SF News Glass Falls Off Fox Plaza and Crashed Onto Street, Possibly Due to Wind At least one large pane of glass from Fox Plaza came crashing down to the street near Civic Center Wednesday morning in what appears to be the first wind-related hazard on San Francisco streets due to the current storm.
Business & Tech Salesforce Is Laying Off 10% of Its Workforce, Nearly 8,000 Employees San Francisco‘s largest private employer will be a less-large private employer, as Salesforce dropped a bomb Wednesday morning announcing that they’re laying off nearly 8,000 employees.
SF News Watsonville Evacuated, Guerneville Braces for Another Flood The majority of coastal California is at a significant risk of flooding today as a 'bomb cyclone' storm bears down, with some inland areas at risk as well, and officials in Watsonville are taking no chances and have issued mandatory evacuation orders.
SF News Rainy Humpday Headlines: The Line For Sandbags Has Been Very Long SF's Dept. of Public Works keeps running out of sandbags but people are lined up anyway, school is being canceled for tomorrow in some cities, and a COVID-positive inmate died in custody in Martinez.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Brian Sabean Leaves the Giants For the NY Yankees That terrifying Tesla crash at Devil’s Slide is now considered to be intentional, feds have charged the man who was busted in the Tenderloin with nearly eight pounds of fentanyl, and architect of the Giants’ dynasty Brian Sabean is leaving the team’s front office to join the New York Yankees.
SF News Mission District and Bernal Heights Restaurants Gear Up For More Floods, As Another Gigantic Storm Looms Barely 72 hours after being battered by floods, several Bay Area restaurants are gearing up for another “bomb cyclone/atmospheric river,” and many have not even reopened after Saturday’s weather-related mayhem.
SF Politics Pelosi Steps Down as Speaker, and Kevin McCarthy Fails Spectacularly In Bid For the Job Bakersfield representative Kevin McCarthy has just lost three consecutive votes in a row Tuesday in his bid to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, as Nancy Pelosi chortles and wipes McCarthy’s dignity off the bottom of her heels.
SF News SF Sees Exact Same Number of Homicides In 2022 As Previous Year, While Burglaries Are Down According to the preliminary numbers from the SFPD, San Francisco looks to have had the exact same number of homicides in 2022 as in 2021 — a total of 55 — as of the end of the calendar year.
SF News Tesla Flies 250 Feet Off Cliff At Devil’s Slide, All Four Passengers Miraculously Survive It was a Monday morning disaster on the perilous Devil’s Slide section of Highway 1 near Pacifica as a vehicle flew off the road and fell more than 250 feet, yet multiple helicopters and dozens of rescue workers managed to get the two children and two adult passengers out alive.
SF News Midweek 'Bomb Cyclone' May Break Rain Records Already Broken By Saturday's Storm Meteorologists with the National Weather Service are warning that the coming bomb cyclone looks to be even more brutal, windy, and wet than what we just experienced on Saturday. So, clear those storm drains and brace yourselves.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Celebrated Bar Star at Bar Iris In Russian Hill Falls From Roof To His Death A promising career ended tragically Friday when 33-year-old bar manager Ilya Romanov fell from the rooftop garden of the Russian Hill establishments Nisei and Bar Iris, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
SF News Oakland Zoo Likely Closed For Weeks Due to Sinkhole Near Entrance With another onslaught of rain on the way that is likely to cause more of this type of damage across the region, the Oakland Zoo is facing some significant road-repair work before it can reopen to the public due to a sinkhole that formed after Saturday's storm.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Snowfall In Napa Causes Travel Woes On Hwy 29 Snow fell on part of Highway 29 in Calistoga last night and immobilized some cars; a sinkhole swallowed an SUV in San Mateo; and infectious disease experts are watching the growth of a new U.S.-borne variant of Omicron.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Win a Nail Biter Against the Raiders and Are Still In the Hunt For the No. 1 Playoff Seed How about that backup quarterback? No one knew his name before he took the field yesterday, but he played with poise and swagger, passing for 365 yards and three touchdowns. Will he be the new face of the franchise? Will he lead his team to glory?
SF News SF Still Digging Out From Saturday’s Mudslides, Downed Trees, Floods, and Chaos That New Year’s Eve storm was an all-timer, and its aftermath continues with numerous homes still red-tagged, residents displaced, and businesses dealing with the worst flooding wreckage they’ve ever seen.
SF News Post-New Year's Weekend Headlines: Aaaand Here Comes More Rain More rain arrives today and then some heavier rain comes midweek; Oakland marked its first homicide of the year on Sunday; and 19 residents of a Castro Valley nursing home had to be evacuated due to flooding on Saturday.
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SF News Male Pedestrian Killed By Truck In San Jose On New Year’s Eve A San Jose accident Saturday night left a pedestrian dead, bringing the total annual number of fatalities in the city to 65, with specifically 32 pedestrians, police say.
SF News Sunday Links: First 2023 Bay Area Baby Born in Walnut Creek Just After Midnight First infant of Bay Area in 2023 appears to be a boy named Ezekeil; San Francisco downtown got 5.46 inches December 31st, the second wettest day since records have been kept; and SFPD said they had a busy New Year's Eve.
SF News Former SF 49ers Quarterback Blaine Gabbert Helps Rescue 4 People in Florida Helicopter Crash Last week, Gabbert was jet skiing in his new hometown of Tampa when a nearby helicopter crash meant he raced to the site and helped rescue a group of four, all of whom survived.
SF News Bernal Hill Becomes One Big Mudslide As San Francisco Sees 173-Year-Old Rainfall Record Shattered You can see the rain pouring down outside in a steady, heavy way, and if you were thinking it seemed especially heavy, you would be correct. And if you live in Bernal Heights, the water is flowing pretty much all over.
SF News Alameda County Reveals Error in Counting Ranked-Choice Votes, Flipping Outcome of One District School Board Race Last week, Alameda County election officials announced they found a programming error in the vote-counting process that miscounted votes, resulting in a new winner in the Oakland District 4 School Board Director race.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Under Flood Watch As Atmospheric River Hits Region New Year's Eve A Category 4 atmospheric river has brought all of the Bay Area under flood watch warnings; no winner in the Mega Millions lotto yet; and the SF law school called "UC Hastings" is legally allowed to change its name after a new ruling.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Bay Area Residents Face Federal Charges in Alleged Kidnapping and Ransom Scheme in Miami Two men allegedly flew from San Jose to Miami to kidnap and hold two children and two adults hostage for ransom; a 15-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly fatally shooting another teen at a Pittsburg residence; and a Clipper card shortage could mess up your New Year's Eve plans.
SF News SF Spearheads Launch Of A New ‘Morning After Pill’ For Sexually Transmitted Infections Move over PrEP, now there’s doxy-PEP, a sort of morning after pill that instead of preventing pregnancy, prevents you from getting an STI after unprotected sex.
