SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brush Fire Near Martinez Prompts Brief Evacuation Scare A Monday evening brush fire in the hills near Martinez prompted an evacuation warning but was quickly contained, it hit 97 degrees in SF on Monday breaking an earlier record, and 18 people died in vehicle crashes statewide over the holiday weekend.
SF News Labor Day Links: Bay Area Heatwave Expected to Stick Around Even Longer Firefighters saved a six-month-old baby after being left in a hot car in Oakland, don't forget that nightly street sweeping and parking meters are still enforced today by SFMTA, and the current Bay Area heatwave is now expected to last until Thursday.
SF News Sunday Links: Here's When It's Going to Be the Hottest During This Bay Area Heatwave Two pedestrians were killed in San Jose Saturday, the Bay Area’s Spare the Air Alert has been extended to at least Sunday night, and this Labor Day weekend’s heat wave will bring its warmest days Monday and Tuesday.
SF news Saturday Links: Spare the Air Alert in Effect for Most of Bay Area Today A 12-year-old girl was shot in Pittsburg during a fit of road rage, UC Berkeley will require face masks for students who opted out of flu shots, and the Bay Area Air District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for smog Saturday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oakland Police Release Photo of Suspects In A's Game Oral Sex Case Why did Oakland police release an image of the faces of the two people who were seen having oral sex at an A's game?; another elderly nursing home resident has died after possibly ingesting something; and the OPD busted an illegal casino.
SF News Thursday Morning What’s Up: Big Heat Wave Day on the Way Another apartment fire has displaced a dozen on Divisadero Street, someone set a bunch of trash cans on fire along the Embarcadero last night, and some of the East Bay may see temperatures tip above 100 degrees today.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Updated Boosters From Pfizer & Moderna Cleared By FDA The FDA has cleared both Pfizer's and Moderna's updated COVID vaccines targeting new variants, a mechanical bridge into the Delta in Solano County is stuck in the "up" position, and asking rents in SF are up 11% since last August.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Monkeypox Case Turns Up at North Bay High School A pedestrian was killed on 101 in Sausalito this morning leading to lane closures, a student at a Rohnert Park high school was found to have monkeypox, and a Walnut Creek man has been charged after alleged hidden camera installations at a Starbucks.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oregon Safeway Shooting Leaves Two Dead, Plus Gunman A shooting left three people dead in Bend, Oregon, a standoff ended peacefully Sunday in Santa Rosa with a man threatening to burn down his house, and the SF Dept. of Public Health may now be quietly giving second monkeypox vaccine doses.
SF News Sunday Links: Moon Festival Brings an Estimated 40,000 Visitors to SF's Chinatown A small earthquake rattled an area near San Jose, there's a Bay Area air quality advisory in effect for Sunday, and small businesses in Chinatown saw a boom in sales Saturday when tens of thousands of visitors attended SF’s Moon Festival.
SF News Saturday Links: SFDPH Will Host Drop-In Monkeypox Vaccine Clinic This Weekend Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is holding a monkeypox vaccine clinic Sunday, new businesses have helped SF’s Ferry Building attract more traffic lately, and the New York Times wants to remind us San Franciscans we shouldn’t apologize for our cool summers.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Moderna Now Suing Pfizer and BioNTech For Copying Vaccine Technology New and updated COVID vaccine boosters are coming in September, Moderna is now suing Pfizer for stealing its mRNA vaccine technology, and protesters continue to fight a plan to cull 100 geese from a flock in Foster City.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Crazy Police Chase Tears Through Western Addition Walkways A police chase tore through several parking lots and pedestrian walkways in the Western Addition yesterday afternoon, a paving patch on a Presidio Heights Slow Street is a hazard to cyclists, and another study has found SF's downtown recovery is the slowest in the country.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Five Arrested In North Bay Beauty Store Heists Five suspects including to teens from San Francisco were arrested following alleged robberies and a pursuit in Petaluma, a VTA driver who threatened "shooting" is being forced to retire, and Biden is forgiving $10K in student loans!
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Vigil Held For Dentist and Mother Killed In Oakland There was a vigil Monday for Dr. Lili Xu, the dentist and mother killed in Oakland's Little Saigon on Sunday; a car explosion in Fremont was said to be caused by a "criminal" who blew himself up accidentally; and the SF police union backs Newsom's veto of safe-consumption sites.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Will Newsom Veto Safe-Consumption Site Bill? Today is the deadline for Gov. Newsom to sign a bill legalizing safe-consumption sites, BART saw delays on Sunday after a person entered the Transbay Tube, and a family of four needed to be rescued in Tahoe National Forest.
SF News Sunday Links: California Releases First Monkeypox Quarantine Guidelines CDPH issued isolation practices for those suffering from a symptomatic monkeypox infection this week, two large fires burned in downtown San Jose Saturday, and First Lady Jill Biden is now negative for COVID-19 after testing positive this past Monday.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Temps to Remain Cool Over the Weekend Until Heating Up Monday Afternoon Grizzly bears in California have been locally extinct for now almost a century, the Castro's decades-old "The Hope For The World Cure" mural was recently restored, and enjoy this two-day spat of mild weather — because temperatures will grow hotter starting Monday.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom's Office Threatens to Withhold Funds From Oakland Over Encampment Issues Two men were wounded in a shooting in Emeryville Friday morning, an Oakland nonprofit's building was damaged by street-racing vehicles crashing into it, and Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a scathing letter to the city of Oakland over the handling of the Wood Street encampment.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Woman Rescued at Fort Funston After Getting Lost A 20-year-old woman called 911 and got an SFFD geo-locating rescue at Fort Funston, an Oakland woman was shot multiple times inside her home, and Chronicle critic Soleil Ho pans Little Saint in Healdsburg.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Lightning Possible Amid Hot and Moist Conditions Today Thunderstorms remain a possibility today around the Bay, Britney Spears's first husband Jason Alexander has been booked on seven-year-old charges in Napa, and Santa Clara County says its COVID surge is finally abating.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Hot Weather Fuels Wildfires Around the Bay This week's heatwave is expected to test California's power grid once again, a 50-acre wildfire was threatening a subdivision in Dublin on Monday, and Apple is now saying employees need to be back in the office three days per week after Labor Day.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Crashes Kill Two In Oakland and Napa A five-car pileup early Monday on I-880 in Oakland led to a hit-and-run fatality, mental health workers are going on strike at Kaiser, and two children were wounded in separate shootings in Oakland.
SF News Sunday Links: Warm Temperatures Expected to Heat Up Bay Area Next Week A fast-casual vegan spot will open tomorrow in Hayes Valley, this year's USA Masters Summer Diving Championship at College of Marin in Novato included a 94-year-old athlete from the East Bay, and many parts of the Bay Area will get uncomfortably hot next week.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Attacks Two Asian Women in SF's Richmond District, Leaves Neighbors 'More Afraid' A French bulldog was stolen from a boy in Oakland, a cohort of East Bay artists has successfully avoided displacement from live-work units, and surveillance footage shot Wednesday shows two Asian women — one of them 65 years old — being brutally assaulted by a man donning a black hoodie.