim in that shark attack near Half Moon Bay has shared his whole story, DA Chesa Boudin is recusing himself in a weird case about a theft of school board recall petitions, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband have listed their Tahoe compound for $41 million.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Almost Half of SF Businesses Still Closed? A new city report finds that 45% of SF small businesses remain closed, a group representing Black city employees objects to SF's mandate that they all be vaccinated, and the death toll at the Miami condo collapse site is at 4 but expected to rise dramatically.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homelessness Dept. Wants $15M So It Can Keep Spending $60K Per Tent Per Year A 21-year-old woman visiting SF says she was shot through her car door in the Mission on Sunday, SF's Dept. of Homelessness still wants to spend too much on those tents, and one of those swanky Light House condos on Dolores Park is back on the market.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Will Require All City Employees to Get Vaccinated SF will make all city workers get vaccines once the FDA gives full approval to one, the Oakland City Council may be diverting $17M of the police budget, and Gavin Newsom may have overstated how many fire breaks have been cleared around the state — by a lot.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi to Set Up Select Committee to Investigate Jan. 6 Pelosi may be baiting Senate Republicans, a frightening flip-over crash on the Bay Bridge was caused by a distracted father, and a 20-year-old man is fighting for his life after a shooting in the Bayview on Monday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Shake Shack Arrives In Downtown SF Next Week SF Mayor London Breed has vetoed that Free Muni pilot program as promised, the city is opening more branch libraries this week, and the state is getting set to pay for total rent forgiveness for all low-income renters who struggled during the pandemic.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Rents Are Now Up a Solid 4% Over Last Month The average asking rent for an apartment in San Francisco has risen an even 4% since May, an early Friday morning car crash demolished the parklets at Aquitaine and The Boombox, and as it turns out: Baltimore was the only U.S. city to see a larger exodus than SF last year.
SF News Day Around the Bay: More Useless Bickering In Sacramento About High-Speed Rail Some SF restaurants are keeping masks on employees (but not all), California lawmakers are squabbling over high-speed rail funding again, and Chez Panisse announced that it isn't reopening until October.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former SF City Hall HR Employee Gets Forgery Charge An SF firefighter died after fighting a fire at SFO last week, a former City Hall employee is facing felony forgery charges, and BART riders are not looking forward to the trains becoming crowded again.
