SF News Heat Stuff: Santa Rosa Sees All-Time High-Temp Record Broken, More Energy Conservation Needed Wednesday It hit 115 degrees in Santa Rosa on Tuesday, breaking the city's all-time high-temperature record of 113 degrees set in 1913. And that wasn't even the only Bay Area city to see its all-time record broken.
SF News Humpday Headlines: California Avoids Blackouts, But Just Barely The state avoided rolling blackouts on Tuesday but a few Bay Area cities cut power briefly on their own, BART is fixing a heat-related track problem in the East Bay, and several schools in Novato don't have AC so they're ending the schoolday early this week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: High Temperatures Shatter Records Across California, Blackouts Could Be Coming The Queen of the Netherlands held court in the Castro, Sup. Connie Chan’s November housing ballot measure survived a legal challenge, and several California cities saw their all-time highest temperatures recorded Tuesday.
Arts & Entertainment How Weird Street Faire Returning for 2022, Set for October 15 Formerly the springtime kick-off of street fair season, it appears the How Weird Street Faire is now becoming an autumn festival, as they just announced their 2022 version will be Saturday, October 15.
Business & Tech Elizabeth Holmes Files Motion For New Trial After 'Remorseful' Prosecution Witness Shows Up at Her House Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her attorneys are again trying to keep her out of prison, this time based on what they say is new evidence from a former Theranos employee and key witness for the prosecution.
Business & Tech Santa Clara County Sues Rihanna’s Lingerie Brand Over Allegedly Deceptive Recurring Monthly Fees People who bought bras and underwear from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty label were allegedly enrolled in a recurring monthly fee program without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit from the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
SF News Two Men Escape From Clayton Correctional Facility, Despite Having Only a Few More Months to Serve Two men serving time at a minimum-security detention facility in Clayton sprung the place Sunday morning and remain at large, though one of them only had four more months to serve.
Business & Tech Juul Labs Settles Lawsuit From 33 States Over Marketing to Teens For $440M Formerly San Francisco-based e-cig maker Juul Labs has just settled one of a slew of lawsuits that it's still facing over the marketing of its products to young people, and over the potential harms of its products.
SF News More Than 3,000 Without Power In Livermore After Temperatures Hit 116 Degrees Monday Today could be one of the most taxing days ever on the California power grid, and it got off to a troublesome start, as thousands are without power in Livermore due to transformer failures.
SF News Rolling Blackouts Remain a Possibility Tuesday as Power Grid Gets Strained In Heatwave Californians are being asked to conserve energy use Tuesday afternoon if at all possible, as the threat of blackouts looms with the pending demand for power during the late-day heat.
SF News Two Women Shot, One Dead In SF's Hunters Point Two women were shot, one of them fatally, on Friday night in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunters Point.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Brush Fire Near Martinez Prompts Brief Evacuation Scare A Monday evening brush fire in the hills near Martinez prompted an evacuation warning but was quickly contained, it hit 97 degrees in SF on Monday breaking an earlier record, and 18 people died in vehicle crashes statewide over the holiday weekend.
SF News That Suicide Prevention Net Along Golden Gate Bridge Won't Be Done for at Least Another Year Having begun construction in 2018, the GGB's suicide prevention net system — a $211M project ideated back in 2015, but has experienced many setbacks, some spurred by the pandemic — is now set to be done by November 2023, a full two years past its originally planned completion date.
SF News Labor Day Links: Bay Area Heatwave Expected to Stick Around Even Longer Firefighters saved a six-month-old baby after being left in a hot car in Oakland, don't forget that nightly street sweeping and parking meters are still enforced today by SFMTA, and the current Bay Area heatwave is now expected to last until Thursday.
SF News Did You Feel It? 3.5M Earthquake Rattles Off Near San Jose The United States Geological Survey (USGS) registered a 3.5-magnitude earthquake near Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range — less than 25 miles from downtown San Jose.
SF News Two Large NorCal Wildfires Continue Growing, Force Thousands to Evacuate Since starting Friday, the Mountain and Mill fires in Siskiyou County have collectively burned over 13,000 acres... with little containment reported for each fire.
SF News Sunday Links: Here's When It's Going to Be the Hottest During This Bay Area Heatwave Two pedestrians were killed in San Jose Saturday, the Bay Area’s Spare the Air Alert has been extended to at least Sunday night, and this Labor Day weekend’s heat wave will bring its warmest days Monday and Tuesday.
SF News SF Launches Heat Mapping Effort to Find 'Heat Islands' As this weekend's heatwave descends on the Bay Area, thirty volunteers are participating in a community heat mapping project — called Urban Heat Watch— as part of SF's effort to better understand and locate "heat islands" in the city.
SF news Saturday Links: Spare the Air Alert in Effect for Most of Bay Area Today A 12-year-old girl was shot in Pittsburg during a fit of road rage, UC Berkeley will require face masks for students who opted out of flu shots, and the Bay Area Air District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for smog Saturday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Someone Took an Oakland Police Cruiser on a Joy Ride This Week Wine Country tourism is eerily slow this summer, a new poll suggests that most Americans believe democracy is “in danger of collapse,” and deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrested someone who allegedly stole — and crashed — an Oakland Police cruiser this week.
SF News 49ers Forced to Notify Nearly 21,000 People That They Had Their Personal Data Obtained by Hackers The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
SF News Trial Underway for Guy Who Allegedly Threatened to Kill Scott Wiener Over Vaccine Legislation State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent; which led to an anti-vaxxer saying “expect a visit from me and my rifle,” which led to that fellow now being on trial on eight felony counts.
SF News Oakland Settles for $250K With Two George Floyd Protesters, Agrees to Not Use Explosives on Demonstrators Two demonstrators from a June 2020 George Floyd protest won a quarter million dollars after being shot with rubber bullets, and the Oakland Police Department has agreed to not use “explosive grenades on peaceful crowds.”
SF News 35-Year-Old Restaurant Phuket Thai Closed After Building Fire; Fundraiser Launched For Displaced Tenants A major apartment building fire on Wednesday at Divisadero and Haight displaced 12 residents, some of them low-income and/or elderly — and a fundraiser has been launched to help them out. Also, the ground-floor restaurant, Phuket Thai, is likely to remain closed for a long while.
SF News Convicted Real Estate Investor Victor Makras’s Son Trying to Open Pot Shop In Ingleside Just after SF real estate magnate Victor Makras was found guilty of bank fraud, we learn his son is trying to turn over a new leaf with a proposed Ingleside-Mission Terrace cannabis dispensary.
