SF News Day Around the Bay: California Law Firm Sues Trump On Behalf of 500 Firms Usha Vance's former law firm filed a federal lawsuit against Trump, along with more than 500 others; shots were fired during an armed robbery in Brentwood on Friday afternoon; and an American "danger tourist" visited remote, indigenous North Sentinel Island, leaving behind a Coke.
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.
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 Muir Woods Might Want To Look For a New Name As The Sierra Club Reckons With Its Founder's Racism The sheer number of things named after famed environmentalist John Muir in California makes for widespread implications if and when it comes time to remove his name from places of honor.
SF News Trump's Interior Secretary Proposes Substantial Entry Fee Price Hike For Yosemite, Yellowstone, And More It may soon cost you a heck of a lot more to enjoy the country's natural splendor, as the current Secretary of the Interior is considering a price hike (sorry) for entry into
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,
Arts & Entertainment Obama, First Family To Visit Yosemite Next Week The first family is set to visit California next week as part of an effort to highlight President Obama's efforts on behalf of our nation's parks. Specifically, reports the Chronicle, the four Obamas
SF News Video: Pregnant Woman Lost In National Forest Gives Birth, Fights Placenta-Seeking 'Meat Bees,' Starts Forest Fire, Is Rescued In what already smells like a best-seller, today we learn of a 9-months pregnant Oroville woman who spent four days stranded in the Plumas National Forest. During that time, she went into labor,
SF News Well Known Mountain Climber Dean Potter And One Other Die In BASE Jumping Accident At Yosemite A renowned climber and BASE jumper, who for years had flouted rules against BASE jumping in national parks, died Saturday along with another man in an accident involving wing suits, and a jump
Arts & Entertainment Video: Utah Parks Officials Discuss Cleaning Up Artist Casey Nocket's Graffiti From Zion National Park While we await charges (and a possible arrest) in the case of 21-year-old self-proclaimed graffiti artist Casey Nocket, who was named last week as the "major suspect" by federal authorities in the vandalism
SF News Woman Who Allegedly Vandalized Eight National Parks Publicly Named As Prime Suspect There's an update in the case of Casey Nocket, the horrible artist/attention whore who vandalized a slew of national parks and Instagrammed the whole thing. As Reuters reports, Nocket has now been
SF News Despicable New York Woman Defaces Yosemite, Other Parks With Her Art A woman by the name of Casey Nocket recently traveled from New York out west to deface some of our national parks with her crappy art, and then Instagram it. Nocket doesn't sound
SF News How The Bratty Government Shutdown Will Affect The Bay Area The GOP's egregious shutdown of the federal government will have wide-reaching effects (other than your noble attempts at being a fantasy Daily Show writer, as evidenced by Facebook and Twitter). In addition to,
SF News Yosemite Is America's Most Intoxicated National Park In the scenic vistas of Yosemite Valley, park rangers see more drug arrests per 100,000 visitors than any of the country's most-visited national parks. In the past year, 855 people were busted
SF News What The Government Shutdown Could Mean For You With no budget deal on the horizon, the Obama administration warned today that a federal government shutdown would spark layoffs of as many as 800,000 federal employees and "could stall tax refunds,
SF News Oh Good, Loaded Guns Now Allowed at Crissy Field Starting today, loaded guns will be allowed at all national state parks. "The law lets licensed gun owners bring firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges as long as they are allowed by
