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.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Oakland School District Moves Ahead With Closures The Rices Fire in Nevada County is being held at 900 acres, the body of a missing Oakland teenager has been found in waters of Alameda, and the Oakland school board voted for a third time to move ahead with closing or consolidating around 10 schools.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Wildfire Near Nevada City Grows to 769 Acres The Rices Fire has been burning since Tuesday in Nevada County and is now threatening over 500 buildings, SF street vendors of often stolen goods remain defiant in the face of a new crackdown, and Nancy Pelosi just received Holy Communion in Rome.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Abortion Rights Amendment Heads to November Ballot A 4.2M earthquake struck this morning in Lake County, one person died in a grass fire Monday in Sonoma County, and more than two-thirds of California lawmakers voted Monday to send a constitutional amendment to the November ballot enshrining abortion rights into state law.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bicyclist Killed On Highway 1 Alameda County has lifted its broad mask mandate once more, a bicyclist was killed on Highway 1 near San Gregorio on Saturday, and the Supreme Court sides again with "religious freedom."
SF News Sunday Links: Stern Grove Headliner Cancels After Touring Party Becomes Stricken With COVID-19 Today's your last day to get free admission into SFMOMA for some "reflection and dialogue,” Liz Phair will be replaced by folk-rocker Ani DiFranco as the main act for today's Stern Grove concert, and… happy SF Pride Parade day (so plan your travels accordingly)!
SF News Saturday Links: San Francisco Lights Up in Celebration of Pride Weekend Various SF structures were glowing in all sorts of colors to honor this weekend's Pride festivities, a growing list of companies will now pay for employees' expenses traveling to states to receive legal abortions, and a stretch of the Pacific Ocean along SF is the coldest it's been in over a decade.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Welp, Roe v. Wade Is Dead Reactions are rolling fast after the conservative-led Supreme Court upended 50 years of precedent with Roe v. Wade, Paul Pelosi has been charged with two counts of DUI, and California was largely spared from wildfire despite 66,000 lightning strikes this week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Issues Big Rulings On Guns, Miranda Rights The Supreme Court struck down a New York gun-control law in a ruling that could affect California, the man accused of stalking Justice Brett Kavanaugh pleaded not guilty, and delays continue on BART's Concord line.