SF News COVID Outbreak at SF County Jail, More Than 40 Prisoners Infected Another COVID-19 outbreak in the correctional system, as SF County Jail is seeing a spike with 42 prisoners currently infected, though the highest numbers of infections are being reported at the County Jail No. 3 facility which is in San Bruno.
SF News Antioch Passes a Ban on Encouraging or Even Watching Sideshows The East Bay city of Antioch is struggling with too few cops and too many sideshows, but its city council just unanimously passed a ban on advertising, promoting, encouraging, or even watching a sideshow.
SF News Derailed Maintenance Vehicle Leads to BART Delays, Emergency Track Work A BART maintenance vehicle derailed early Wednesday near 19th Street Station in Oakland, and this has led to some emergency work and the halting of some service out of Richmond.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Supreme Court Sides With Biden Administration on Social Media Misinformation The Supreme Court ruled in favor of social media companies and the Biden Administration with regard to curbing misinformation online; BART has halted Red Line service; and Santa Rosa is dealing with a large power outage.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mission Street Harley-Davidson Shop Has Closed An Alameda County prosecutors’ union voted “overwhelmingly” to endorse recalling Pamela Price; a new elementary school slated for Mission Bay might be nixed over budget problems; and SF’s only dedicated Harley-Davidson dealership has closed.
SF News Teacher Housing Project at 18th and Mission Suddenly in Limbo, Site to Remain an Eyesore for Foreseeable Future An ambitious affordable housing for teachers was set to bring 63 housing units to a bedraggled abandoned building at 18th and Mission streets, but the federal funding was denied, and the project is now delayed indefinitely.
SF Politics SF’s Wealthiest Political Group Endorses Farrell and Lurie, Relegates Breed to Third Choice The moderate group Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, whose top money man is a Republican mega-donor, has dual-endorsed Mark Farrell and Daniel Lurie for SF mayor, and only says to include London Breed as your third choice so Peskin doesn’t win.
Arts & Entertainment Mid-Market Street May Get a Block Party on the Same First Thursdays as the Party on Second Street The stretch of Market Street between Powell Street and Civic Center has long been the subject of great hope for city officials, and those hopes have been raised and dashed many times over the years.
SF Politics Gavin Newsom Moving His Family From Sacramento to Marin County Governor Gavin Newsom is becoming a Marin County resident again, part-time at least, while he keeps his Sacramento home in the state capital, but his four kids will be attending Marin County schools.
SF News Apache Fire Near Chico Destroys Two Buildings, Triggers Evacuations A fire broke out in Butte County Monday evening and according to Cal Fire it was spreading at a dangerous pace before coming under more control Tuesday morning.
SF News Runaway Vendor Cart Rolls Down Dolores Park Hill, Injures Woman A freak accident happened Saturday in Dolores Park in which a vendor's pushcart rolled away down a steep embankment and into a crowd of people.
Business & Tech Waymo Opens Up SF Service To Anyone Who Wants a Self-Driving Car Ride, No More Wait List Anyone in San Francisco can now hail and ride a Waymo self-driving robotaxi, or rather, anyone in SF with the Waymo app and a working credit card, as the Google-owned autonomous company is opening its vehicles to SF’s masses.
SF Politics In Latest PR Effort, California Forever Opens Healthcare Clinic In Rio Vista As they attempt to win over hearts and minds to their plan to build a new city in eastern Solano County, the group California Forever has just pledged to bolster healthcare access in the county.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Dry Lightning Striking All Over California One California county saw 1,000 lightning strikes overnight; Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao's comms guy has left his job; and Elon Musk has fathered yet another kid, his twelfth.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Attorney Says He's No Longer Representing Oakland Mayor Attorney Tony Brass has fired Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao as a client, after she decided to make some combative public statements Monday; the 30-year-old KlaasKids Foundation is shutting down; and you may hear some thunder around the Bay tonight.
SF News Two-Year-Old Kid Saves Outer Richmond House From Being Destroyed by Fire The fast wits of a toddler may have saved a 35th Avenue property from being destroyed over the weekend, as the two-year-old is being credited with alerting his parents to a fire happening outside.
Arts & Entertainment Hello Kitty Cafe Truck Coming Back to SF This Weekend, as National Tour Hits Bay Area The traveling sensation of the Hello Kitty Cafe truck brings its bright pink stylings back to SF’s Stonestown Galleria on Saturday, along with scheduled July stops in San Jose and Pleasanton.
SF News SFUSD May Lay Off 600 Teachers and Staff In the Next Two Years Under Budget Plan As the San Francisco Unified School District submits to state oversight amid an ongoing budget crisis, we're now learning that the current plan to close a major deficit may include around 610 layoffs over the next two years.
SF News BART Police Confront and Arrest Stabbing Suspect Outside Powell Station A woman was arrested Monday morning on Market Street outside of the Powell Street BART station after she allegedly slashed a man on the train platform with a knife after the two exited a train.
Business & Tech The Hilton Oakland Airport Hotel Is Closing Permanently After 56 Years Oakland’s troubled Hegenberger Road is losing another national chain resident, as the Hilton Hotel near the Oakland Airport is shutting down permanently at the end of August.
SF News Doctors at UCSF Battle Over Opinions of the Gaza War, Question Whether Protest Should Happen at a Hospital As at many university campuses around the country, protests have broken out at the University of California San Francisco over the war between Israel and Hamas, only UCSF is, uniquely, mostly a medical institution with no undergraduate student body.
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF’s Three-Legged Dog Picnic Smashes World Record for Largest-Ever Gathering of Three-Legged Dogs Behold Sunday’s “Tri-Pawed Picnic,” which drew the famed Doggie Diner heads and broke the world record for the most three-legged dogs ever counted in one place. We’ve got pup-arazzi pictures and video of these dogs who’ve bounced back from some pretty ruff encounters.
SF Politics Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao Gives Fiery Press Conference, Demands to Know Why the FBI Needed to Raid Her House Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao made her first public statements since last week's FBI raid on her home, offering some stern words for the agency and the proponents of the recall effort, though she did not take questions from the press.
SF News UC Says No to Proposed Campus In SF's Downtown A kind of moonshot proposal to install a new University of California campus in downtown San Francisco — one of a number of ideas that have been thrown out there in the last year by the mayor to bring new life to downtown — has been declined by the university.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Avocado Truck Overturns on 101 A truck carrying 16,000 pounds of avocados overturned in the northbound lanes of 101 in San Mateo; SF officials pushback on study calling SF the country's "worst-run city"; and a 30-year-old McDonald's has closed at Stonestown.
