SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SF Mayor London Breed Evacuated From Maui The death toll in the Maui wildfire has risen to 36; SF Mayor London Breed was on a personal vacation on Maui when the fire struck and she evacuated to Oahu; and the current COVID test-positivity rate in California could be quite high if Walgreens data is any indication.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Woman's Body Found on Alameda Shoreline A woman's remains were found near Bay Farm Island Bridge in Alameda; the clerks at a Stockton 7-11 won't be charged for beating a would-be thief; and Bob the Drag Queen is a late replacement for Trixie Mattel at Outside Lands.
Business & Tech One Autonomous Vehicle Appeared to Chase a Fire Truck; Another Blocked a Fire Truck From Getting Out of Its Station On the eve of a key vote by a state commission on whether to allow Cruise and Waymo to further expand their autonomous vehicle testing and begin taking paid passengers all over SF, we're getting to see some of the 55 incident reports filed by the SF Fire Department involving AVs.
SF News City Buys Former Zendesk HQ On Market Street, Will Make It ‘Mental Health Service Center’ A full reversal from an Ed Lee-era “Twitter tax break” deal, as after Zendesk bailed from 2019 Market Street during the pandemic, the City of San Francisco is buying the property with plans to transform it into a “mental health service center.”
SF Politics Some Joker Is Advertising an SF ‘Doom Loop Walking Tour’ For $30 a Ticket In what seems an elaborate troll job, but managed to get published and promoted on Eventbrite, someone’s offering a chance to “view the open-air drug markets” at Civic Center for $30, which I’m pretty sure you can do for free.
Arts & Entertainment How to Get In and Out of Outside Lands By Public Transit or Bike We've tried to get the word out every year, and we'll try again: Getting into and out the far reaches of Golden Gate Park on Outside Lands weekend is not something you should be trying to do by car. You will regret it.
SF Politics Special Counsel Got Search Warrant For Trump's Twitter Account, and Twitter Fought It There might be something in Donald Trump's DMs that's relevant to Special Counsel Jack Smith's January 6th case, and we're just now learning that Smith got a search warrant for Trump's dormant Twitter account back in January.
SF News Four Armed Gunmen Rob Man Waiting for Uber Near Alamo Square Park A broad daylight Monday morning robbery at Fulton and Steiner streets, as four masked men in an SUV pulled an armed robbery of a man simply standing and waiting for his Uber.
SF News Hawaii Wildfires Have Killed at Least 36, Burned More Than 1,000 Acres, Forcing Mass Evacuations Apocalyptic scenes from Maui and the Big Island of Hawaii, as the islands have suddenly been consumed in flames as hurricane-force winds spread brush fires, and people were driven to jump into the ocean to escape the overwhelming smoke and flames.
SF News Sen. Dianne Feinstein Suffers Minor Fall While at Home In San Francisco It's not great when TMZ is breaking the news about Dianne Feinstein landing in the hospital. But that is what happened Tuesday night, after the 90-year-old senator reportedly tripped in her San Francisco home.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Inner Sunset Fire Damages Apartment Building, Hardware Store A two-alarm fire in the Inner Sunset impacted at least 12 residential units; a Novato man was arrested twice for hate crimes; and Oakland has had three homicides in 72 hours.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Supervisor Walton Dinged by HR for Metal Detector Incident With Sheriff's Cadet The Alameda County DA has dropped more enhancements in a high-profile murder case, that Whole Foods proposed for Geary and Masonic may have an opening date, and Supervisor Shamann Walton has received his slap on the wrist for an n-word incident with a sheriff's cadet.
SF News The Former ‘Monster In the Mission’ Project, Now Slated to Be Affordable Housing, Gets Even Bigger Mayor London Breed is ordering a supersize increase in the number of units to the affordable housing complex going into what used to be the Burger King and Walgreens buildings at 16th and Mission, at the once-derided “Monster in the Mission” site.
SF News Fatal Shooting Leaves One Dead at Lake Merritt BART Station There was a fatal shooting Tuesday afternoon outside the Lake Merritt BART station in Oakland, adding to an already violent summer in Oakland.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Suicide Prevention Nets Already Reducing Deaths, Despite Not Being Complete The number of deaths by suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge has decreased remarkably as work on the suicide prevention nets continues, and the barriers are expected to be fully installed by the end of the year.
SF News In the Wake of 'Party Mom' Case, Los Gatos Is Trying Multiple Things to Curb Teen Drinking In Los Gatos, they're going to be holding workshops and conducting a survey of students, parents, and teachers about alcohol and drug use, and try to show kids that most of their peers aren't drinking or doing drugs as much as they may think.
SF News Cops, Firefighters, and of Course Taxi Drivers Tee Off on Self-Driving Robotaxis Before Key Regulatory Vote Firefighters complain “it is not our job to babysit their vehicles” as Cruise and Waymo road glitches are on the uptick ahead of Thursday’s CPUC vote on whether to allow more robotaxis in SF. Oh, and Willie Brown is now a lobbyist for Cruise.
SF News Red Lanterns Return to SF Chinatown After Being Destroyed In Winter Storms The iconic red lanterns that dangle over Grant Avenue in San Francisco's Chinatown needed replacing after getting battered and tattered in this past winter's severe storms. And now, after a fundraising campaign, they are back.
SF News Man Who Threatened to Blow Up SF Synagogue Convicted, Has History of Threatening Synagogues A San Francisco man is finally facing jail time after his third arrest for threatening Bay Area synagogues, and he’s previously served time for stalking children at a Pac Heights elementary school.
SF News San Francisco IKEA Store Has An Opening Date, and It's Very Soon After what seems like — and actually was — years of waiting, we have an opening date for the new downtown IKEA store in San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports Video: Steph Curry Gets On Stage, Sings With Paramore at Chase Center Is it weird or wonderful that Steph Curry loves this TikTok-popular, 90s-sounding pop-rock band Paramore so much that he got on stage to sing their biggest hit with them at the Chase Center Monday night?
SF News Broad Daylight Stabbing on SF's Market Street Leaves One Injured A man was stabbed Monday afternoon in downtown San Francisco, and the victim reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brazen Thieves With Trash Bags Hit Oakland 7-11 Stores Groups of thieves have hit multiple Oakland 7-11 stores, sweeping merchandise into trash bags; CNN has a new piece about the crime surge in Oakland; and apparently Newsom and DeSantis will be debating each other.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CHP Nabs Marin Driver With Mannequin Carpool Pal SF Sup. Matt Dorsey has irked progressive colleagues with a proposal about those 'wellness hubs'; there was an incident involving a stalled Waymo One taxi on Valencia on Sunday; and CHP officers caught a guy using the old mannequin trick to ride in the carpool lane on 101 in Marin.
SF News BART Awards Contract For 775 New Supposedly Evasion-Proof Replacement Fare Gates The West Oakland BART station will get the first batch of futuristic and allegedly evasion-proof fare gates this December, and the whole system will have them by 2025, as the transit agency hopes to stop chronic fare evasion.
