SF News Day Around the Bay: Dolan Fire Grows to Almost 100,000 Acres as Orange Skies Continue Blanketing Bay Area The once slow-growing Dolan Fire in Monterey County is now nearly 100,000 acres, Ritual Coffee Roasters shuttered its Castro location over the long weekend, and the orange skies that continue coloring the Bay Area are likely to stick around until at least Friday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Air Quality Was Actually Pretty Good Today Despite Yellow Sky The yellow sky is just smoke way above us (and the air is actually okay), SF crossed the 10,000 mark for COVID cases, and Santa Clara is entering the "red" tier.
SF News Day Around the Bay: IKEA Might Be Coming to Downtown SF IKEA has bought the 6x6 mall on mid-Market, Elizabeth Holmes is making a bunch of noise in her court case, and Newsom just relaxed some of the independent contractor restrictions from AB5.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dozens of Bay Area Schools Granted Waivers to Reopen There were two separate homicides in Vallejo last night, a youth theater teacher in Los Gatos was arrested for inappropriate Zoom behavior, and salon owners and others "rallied" outside Pelosi's SF home today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CDC Tells States To Be Ready For Pre-Election Vaccine That May Happen Post-Election Trump is clearly trying to use the CDC to legitimize his claims that a COVID vaccine will be ready very soon, California is adjusting its ratings for counties that are doing extra testing, and a San Leandro police officer has been charged with manslaughter for Walmart shooting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fox Catches Pelosi In a Hair Salon Without a Mask The Muni Metro is now likely staying closed through the end of the year, Fox News got footage of Nancy Pelosi in a Cow Hollow hair salon without a mask, and bears are getting really brazen in Tahoe.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Major Fires Around Bay Area to Be Contained By Sept. 8 The SFPD has arrested a 33-year-old man in connection with a burglary and attempted sexual assault of a juvenile, Sonoma County is reopening hair salons, and Cal Fire says the LNU and CZU fire complexes may be contained by early next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Big Basin Redwoods State Park's Tallest Trees Still 'Generally Healthy' A San Jose stabbing victim has died of his wounds (becoming the city’s 25th homicide this year), don’t expect smoke-free skies in SF anytime soon, and two of Big Basin Redwoods State Park’s tallest trees appear to have survived the CZU Lightning fire — and "remain generally healthy."
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mayor Balks at Supes' Plan to Use Reserve Funds for City Worker Raises Accused Oakland and Santa Cruz shooter Steven Carrillo pleaded not guilty in the Santa Cruz shooting, a San Leandro classroom got Zoom-bombed, and the SF mayor and Board of Supervisors are in a budget battle.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Santa Clara Health Director Blasts CDC Over Testing Advice The weather will be warming up again this weekend, NBA Playoff games are postponed over Wisconsin protests, and Dr. Fauci says the CDC met with the Trump administration about new testing rules while he was in surgery.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Squaw Valley To Drop Its Racist Name Squaw Valley will officially be dropping the name its had for 71 years after realizing it's offensive, Folsom Street is getting weekly Sunday street closures through October, and Wise Sons is merging with Oakland's Beauty's Bagels.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hundreds of Parks Closed Due to Fires The remains of a woman missing in a 2005 Placer County murder have been found, Northern California is short on firefighting personnel, and a sideshow broke out in the Mission late Saturday/early Sunday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Francisco To Stay on California's Coronavirus Watch List "Dome dining" is back in San Francisco at Hashiri after changes were made to its controversial “igloos,” the SCU Lightning Complex fire is now ten times larger than the size of Manhattan, and… alas: San Francisco will stay on the state’s COVID-19 watch list, after all.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Zuckerberg Testifies Remotely In FTC Antitrust Probe Newsom's DNC appearance has been put on hold due to the wildfires, Uber's former chief of security has been charged for allegedly covering up a 2016 hack, and Zuckerberg was testifying before the FTC this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wildfires + Heatwave + Pandemic... You've Got To Be Joking Struggling businesses now have to lure people outside in the smoke, winds may pick up and make fires worse this evening, and on the plus side Barack Obama is set to tear Donald a new one in his DNC speech this evening.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Mateo County Wildfire Prompts Evacuations Gov. Newsom declared a statewide emergency over the current spate of wildfires and the heatwave, a hurricane in the Pacific is set to possibly send us more thunderstorms this weekend, and SF General needs help identifying an unconscious woman.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hennessey Fire Near St. Helena Grows to 750 Acres Five more CA counties got added to the watch list today, PG&E is warning of random rolling blackouts tonight and tomorrow, and the lightning-caused fire in St. Helena has been named the Hennessey Fire, and it is still growing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 'Monster In the Mission' Project Beset With New Lawsuit A coalition of boutique gyms has filed more papers against the city, SF isn't likely to be scorched quite as hot as the rest of the Bay Area this weekend, and Trump is planning events to counter the Democratic convention.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alcatraz Reopens Monday COVID fears are brewing around potentially crowded beaches during this weekend's heatwave, Stanford publishes controversial new sex assault allegation rules, and Alcatraz reopens for outdoor tours only next week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Airbnb Sues Guest Over Unsanctioned Party Where Three Were Shot Five new liquor licenses are for sale for cheap in SF, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf is pissed about Lake Merritt vendors and gatherings, and next year's Game Developers Conference is scheduled to happen in person at the Moscone Center in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Homicides Investigated In Sunnydale and Sunset Everyone's talking about Kamala, UCSF police are seeking a suspect in an altercation that turned into a possible homicide this morning, and SF is losing lots of hot dog stands.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Tests Two-Drug COVID Therapy They Hope Will Be 'Golden Ticket' Santa Clara County just added 740 COVID cases likely as a result of the state backlog, two Stanislaus County residents were arrested for an April murder in SF, and UCSF hopes that remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory interferon will be the "golden ticket" in treating COVID patients.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Sonoma County Approves Fines For Mask Scofflaws Community organizations are scrambling to figure out where 18,000 newly released inmates might live, Uber lost $1.8 billion last quarter, and Laney College is featured on Netflix's 'Last Chance U.'
SF News Day Around the Bay: Meth Lab Busted at City-Leased Motel For Homeless A pair of homeless people in a city-leased motel room in SoMa were busted for allegedly cooking meth there, state prisons are set to grant early release to over 17,000 inmates, and WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann just listed his Marin County home for $27.5M.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lots of Californians Have Been Arming Themselves Four blocks of Jones Street in the Tenderloin are getting made into pedestrian-friendly space, a lot of UC Berkeley students are withdrawing for the semester, and the Apple Fire in SoCal has grown to 41 square miles.
