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.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Grass Fire on Twin Peaks Got Very Smoky A two-acre grass fire that seems likely caused by illegal fireworks smoked up much of Twin Peaks Monday evening, the official fireworks show at the piers was predictably fogged in, and a three-year-old boy was shot and wounded sitting in a car in East Oakland Monday night.
SF News Fourth of July Rundown: SoMa Sushi Joint Quietly Shutters After Failed Lease Negotiations The team behind SF's firework show is putting together the last details this afternoon, a man was arrested on Friday for taking a sledgehammer to several cars in SF, and Kaisen Sushi at 71 5th Street suddenly closed for good after five years of serving fresh and cheap rolls.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco Broke a Daily Rain Record Yesterday The Castro will have a new specialty grocery shop soon, an Oakland man was charged with dealing fentanyl in the Tenderloin, and less than a tenth of an inch of rain was recorded in downtown SF Saturday — but it was still enough to beat the record for that day.
SF news Saturday Links: SF Couple Fined Over $1.5K for Parking in Their Own Driveway SoMa's newest pizza joint is also serving up great Tiki drinks, Oakland will again open cooling and clean air sites this summer, and a San Francisco couple that's been parking in their driveway for almost four decades was recently fined over $1.5K by the City for doing so.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Missing SF Man Found Dead In Desolation Wilderness 32-year-old Jia Huang of San Francisco was found dead of an apparent drowning in Lake Aloha, a vigil was held in Oakland for the bystander killed in a crash early Sunday, and Gary Payton II may be headed to the Trailblazers.