SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Airlines Continue Canceling Flights Due to COVID The Tahoe area continues to be mostly impassable due to snow, a power outage early this morning halted BART service to SFO, and airlines continue to cancel hundreds of flights per day due to COVID-related staffing shortages.
SF News Sunday Links: Santa Cruz Had White Christmas As Temperatures Plunged Hundreds of flights either leaving from or coming into the United States have already been canceled Sunday, the China Beach bathhouse is getting a $20M renovation, and a mixture of freezing temperatures and steady precipitation made for a snowy Christmas night in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
SF News Christmas Day Stocking Stuffer: More Rain Expected Throughout Holiday Weekend Rain is forecasted to keep pouring down today and into early next week, a few Bay Area holiday pop-up bars will open later today, and… merry Christmas!
SF News Christmas Eve Constitutional: Bay Area Hospitals Prep For Omicron Surge I-680 was shut down last night due to a freeway shooting, a teacher's union in the East Bay threatens to strike, and Bay Area hospitals say they are prepared for a looming Omicron surge — even though hospitalizations are likely to be fewer than last year.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Big Rig Falls Off East Bay Overpass A big rig plunged off an overpass onto a road below in Lafayette this morning, a Jewish house of worship was possibly torched in San Jose, and Oakland Airport was already very busy first thing this morning.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Verdict In Holmes Trial Likely Coming Before Christmas The rain we're getting is from a "decaying cyclone" over the Pacific, the jury in the Elizabeth Holmes trial could return a verdict Thursday, and the last Michael Vick dog-fight ring dog has died in Oakland.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: San Jose Mall Shooting Leads to Chaos, Looting A shooting at San Jose's Oakridge Mall led to chaos Monday but no victim has been located, Oakland police are forming a new policing district to combat violence, and the NHL is pausing the season from Wednesday to Sunday due to COVID.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Showing No Signs of Omicron Slowdown A woman was fatally shot Sunday at an East Oakland homeless encampment, Omicron is not deterring holiday travelers through SFO, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker both have COVID.
SF News Sunday Links: CHP Records Three Deadly Accidents on Bay Area Freeways San Jose launched two "warming centers" for people experiencing homelessness, one of San Mateo's busiest vaccination sites will close until January, and CHP is investigating three fatal car crashes that happened on various Bay Area freeways early Sunday.
SF News Saturday Links: Dottie’s True Blue Café Permanently Closes After 30 Years in San Francisco A roller skating-themed mural debuted at Golden Gate Park, Union Square endures as the holiday season continues, and Dottie’s True Blue Café has closed for good after more than 30 years in business.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Elizabeth Holmes Case Goes to Jury The SF school board officially extended lottery-based admissions at Lowell High, Santa Clara County's health officer is warning of a "deluge" of Omicron cases, and the Elizabeth Holmes case gets handed to the jury today.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Major Healthcare Conference In SF Canceled Closing arguments begin today in the Elizabeth Holmes trial, a brazen mugging happened Wednesday afternoon in Pacific Heights, and JP Morgan just canceled an in-person healthcare conference in SF in January.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Highway 1 Closed Due to Big Sur Rockslides The SF School Board passed a balanced budget on Tuesday avoiding a state takeover, alleged retail thieves were busted in Vallejo, and a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur remains closed to traffic after multiple rockslides.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Some Spots In Sierra Getting Eight Feet of Snow Tahoe got inundated with a thick dumping of snow on Monday and it is still snowing, a 14-year-old in Fairfield was arrested for threats to a high school, and the oldest living person in California resides in the East Bay.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Heaviest Rain Arrives Heavy rain and landslide potential have shut down a 40-mile stretch of Highway 1, today is the deadline for all BART employees to be vaccinated, and the 49ers eked out a messy win.
SF News Saturday Links: Three-Alarm Fire at Bayview Warehouse Is Now Contained There was yet another smash-and-grab car robbery recorded in SF, the Oakland Ballet Company will bring ‘The Nutcracker’ back to the stage next weekend, and a large fire broke out at 335 Barneveld at Newcomb avenues Saturday morning — but it's now contained.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Santa Clara County Finds First Omicron Case Santa Clara County has recorded its first case of the Omicron variant, an Oakland teen allegedly stabbed his father to death, and Millennium Tower has tilted another quarter inch.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Rain Storm Headed Here Late Saturday The LAPD is now facing a racist texting scandal, Lyft is telling its workers they can stay remote through all of 2022, and we are in for a decent amount of rain late Saturday night into Sunday.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Pfizer Booster Protects Against Omicron The state has again warned the SF school board that it's in danger of a takeover, Marin's COVID spike is not due to Omicron, and a swarm of offshore earthquakes is rattling northern Oregon.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Prolific Target Shoplifter Arrested Again After Being Freed By Judge Aziza Graves, the woman arrested on 128 counts of stealing from the Stonestown Target, was arrested again for theft; Contra Costa County has a lot of complaints about restaurants not checking vaccines; the drive-thru Dickens Fair was a mess over the weekend.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Early Reports Suggest Omicron Causes Less Severe Illness The owners of Hilda and Jesse in North Beach have apologized for turning away SFPD officers, a Black couple is suing a Marin appraisal firm, and Omicron might cause less severe illness (on average) than Delta.
SF News Sunday Links: Holiday Shopping Slowly Returns to Union Square Holiday shopping busied at Union Square over the weekend, many NorCal Planned Parenthood locations are preparing for an influx of out-of-state abortions, and new research shows that the Omicron variant was likely in the U.S. before it was first recorded.
SF News Saturday Links: 5 Cases of Omicron Variant Recorded in Alameda County Nearly a foot of snow is expected in parts of Hawaii over the weekend, “pudgy” cookies are now a thing in Cupertino, and five cases of the Omicron variant have been reported in Alameda County — each case described as "mildly symptomatic."
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Carlos Santana Recovering From Surprise Heart Surgery Carlos Santana had an "unscheduled heart procedure" over the weekend, a Palo Alto couple has pleaded guilty in the college admissions scandal, and unemployment claims in CA are near pre-pandemic levels.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Tolls Go Up to $7 On 7 Bay Area Bridges Next Month Tolls on the Bay Bridge and six other bridges go up $1 on Jan. 1, the Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in a pivotal abortion case today, and high demand for boosters is creating trouble for some local pharmacies.
