SF News Bay Area Couple Sues Over Being Abandoned In Rough Waters on Hawaiian Snorkel Tour The Hayward couple filed a lawsuit in federal court suing a snorkel tour operator for $5 million, alleging negligence and emotional distress, after being left behind by the boat and having to swim to shore, they say.
SF News Three People Shot Overnight in San Francisco in Three Separate Shootings, None Fatal A 14-year-old, 33-year-old, and 52-year-old were victims of shootings that took place over four hours from late Saturday night to early Sunday morning, but all victims survived.
SF News Sunday Links: Stillborn Baby Found in SF-Funded Tent Village Bathroom Last Year, City Confirms The body of a stillborn baby was discovered at the city-funded encampment in front of San Francisco City Hall in January 2022; a Sunday morning fire in the Outer Richmond damaged two homes; and snowstorms are pummeling Tahoe (again).
SF News Friday Night Japantown Fire Displaces 2 People, 1 Dog Firefighters rescued a German Shepherd from a structure fire at 2143 Pine Street, a four-story, multiresidential building, although no injuries (canine or otherwise) were reported.
SF News Extra Federal Food Stamp Assistance Ending, Leaving Nearly 100K San Franciscans At Risk of Food Insecurity An estimated 96,000 SF residents across 70,000 households — representing 12% of the city’s population — will lose an average of $160 a month in CalFresh benefits, as food prices continue to rise.
SF News Saturday Links: Celebrate Holi, the Hindu Festival of Colors, in the Bay Area This Weekend More rain is in the forecast this weekend; A mountain lion sighting led to a shelter-in-place warning at a Half Moon Bay school; and a guide to celebrating Holi, the Hindu celebration of colors, in the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Man Arrested In Connection With PG&E Transformer Explosions The suspect in the explosions, 35-year-old San Jose resident Peter Karasev, faces several felony charges; Sotheby's is auctioning off Pier 24 Photography's famous photo collection ASAP; and the stolen van in Napa with several shelter cats inside has been recovered.
SF Politics Ron DeSantis Fundraising In California, Newsom Jabs That DeSantis Is ‘Going To Get Smoked by Trump’ The ongoing taunt war between Ron DeSantis and Gavin Newsom flares up again as the Florida governor comes fundraising to California this weekend, with Newsom razzing that DeSantis will “get smoked by Trump” in the upcoming GOP primary.
SF News Berkeley Poised to Close Famed Anthropology Library, Angry Students In Full ‘Occupy’ Mode UC Berkeley’s 67-year-old George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library is one of only three university anthropology libraries in the U.S., but the school wants to shut it down, prompting an Occupy-style student protest.
Arts & Entertainment Comic Political Thriller 'Tea Party' Opens at the Strand Theater, a Swan Song Directing Project From a Director With ALS A Bay Area theater director who was diagnosed with ALS last year, and who has already lost the ability to speak, is at the helm of what she calls her "dream project," which came together quickly through the help of theater friends and opened last night at ACT's Strand Theater.
SF News The SFPD Brags About Busting Johns Seeking Sex Workers on Capp Street Undercover SFPD officers have recently been posing as sex workers and they say they've busted 30 "johns" in a pointless exercise on Capp Street, in an ongoing effort to crack down on solicitation on that Mission District alley.
SF News Hackers In Ransomware Attack Plan to Release City of Oakland Employee Info, and More The City of Oakland, it looks like, opted not to pay any ransom to a hacker group that succeeded in hobbling multiple city systems, and that group is now planning to make good on its threat to release an unknown amount of sensitive data.
SF News Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Gets Reprieve to Stay Open Past 2025, Could Be Running Another 20 Years California’s last remaining nuclear power plant will definitely remain open at least a couple more years, and the state wants it running until 2023, but PG&E wants it running another 20 years.
SF News There Are New Express Toll Lanes On 101 Between San Bruno and Redwood City, Starting Today You can cruise through traffic in the new express lanes that opened Friday morning on U.S. 101, and it’s free for carpools of three or more people, but it’s a $500 fine if you’re in that lane without a FasTrak.
SF Politics Scott Wiener Takes First Official Steps Toward a Run For Congress State Senator and former SF Supervisor Scott Wiener is making moves in preparation to run for Nancy Pelosi's House seat next year, assuming she plans to retire, which she has not said she will.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Body Found on Daly City Beach The body of an unidentified elderly man was found on a beach in Daly City; Berkeley police say a TikTok challenge is driving car thefts; and a fourth inmate in six weeks has died in custody at Santa Rita Jail.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Now You Have Until October 16 To Do Both Your State And Federal Taxes Another quixotic attempt to make Daylight Saving Time permanent is before Congress, now even Salesforce wants to sublease space in Salesforce Tower, and the state of California has joined the feds in not requiring many Californians to file their taxes until October 16.
Arts & Entertainment 'Cambodian Rock Band' at Berkeley Rep Tells of Khmer Rouge Abuses Through the Lens of Musicians It's no small thing to get an audience standing and dancing, lost in the psychedelic/surf groove of a Cambodian-style rock band from the 1970s, in the wake of a story largely about torture and genocide.
SF Politics Feinstein Sidelined With ‘Health Matter,' Which We Now Know Is Shingles Senator Dianne Feinstein has been missing Senate votes all week, and this morning her office announced she was “dealing with a health matter," which is now reported to be a shingles infection.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge Scheduled To Be Shut Off Sunday Night They’re scheduled to hit the kill switch on the Bay Bridge’s Bay Lights at 8 p.m. sharp Sunday night, as a private fundraiser donor drive for another $11 million has apparently come up short.
SF News Today, SFist Is Retiring Its COVID Data Update Page This has been a long time coming. And yes, COVID is still with us, but the daily and weekly case counts we've been tracking for nearly three years are no longer that useful, so it's time to move on.
SF News SF’s Trailblazing Trans Lutheran Bishop Sues Lutheran Church Over Resignation He Now Says Was Forced The initially feel-good story of the first trans Lutheran bishop in the U.S. has now taken another contentious turn, as SF’s Rev. Megan Rohrer is suing the Lutheran Church over his June resignation that he now alleges was orchestrated by higher-ups.
SF News More Than Half of California Is Now Officially Drought-Free You'd think after the rains of this winter that the drought might be completely behind us, but it is not — and, counterintuitively, much of the Bay Area is still officially "abnormally dry" by federal Drought Monitor standards.
SF News More Details Emerge In Fatal High-Speed Fairfield Crash; Teen Victims Had Allegedly Been On Crime Spree We already knew that a fatal February 22 100-mph rollover crash in Fairfield involved an allegedly carjacked vehicle, but we’re now learning that the three who died were teenagers whom authorities say had been on a three-day crime spree that left one man shot and paralyzed.
SF News Snow Is Literally Crushing Buildings In Tahoe Area The weight of massive snow accumulation on rooftops has led to at least two destroyed buildings in the Tahoe area and Sierra foothills, with more perhaps to come.
