SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom's Presidential Ambitions Show in Second Inaugural Governor Address Newsom's second term officially began Friday in Sacramento with an anti-Republican speech; The Warriors asked SF to cut the Chase Center's taxes; and a woman pumping gas was reportedly pistol-whipped and had her truck stolen, police said.
SF News Four People Shot, One Killed In the Mission District Friday Morning, Within a Block of SFPD Mission Station Just before 2 a.m. Friday morning, four people were shot on Valencia Street within a stone’s throw of the SFPD's Mission Station. And SFPD has just announced that one 28-year-old male victim has died.
SF News Central Subway to Actually Begin Functioning as T-Line Starting Saturday Yes, the time has come. Saturday is the day that the Central Subway will see its first day of full, integrated operation with the rest of the Muni underground system — and we're taking bets about how smoothly/terribly this will go.
SF News Another Major Rockslide Closes Highway 1 South of Big Sur For Several Weeks, Maybe Longer You will not be able to drive Highway 1 between Big Sur and San Simeon for quite some time, and with good reason, because this rockslide has rendered that road pretty much unnavigable.
SF News Rainy Saturday Will Be a Mild Preview of More Storms to Come Next Week While there isn't another bomb cyclone on the horizon for now, two more atmospheric river storms are headed our way next week, with a bit more Pineapple Express downpour starting Saturday.
SF News Health Officials Urge Contra Costa DA To Investigate Martinez Refinery’s Unreported Hazardous Chemical Release Contra Costa Health Services is demanding the investigation of a release of hazardous metals into the air from a Thanksgiving weekend flare-up at the Martinez Refining Company, which left neighborhoods covered in “mysterious white ash.”
Bay Area Sports A Tale of Two Teams (But Not): A Mid-Season Golden State Warriors Check-In As long as they don't ever have to play on the road again, and so long as players don't get injured, the Golden State Warriors will be the best team in basketball.
SF News SFPD: Woman Admitted to Killing Her Two Daughters In Hunters Point Home More tragic details have now come out in court documents about the case against Paulesha Green-Pulliam, who pleaded not guilty last week to the double-murder of her young daughters two days before Christmas.
SF News Family of Sonoma County Toddler Killed By Fallen Redwood Tree Speaks Out We now have a statement from the grandmother of two-year-old Aeon Tocchini, who was crushed by a fallen redwood tree in Wednesday’s storms. The family has not only lost a son, but their home is also physically destroyed.
SF News Evacuation Warnings Issued For Russian River Valley Ahead of Likely Weekend Flooding The entire Bay Area is once again under a Flood Watch starting on Saturday, as two more storm systems head into the region, and low-lying areas along the Russian River are now under evacuation warnings.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: SF Just Saw Its Wettest 10 Days In 150 Years The SFPD just announced the arrest of a serial commercial burglary suspect, the residents of Capitola are still without power, and the last 10 days are officially the second-wettest ever recorded in downtown San Francisco.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Public Works Sandbag Giveaway Resumes As Reinforcements Arrive Mayor Breed is getting some grief over storm preparedness, two below-ground theater venues found themselves completely flooded, and Public Works is handing out sandbags again after they ran out on Wednesday.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
SF News Fatal Hit-And-Run After Breakfast of Champions Party Leaves One Woman Dead, Another Man Injured The tail-end of the New Year’s Day block party It's A New Day + Breakfast Of Champions was marred by terrible tragedy, as two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver who’s still at large, and one of those victims died at the hospital.
SF News Coastal Piers Getting Destroyed By 35-Foot Waves In Santa Cruz, Capitola The atmospheric river is rough on ocean areas, as the Capitola Wharf has been crashed in half by waves as large as 35 feet as this storm pummels coastal areas of Santa Cruz and San Mateo Counties.
Arts & Entertainment Longtime Ocean Beach Surf Shop Owner Bob Wise Dies at Age 74 In the surfer community of San Francisco and beyond, if you've been in it a good while, you probably knew about Bob Wise and his half-century-old surf shop at Ocean Beach, Wise Surfboards.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two Teens For Fatal Shooting of Japantown Security Guard A 15-year-old and a 14-year-old are in custody for the Wednesday night shooting of a security guard at the Japantown mall, who was declared dead at the scene shortly after SFPD arrived.
SF News SFMTA and Public Works Clean Up After Dozens of Trees Fall Onto Muni Tracks and Overhead Lines The SFMTA is continuing to clean up on Thursday after a night in which Muni routes were blocked by fallen trees and debris in at least eight different locations around San Francisco.
SF News Man Who Killed Nia Wilson Loses Appeal of Murder Conviction In 2018 BART Stabbing John Lee Cowell appealed his first-degree murder conviction in the fatal 2018 stabbing of Nia Wilson at an Oakland BART station, but the First Appellate District of California did not buy his attorneys’ claims of an insanity defense.
SF News Two Deaths Attributed to Storm Including Sonoma Toddler; 70,000 Still Without Power Wednesday's bomb cyclone turned out to be less impactful in terms of rainfall totals than the one we saw on Saturday, but forecasters were right about the wind-related dangers, and a downed tree has been blamed for at least one death in Sonoma County.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Wind Gusts Recorded Last Night of 85mph and Higher A wind gust of 101 mph was recorded in Marin last night, the Russian River is likely to see worse flooding on Sunday than it will today, and Amazon is laying of 18,000 workers.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Point Richmond and Niles Canyon Residents Evacuated Over Landslide Risks Alameda County officials strongly advised residents of Niles Canyon to evacuate Wednesday; 15 homes have been evacuated in Point Richmond due to a potential landslide occurring above them; and PG&E already had 25,000 customers without power at 4 p.m.
SF News Meteorologists: This Parade of Storms Is Coming From a 'Runaway Pacific Freight Train' and 'Wavy Jet Stream' A "roiling" Pacific Ocean being stirred up by a third-in-a-row La Nina cycle as well as climate change and other factors are making for some unstable and dramatic weather on the West Coast and elsewhere around the globe.
SF News City Attorney Blasts Judge’s Ruling Banning Homeless Encampment Sweeps, Says It ‘Defies Logic’ After a federal judge banned the clearing of tents and encampments in SF, City Attorney David Chiu is kindly asking the judge to “clarify” her decision, while also telling her the decision “defies logic.”
Business & Tech Twitter Now Trying To Auction Off Extra Office Stuff As New Lawsuit Is Filed Over Rent Elon Musk’s Twitter has unpaid bills and lawsuits piling up, and now the company is trying to auction off its furniture, office supplies, kitchen supplies, and neon signs from their lobbies.
