SF News Father's Day Links: Power Restored to 50,000 East Bay Residents After Saturday Outage Around 50,000 residents in Fremont and Union City saw their lights go out Saturday, SF art galleries are experiencing a boom in popularity, and yesterday’s one-alarm apartment building fire has now displaced at least 60 people.
SF News Saturday Links: 20 People Rescued From One-Alarm Tenderloin Fire Twenty people were rescued (fifteen of them injured) in an early Saturday morning apartment fire at 421 Leavenworth Street, CA's Flex Alert has been lifted, and Biden's 13-year-old German Shepherd, Champ, has passed away.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Newsom Says He Doesn't Want Tourists Choosing Florida A gas leak prompted a small crisis in the Inner Richmond Thursday evening, the Chronicle actually reported on Peskin's alcoholic behavior over a decade ago, and Cal/OSHA says vaccinated workers can take off their masks after all.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: It's Gonna Be a Hot One Try to conserve power today and tonight during this heatwave, local infectious disease experts talk about where they'll still wear a mask, and the Supreme Court has upheld the Affordable Care Act for the third time.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Farms Get Cut Off From State Water Supply This week's heatwave is cause for wildfire concern in the North Bay, Californians may be asked to conserve power over the next two days, and Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody looks back on the last fifteen months.
SF News Big Reopening Day Headlines: Electronic Vaccine Cards Coming for CA Residents Newsom says "It's a good day," the University of California says it will require everyone to be vaccinated to return to campus after all, and California will be creating electronic vaccination cards after all but not calling them "passports."
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Stolen Yorkie Found! A couple visiting SF for their anniversary was reunited with their stolen Yorkshire terrier, a new survey finds California teachers exhausted from distance learning, and Colma is having a party tomorrow to celebrate everything reopening.
SF News Sunday Links: Triple-Digit Temperatures to Hit Parts of Bay Area by Wednesday A three-alarm fire engulfed a West Oakland recycling plant Saturday, temperatures are expected to climb as high as 104 degrees in some inland parts of the Bay Area by mid-week, and a 12-year-old girl was arrested in relation to four separate fires in Berkeley Hills Friday.
SF News Saturday Links: 3 Fires Broke Out in Berkeley Hills; SF BART Reopens All Entrances Closed During Pandemic Three separate fires erupted in Berkeley Hills, thirteen people were injured during a mass shooting in Austin, Texas — mind you: the state just passed its permitless gun-carrying bill — and all SF BART entrances closed during the pandemic have reopened.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Gets Its High-Speed Rail Funds Back The State of California has clawed back almost $1B in high-speed rail funding that was canceled under Trump, many Californians don't want to take their masks off next week, and the Embarcadero COVID testing site is closing.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Car Burglary Suspect Fires Shot at Witness Witnesses confronting alleged car burglars near the Embarcadero had a gun fired at them on Wednesday night, a hit-and-run crash flipped a car on Sutter Street, and mask rules for the unvaccinated are largely going to be on an honor system after next week unless businesses do their own carding.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Cal/OSHA May Change Its Mind About Masks at Work At the urging of the state health officer Cal/OSHA may reconsider its guidance about masks in the workplace, an SF mother describes a robbery at gunpoint in the Mission, and Apple employees are grumbling about having to go into the office three days a week.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Woman Arrested for Killing Young Son A 35-year-old San Jose woman has been arrested for allegedly killing her 7-year-old in Las Vegas, a new wildfire broke out in the CZU Lightning Complex burn area, and two more Bay Area counties are likely entering the "Yellow" tier in the final week of colored tiers.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Two Homeless Men Found Dead In Berkeley Two homeless men were found deceased in Berkeley's Civic Center Park on Sunday, the fight goes on over "anchor-outs" in Richardson Bay, and Alameda County's COVID death toll recently dropped dramatically and the explanation is odd.
SF News Sunday Links: San Francisco's City Hall Will Reopen to the Public Tomorrow City Hall will open up to the public Monday, SF police are looking for a female FedEx employee caught on camera stealing packages, and Meghan Markle and Prince Harry welcome into the world their new baby girl, Lilibet Diana.
SF News Saturday Links: Today Marks the 40th Anniversary of the First AIDS Cases Reported in the US A federal judge in California on Friday overturned the state’s three-decade-old ban on assault weapons, new ADUs in Oakland might be banned, and the CDC reported the first cases of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome — known more commonly as "AIDS" — 40 years ago to the day.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Vaccinated Napa Woman Dies From COVID The first California vaccine lottery drawing happens today, the Board of Supervisors is holding a hearing about gas line safety, and a San Francisco man recently returned a Bob Dylan record to a library 48 years late.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Cal/OSHA to Keep Mask Requirements for Many Workers State regulators are likely keeping mask rules in place for workers after June 15, Google has reassigned a diversity figure for antisemitic comments, and a dump truck driver did an apparent dump-and-run following a messy accident in Fremont.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Labor Unions Support Newsom in Recall A protest over a police shooting shut down a freeway in San Jose Tuesday night, California labor unions are launching a campaign to help the Newsom recall to fail, and Alameda residents want something done about all the sideshow activity at the former Naval Air Station.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Fires Erupt In CZU Burn Area In Santa Cruz County The VTA has indefinitely suspended light-rail service following last week's shooting, San Jose police shot and killed a suspect during a follow-up investigation Monday night, and two small fires broke out in the CZU Lightning Complex burn scar on Monday.
SF News Memorial Day Links: Asian SFPD Officer Attacked In Chinatown An Asian female SFPD officer was assaulted in a possible hate crime, a fire broke out at an Oakland homeless encampment under 880, and a solo kayaker set out from SF Bay today on a journey to Hawaii.
SF News Sunday Links: Mendocino Cafe Asks Any Customer Wearing Face Mask to Pay $5 Fee Almost the entire Bay Area is now under the "exceptional" drought category, Lake Tahoe is seeing a massive influx of tourists this weekend, and Fiddleheads Café in Mendocino — which has been a noted critic of pandemic face mask mandates — is now charging patrons wearing a face covering an extra $5.
SF News Saturday Links: Two-Alarm Fire Damages Mission District Apartment Building, Displaces 13 Residents San Francisco merchants and hotels are gearing up for its first wave of tourism since the pandemic, Abanico Coffee Roasters opened in the Mission District, and a large residential blaze broke out at 3906 Mission Street Friday evening — forcing over a dozen people to evacuate their homes.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Two More Guilty Pleas In Corruption Probe Two Oakland businessmen pleaded guilty to bribing Mohammed Nuru, the daughter of Berkeley-based 'Moneyball' author Michael Lewis and Tabitha Soren died in a Tahoe car crash, and the Chevron refinery in Richmond was conducting flaring last night.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Possible Motive In San Jose Shooting Takes Shape A ninth victim in the San Jose shooting has died, the shooter's ex-wife and a coworker provide insight into a possible motive, and a large development project begins construction today on the Potrero waterfront.