SF News SFO Will Be First In U.S. to Test Planes’ Wastewater For COVID Variants International arriving flights at SFO will have their wastewater tested for the emergence of new COVID-19 variants, the airport announced Tuesday, making it the first U.S. airport that's doing so.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SoCal Pooch Wins Best In Show at Westminster Dog Show The SF Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to urge the DA's office to release the Banko Brown shooting video; Sonoma County officers engaged in a high-speed chase that ended with a crash; and a Palm Springs-based petit basset griffon Vendéen won Best in Show at Westminster last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: A’s Las Vegas Deal May Be Falling Apart, Team Picks Different Stadium Site Trump lost his sexual assault and defamation case, free Narcan vending machines are popping up at Bay Area colleges, and the Oakland A’s just hastily pulled out of their Las Vegas stadium deal in favor of a different Las Vegas site.
SF News People Are Ditching BART Because of Safety and Uncleanliness, Says Pro-Business Group Poll A new poll suggests that it’s not remote work, but safety and lack of cleanliness keeping people off of BART. But the survey is from a business group with a history of somewhat dubious polls.
Arts & Entertainment Oaklash Drag and Queer Performance Festival Set to Serve More Punk Realness In Its Sixth Year The main events for the Oakland drag festival Oaklash are scheduled for the weekend after next (May 19-21) with a grand finale at Fairyland, but Oaklash is digging in its heels with early panels and workshops this week.
Business & Tech Guess What Tucker Carlson's New Broadcast Platform Is! Lest you think that Elon Musk might have been reconsidering his recent decision to go on Tucker Carlson's now canceled Fox News show to talk about his concerns for the future of artificial intelligence... he's now doubling down on his apparent love for Carlson.
SF News Now Berkeley and UC Berkeley Are Talking Name Change Over Namesake’s Problematic History 18th-century philosopher George Berkeley, who it turns out owned slaves and wrote pro-slavery pamphlets, may spur the latest renaming crusade, as both UC Berkeley and the city of Berkeley delicately consider a possible renaming.
SF Politics Sen. Dianne Feinstein Reportedly on Plane Back to D.C. After three months away from the Senate, California Senator Dianne Feinstein is reportedly en route back to Washington, and is set to resume her duties as soon as Tuesday evening in the Senate.
SF Politics Possible Standoff Takes Shape Between DA and SF Supervisors Over Banko Brown Case Tensions are escalating between the SF District Attorney's Office and the Board of Supervisors as the supervisors prepare to vote to formally push for the release of surveillance video in the Banko Brown shooting case.
Bay Area Sports The Warriors Come Undone Late In Game 4, Fall 3-1 to Lakers In Semis After being blown out in Game 3 in Los Angles on Saturday, the Dubs responded beautifully in Game 4 last night before slowly unraveling late and trying to hero ball their way to a win, losing to the Lakers 104-101. The Warriors are again on the brink of elimination.
SF News Five People Injured In Early Morning Sunset Fire, Believed to Be Caused by E-Bike Battery Two people were injured leaping from windows to escape the fire, with three others injured by the fire itself, as an early Tuesday morning fire at the Sunset’s Avalon Sunset Towers is believed to have been caused by an e-bike’s lithium-ion battery.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Chicks, Almost Fully Grown, Get Tail Feathers, Naming Contest This year's brood of three falcon chicks atop the UC Berkeley Campanile have been officially banded, and we know there are two females and one male — the latest in falcon Annie's growing lineage.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: New Images Show Tulare Lake Growing Near Corcoran A San Francisco man is facing peeping-tom charges stemming from a hidden camera; there was a strange mercury spill at the Martinez Amtrak station; and new satellite images show Tulare Lake growing in the Central Valley.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Downtown SF Has 18.4 Million Square Feet of Empty Offices Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao wants to merge two city departments to save money; downtown SF now has 18.4M square feet of empty office space; and a vote by the SF Board of Supes on the Castro Theatre seats may be as soon as next week.
SF News Oakland Catholic Diocese Files for Bankruptcy as 330 Sexual Abuse Lawsuits Loom With a substantial 330 sexual abuse lawsuits looming against their priests, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, hoping to stem financial losses from all these abuse cases.
SF News DA Jenkins Issues Statement On Banko Brown Case, Says It Is Not Closed In an effort to quell the public outcry following her office's decision not to file charges the security guard responsible for the death of Banko Brown, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins issued a statement Monday making clear that charges still may be forthcoming.
Bay Area Sports As Warriors Look to Bounce Back, Fans Fume Over the Referees Again Golden State Warriors fans are already complaining about Monday night’s Game 4 referees, hours before the game has even started, as the Dubs hope to even the series again on the Lakers’ home court.
SF Politics SF Supervisor Ahsha Safai Makes It Official: He's Running For Mayor Confirming a widespread rumor of many months, San Francisco Supervisor Ahsha Safaí has filed paperwork making it official that he will run for mayor against London Breed in 2024.
SF News SF Home Prices Cooling Down After Hitting Pandemic Highs San Francisco bucked logic and saw its home prices increase during COVID-19, peaking to a record a year ago this time. But the high price of San Francisco houses is starting to come down.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes's New Daughter Is Named Invicta, and Other Revelations From a Strange New NYT Profile As she awaits the near-inevitable denial of her appeal to the Ninth Circuit, after which she will get a new prison reporting date, Elizabeth Holmes is relaxing in San Diego, bonding with her newborn, and apparently trying to rehabilitate the public perception of herself.
SF News Cars Set On Fire And Rammed Into As Multiple Sideshows Rollicked Oakland Friday At least three large sideshows brought mayhem to Oakland streets Friday night and Saturday morning, and in one of them two cars set on fire and rammed into for sport by other cars.
SF News Four Men and One 16-Year-Old Boy Shot and Wounded In Brazen Redwood City Shooting A male suspect with a 9mm handgun apparently walked up to a group of males sitting on a sidewalk drinking early Sunday in Redwood City and shot them all.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Rally For Justice For Banko Brown Includes More Calls to Release Video A large group rallied again Sunday outside the Market Street Walgreens where Banko Brown was shot; a man was found dead in a North Oakland motel; and SF's average high temperature for the first week of May was the coldest in 50 years.
SF News Design Firm Debuts New Renderings of California High-Speed Rail A design studio contracted through the state's high-speed rail budget created new designs for the stations in Fresno, Merced, Hanford, and Bakersfield, the initial four stops along the proposed interim high-speed rail line.
SF News Black Californians Closer to Reparations: Task Force Proposes Payments, Apology, and More in Historic Vote Saturday The task force, put together over two years ago, is the first statewide body to tackle policy recommendations for reparations, and also recommends policy changes involving the justice system, housing rules, and employment practices.
