SF News Sunday Links: Person Injured by Caltrain in Santa Clara, Taken to Local Hospital A person was injured after being struck by a Caltrain train in Santa Clara Saturday afternoon, one of the most popular “Little Miss” meme accounts is based in SF, and President Joe Biden has tested positive for COVID-19 — again.
SF News Saturday Links: Happy Dore Alley Weekend, Kinksters! Noe Valley's shuttered Mahila eatery will be reimagined as Azalina's in the TL this fall, CA's inflation relief checks are expected to start hitting bank accounts in October, and it’s officially Up Your Alley street fair weekend — though anxieties around monkeypox hover.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Pittsburg Man Arrested For Market Street Crash, Road Rage Shooting A 28-year-old Pittsburg man and a 30-year-old Vallejo woman were arrested following Wednesday's crash in downtown SF, the White House is promising BA.5 boosters by fall, and San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo has COVID again.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Four People Killed In Major North Bay Crash Four people were killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Rio Vista Wednesday night, Marin County authorities have made an arrest in last weekend's Marin City homicide, and a South San Francisco truck driver has been ID'd as responsible for crashing into the Gilman Street overpass in Berkeley last week.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Board Considers Renewing Mask Mandate BART's board of directors will vote Thursday on whether to renew the mask mandate on trains, a reward has gone up to $20K for information about the fatal shooting of an Oakland rideshare driver, and the Oak Fire is now 32% contained.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Halts Encampment Clearing In Santa Rosa A planned sweep of a longstanding encampment on Santa Rosa's Joe Rodota Trail was halted by a judge, Stanford researchers are looking for monkeypox in wastewater, and Richmond residents were upset by an incessant "bass beat" Saturday night.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF NAACP Now Calling for Ann Hsu's Resignation The SF branch of the NAACP voted 105-0 to call for the resignation of new school board member Ann Hsu, a triple shooting in Marin City on Sunday claimed one life, and a man is in serious condition after a 15-foot fall in SF's Japantown.
SF News Sunday Links: Don't Forget About Those SF Marathon-Related Street Closures Today The Oak Fire is now over 14,000 acres in size, here's another reminder that the SF marathon route will cause some streets to close until 3 p.m. today, and speaking of the footrace: its first group of finishers completed the race at dizzying paces.
SF News Saturday Links: Oak Fire Smoke Expected to Stay Away From Bay Area (for Now) The Oak Fire has now grown to over 6,500 acres in size — its smoke expected to still stay away from the Bay Area today — President Biden is likely stricken with the BA.5 omicron subvariant, and the WHO has declared the spread of monkeypox a global health emergency.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: The San Francisco Marathon Brings Street Closures Sunday There's a long list of street closures for the San Francisco Marathon on Sunday, the Shultz penthouses in Russian Hill just set a real estate record, and BART was having more major delays today.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Port of Oakland Trucker Protest Continues A 109-unit condo building is sitting empty at the foot of Oak Street and buyers want to know why, a trucker protest at the Port of Oakland continues impacting supply chains, and President Joe Biden has COVID.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Monkeypox Cases Hit 141; Long Line Greets Reopened Vaccine Clinic SF's confirmed monkeypox cases now number 141, a long line started forming well before 8 a.m. today for the latest batch of vaccines at SF General, and SF school board member Ann Hsu is facing backlash for some racist comments about Black and brown students.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Service Being Impacted By Fires Vegetation fires in the East Bay were impacting service again Tuesday morning on BART, Laguna Honda Hospital continues to have to relocate 600 patients temporarily, and Apple has frozen hiring in several departments due to economic worries.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: BART Mask Mandate Expires Today BART's mask mandate expires today, a small plane crash in Napa killed two onboard and caused a vegetation fire Sunday, and Elon Musk is looking to delay his Twitter trial until February.
SF News Sunday Links: Two Injured in Shooting in San Francisco's Mid-Market Neighborhood One person was killed in a bowling alley shooting in Livermore Saturday, you'll no longer have to wear a mask when riding BART starting tomorrow, and a shooting on 6th Street Saturday left two people with gunshot wounds.
SF News Saturday Links: Well-Known Nonprofit Leader Attacked Outside Community Center in SF A UCSF doctor has said this "could be our second worst surge in terms of numbers of cases,” the Washburn Fire has now burned 4,822 acres, and the executive director of SF's Ella Hill Hutch Community Center was attacked outside the building Friday afternoon.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: 100-Acre Benicia Fire Contained Overnight A vegetation fire that broke out Wednesday evening in Benicia grew to 100 acres before being contained, Twitter saw a brief outage this morning, and experts are saying the BA.5 wave could get much bigger.
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Vows Crackdown on Tenderloin Drug Sales 229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Santa Clara ER Shut Down Briefly By Threatening Person The emergency room at the Kaiser hospital in Santa Clara was the scene of a tense situation this morning, containment of the Washburn Fire has gone down slightly, and the White House has reaffirmed legal protection for emergency abortions.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Doctor Proposes Floating Abortion Clinic In Gulf of Mexico A UCSF doctor is proposing a floating abortion clinic in the Gulf of Mexico to skirt state bans, California is anticipating a surge of abortion patients, and a third person in two weeks has drowned in Lake Berryessa.
SF News Sunday Links: 90% of Armsby Fire Contained; Fire Crews Battling Pittsburg Vegetation Fire The six-acre Armsby Fire is now almost completely contained, Contra Costa fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire burning in Pittsburg, and plans to expand Castilleja School — an all-girls school in Palo Alto — have gotten city approval.
SF News Saturday Links: Missing Pittsburg Woman With Dementia Found Newly appointed SF DA Brooke Jenkins's first meeting with staffers was allegedly quite "icy," Sunday Streets is coming to Valencia Street this weekend, and a 72-year-old Pittsburg woman with dementia and diabetes was safely found by local police.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Another Round of King Tides Is On the Way Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated, Breed’s newly appointed DA gave her first press conference, and the King Tides return to Bay Area shores on Monday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Poll Finds Newsom Could Beat Trump Newsom could beat Trump or DeSantis in a general election according to a poll, a 19-year-old severely injured in a Vallejo sideshow is clinging to life, and gas prices in the Bay Area may finally fall back below $6.
SF News Humpday Headlines: A's Howard Terminal Project Gets Another Leg Up The Oakland City Council has voted not to put the A's Howard Terminal stadium project on the November ballot, a San Pablo man drowned while trying to save his son in Lake Berryessa, and Carlos Santana collapsed during a concert last night.