SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oracle Park Concession Workers Threaten Strike Over COVID Hazard Pay The Caldor Fire is now 29% contained and there is hope of keeping it away from Lake Tahoe, SF police made an arrest in an Aug. 17 murder on Larkin Street, and Oracle Park concession workers may strike over COVID hazard pay.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Air Quality Advisory Hits the Bay The southeastern front of the Dixie Fire is now threatening the Highway 395 corridor, smoke from the Caldor Fire may impact the Bay Area's air quality again, and flash flooding in New York and New Jersey led to at least 14 deaths last night.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Caldor Fire Moves Closer to Heavenly The Caldor Fire grew to over 200,000 acres last night and is scorching the edges of South Lake Tahoe, Santa Clara County supervisors took a vote of no confidence in the sheriff, and jury selection continues in Elizabeth Holmes's trial.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Unsanctioned Burning Man Has First Serious Accident A man was injured in a roll-over dune buggy incident at the "renegade" Burning Man that began Sunday, some evacuation warnings and orders have been lifted in the Dixie Fire, and demand for monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID are surging in the Bay Area.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Firefighters Head to Louisiana to Help With Hurricane Recovery, Rescue South Lake Tahoe remains under an evacuation warning after the Caldor Fire "let loose" on Sunday, two surfers and a bystander saved a drowning man at Ocean Beach, and an elite team of urban rescue firefighters just left Oakland to aid in the Louisiana hurricane recovery effort.
SF News Sunday Links: South Lake Tahoe Looks Lifeless Amid Evacuation Warning Hurricane Ida has made landfall off the coast of Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, a deadly car crash Friday killed one Livermore high schooler and left another five injured, and pictures arrive of a desolate South Lake Tahoe following a new evacuation warning.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Air Showing 'Unhealthy' Levels of Pollutants There's an ongoing donation drive for Afghan refugees in the East Bay, Contra Costa County employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 4 (or face possible termination), and the air around the Bay Area continues hazing with dangerous levels of wildfire smoke pollutants.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Smoke Plume Arrives Over Bay Area Wildfire smoke is making for hazy skies in the Bay Area, Scott Wiener has pulled his decriminalize-psychedelics bill, and President Biden is vowing retribution for the ISIS attack on Kabul's airport that now has a death toll of over 180.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Boy Killed In East Bay Train Collision Two new NorCal wildfires prompted evacuations on Wednesday, Caitlyn Jenner toured the Tenderloin with news cameras, and VTA light-rail service is expected to return this weekend for the first time since the late-May shooting in San Jose.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Convention Schedule Stymied By Delta Variant A fugitive aboard a California Zephyr train was fatally shot by Amtrak police in Chicago, Tahoe area residents are fleeing to the Bay Area to breathe, and the convention schedule at the Moscone Center is in limbo due to the Delta variant.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: No Arrests Made In Sunday Sideshows In SF The fast-moving Caldor Fire is "knocking on the door" of the Tahoe basin, the SFPD made no arrests after two sideshows in San Francisco on Sunday, and the governor of Hawaii is telling tourists to stay away as COVID cases surge.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Caldor Fire Grows to 104,000 Acres An air quality advisory has been issued for the Bay Area Monday though smoke may stay aloft, the Caldor Fire continues growing near South Lake Tahoe, and the FDA has given full approval to the Pfizer vaccine.
SF News Sunday Links: Autopsy of NorCal Family That Died Hiking in Sierra National Forest Brings Up Nothing No one still knows exactly how a local family of three (and their dog) died while hiking in the Sierra National Park, Barack Obama Boulevard debuted in San Jose Saturday, and hundreds of immunocompromised people have received a supplemental COVID-19 vaccine dose in Marin.
SF News Saturday Links: California's Prop 22 Deemed Unconstitutional by Superior Court Judge Oakland Symphony Director Michael Morgan has died at 63 years old, hundreds of animals have been displaced by the Cache Fire, and CA's controversial gig-economy bill—which allowed companies like Lyft and Uber to keep workers as independent contractors—has been ruled unconstitutional.
SF News Friday Morning Headlines: Death of NorCal Family in Sierra National Forest Possibly Linked to Toxic Algae Bloom A good Samaritan thwarted an attack against an elderly man in Chinatown Wednesday, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District still shows "unhealthy" levels of air pollutants around the region, and toxic algae blooms might’ve contributed to the deaths of a local family earlier this week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Richmond District's Baller Fried Rice Is Now $500 Lily's "douchebag fried rice" is now going to be $500 and served two days a week for charity, PG&E says it's turning everyone's power back on today, and YouTuber recall candidate Kevin Paffrath wants in on a debate with three Republican candidates.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Fremont Woman In Bikini Confesses to Starting Forest Fire A former San Francisco couple was found dead along with their child and dog in the Sierra National Forest, Nancy Pelosi talks about the recall and Afghanistan, and a bikini-clad woman "covered in scratches" confessed to lighting a forest fire near Tahoe.
SF News Red Flag Warning Issued For Parts of North and East Bay With Winds Expected As strong, gusty winds arrive, the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning for parts of the Bay Area beginning at 11 p.m. Tuesday and extending through 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: FDA Expected to Recommend Boosters at 8 Months The FDA is expected to announce this week that Americans should get a booster vaccine dose 8 months after their second dose, there's some weird and threatening union drama among Golden Gate Transit bus drivers, and the Caldor Fire exploded in size overnight.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Afghan Community Devastated By Taliban Takeover The Bay Area's large Afghan community is watching news from Kabul in horror, evacuations were ordered in the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, and the mayor of San Jose is calling for the sheriff to resign.
SF News Sunday Links: Bell Fire Burns Near Mendocino The death toll of the Haitian earthquake is now north of 700, at least 10 inmates and 12 staff members recently tested positive for COVID-19 at the Santa Rita Jail, and the Bell Fire began sometime Saturday near Mendocino (but it’s already 50% contained).
SF News Saturday Links: No Children in San Francisco Are Currently Hospitalized With COVID-19 San Francisco (at the moment) has not a single child hospitalized with COVID-19, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Haiti earlier today, and the Dixie Fire had another night of explosive growth — now measuring more than 540,000 acres in size.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Vaccinated Person Dies From COVID In Marin Marin County recorded its first COVID death in a vaccinated person who was 75, the Oakland hills hit-and-run suspect has been charged with attempted murder, and a father and son face jail time for using fake vaccination cards to vacation in Hawaii.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF's Delta Surge Is Worse Than New York's Some people in Novato are protesting mask and vaccine mandates, SF's Delta variant surge is worse than New York's and Chicago's, and Google has launched a tool to show employees how much of a salary cut they will take if they work from home permanently.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Over 1 Million People Have Already Gotten Booster Shots A 35-year-old man was shot in Oakland while running from robbers, a Sonoma State lecturer has been arrested for a series of arson fires near the Dixie Fire, and the CDC says 1.1 million people have already gotten unauthorized booster shots of vaccines.
