SF News Sunday Links: US Cyber Command Ordered to Remove Russia From Cyber Threat List Russia has been de-prioritized at the US Cyber Command; the new park along Great Highway is opening up on April 12 — help name it; and some background info on the guy who wears the light-up dinosaur costume in Dolores Park.
SF News Saturday Links: Amy Tan's Personal Archives Added To U.C. Berkeley's Bancroft Library Collection ESPN announcer misidentifies Golden Gate Bridge; education park ranger writes heartfelt message after sudden firing; California ranks third in the country to be single.
SF News Baker Beach Dog Mauling Highlights Unusual Loophole: Feds Don’t Do Much About Dog Attacks A November 2023 pit bull attack at Baker Beach has gone pretty much unpunished, as SF Animal Care & Control does not have jurisdiction over the area that is a national park, leaving a dog attack victim flummoxed.
Arts & Entertainment Corgi Con Forced to Leave SF’s Ocean Beach Over 'Regulation Changes,' Moves to Pleasanton Dog gone! The prized annual SF event Corgi Con has been chased off Ocean Beach over some federal regulations, and is rescheduled for September on non-federal land at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.
yosemite Yosemite Closed Due to Serious Snow and Storm Conditions Through Wednesday The storm behind this week’s snow in the Bay Area is moving east into the mountains and causing whiteout snow conditions across Yosemite National Park.
SF News National Park Service Closes Municipal Pier at SF's Aquatic Park Cove Indefinitely Citing its poor state of condition — "[the pier] is incrementally deteriorating" — the National Park Service quietly and abruptly closed SF's "Muni Pier" on October 27... with no plans of reopening it anytime soon.
SF News 100-Year-Old National Park Ranger Betty Reid Soskin Has Retired East Bay icon “Ranger Betty” had the distinction of being the oldest active national park ranger in the U.S., until her retirement Thursday at the ripe, young age of 100.
SF News San Francisco Man Dies of Suspected Heatstroke in Death Valley 60-year-old Lawrence Stanback was found unconscious by park rangers at Death Valley National Park after staff received a report of someone having possibly succumbed to heatstroke; Stanback was pronounced dead on the scene — the temperature outside that day being north of 108 degrees Fahrenheit.
SF News Mayor Ed Lee May 'Send A Bill' To Feds For Saturday Protests #SFPD travels to Alamo Square Park protest in Muni bus, via @FitzTheReporter https://t.co/jT346H03jc pic.twitter.com/goOgtlbyas— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) August 29, 2017 SF Mayor Ed Lee is saying he
SF News Park Service Clarifies That 'Final' Permit Not Yet Issued For Alt-Right Rally A planned rally in Crissy Field by alt-right group Patriot Prayer that is likely to attract extremist and white supremacist elements has sparked plenty of emotion in San Francisco over the last few
SF News Lawmakers Call For Alt-Right Group's Crissy Field Permit To Be Rescinded California lawmakers are calling on the National Park Service to rescind a permit they've issued for a gathering of alt-right figures, conservatives, and likely white nationalists at Crissy Field next weekend. The event,
Arts & Entertainment Yosemite Admission Is Free This Weekend And Next And Waterfalls Are Raging #BridalveilFalls was incredible. 💦 There was so much water coming down that you were getting rained on before you even emerged from the trees to see it! 🌲@yosemitenps #yosemite #yosemitenationalpark #yosemitenp #california #unitedstates #america
SF News Native American Tribe, National Park Service Planning To Reintroduce California Condors To Wild 15 agencies including the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Yurok tribe who for centuries has inhabited the areas surrounding the Klamath River in California signed a deal
SF News Weed May Be Legal In California, But You Can Still Get Busted In Yosemite Or On Ocean Beach You think you can't get busted for smoking or possessing marijuana in California anymore after Prop 64 passed in November? Well, think again. If you're on federal land - which includes all national
SF News National Park Service Places Controversial New Dog Management Rules On Hold The National Park Service will hold off on signing and therefore finalizing new dog management rules for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area that would limit dog-friendly and off-leash areas, the organization announced
SF News Video: Idiot Tourist Runs On Yosemite Cliff Edges 'For The Insta' Millions of people visit Yosemite National Park each year, and as one of this country's great natural wonders the park draws average Joe's and political elites alike. Unfortunately, it also attracts idiots like
SF News Unchecked Sexual Harassment Alleged At Yosemite, Other National Parks When we think of America's great national parks we picture vast mountains, impressive geysers, and deep canyons, and not so much a creepy dude staring through a bathroom window at his female employee
SF News Yosemite Announces Largest Expansion In 70 Years Wetlands, a meadow, rolling hills: Those are among the features encompassed in 400 acres of land donated to Yosemite by a nonprofit conservation group who purchased the land from private owners. The tract,
SF News Entry Fees Waived As National Park Service Turns 100 Have any plans this weekend? How about heading to one of our nation's great national parks? In celebration of the 100-year-anniversary of the National Park Service, CBS 5 reports that all entry fees
SF News In Confusing Bid To Reduce Litter, National Park Service Pulls Ocean Beach Trash Cans In a bizarrely counterintuitive move echoing San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department's efforts in Dolores Park, the National Park Service has removed a series of garbage cans along the Ocean Beach promenade with
SF News Marin Headlands Home With Killer View, In National Park, $6500+/Mo Are you paying to live in San Francisco but craving a more rustic life still within striking distance of that downtown office? Do you have a yen for landscape painting? Then look no
SF News Bomb Squad, Distressed Teens Make For Crazy Day At Ocean Beach National Park Service crews were in the right place at the right time Wednesday, when beach patrol units who were staking out a military flare that had washed up on Ocean Beach were
SF News Hang Glider Slams Into San Francisco Cliff A San Francisco hang glider died Sunday, after witnesses say that he flew straight into a Fort Funston cliff. San Francisco Fire Department Battalion Chief Jeff Barden says that crews including an officer
misc Early Morning Bonfire Revelers at Ocean Beach Find Dead Body A group of people having a bonfire at Ocean Beach early this morning--in this weather?--came across the body of a dead man, which they found above the high tide line across from
SF News Surf's Up! Beaches Reopen The sands of Marin and San Mateo have officially reopened to the public. (We recommend hitting the beach in the fall. There's something luxurious about walking on the beach, bundled up in winter
