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.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Records First Teen Death From COVID-19 A Larkspur man says he was assaulted for telling a jogger to wear a mask, a San Jose police officer is accused of laundering $18 million, and employees across California are being asked to sign COVID liability waivers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SFPD Officer Stabbed In Face While Making Arrest COVID-19 clusters have been reported at four South Bay Costcos, a Berkeley church was the target of an attempted arson after putting up a BLM banner, and Vinyl is moving from Divisadero to the Haight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Outpaces Nation, Adds 1260 New Cases The laptops Jack Dorsey paid for are heading for 25,000 Oakland students, San Mateo County has landed on the state's watch list, and Contra Costa County just added 410 new COVID cases in one day.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Asked For Help In Case Of Gilroy Man Set on Fire SF supervisors just approved an "overpaid CEO tax" for the Nov. ballot, Oracle Park and the Chase Center are laying off thousands of food-service workers, and the public is being asked for help in the case of a Gilroy man found on fire by Highway 101 last weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CA Legislators May Extend $600 Unemployment Supplement California legislators plan to fill in the gap if Senate Republicans try to decrease weekly supplemental unemployment benefits, vandals caused $200K in damages in Oakland, and former 49er Dana Stubblefield has been found guilty in a 2015 rape case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Lake Merritt Parties Blamed For COVID Spread Nancy Pelosi slammed Republicans today for pushing back on extended jobless aid, the UC Davis researcher from China accused of visa fraud has been arrested after hiding out in the consulate, and Oakland parties are being blamed for COVID spread.
SF News Day Around the Bay: When Will SF Get Off the State's Watch List? A man stabbed in SoMa on Wednesday suffered life-threatening injuries, Berkeley residents are working on a "Reparations Now" street mural, and the Ferry Building is back open.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Ferry Building Closed Under Mall Closure Orders The SFPD released video from a July 11 Bayview shooting, a protest against Trump's use of federal troops against protesters is planned for Saturday in Oakland, and SF's Ferry Building — at least the interior part — is now closed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Nine Wildfires Are Burning Around California A new CDC study suggests actual coronavirus cases are 10 to 20 times higher than reported, California cases are set to eclipse New York's within days, and the reopening of Souvla led to hours-long lines to pick up food.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bay Area Adds Over 1,100 New COVID-19 Cases United Airlines says it may lay off half its staff at its SFO hub, a 21-year-old SF man has been arrested for a fatal hit-and-run on Sunday, and the Bay Area saw over 1,100 new COVID cases added today.