SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Supreme Court Issues Big Rulings On Guns, Miranda Rights The Supreme Court struck down a New York gun-control law in a ruling that could affect California, the man accused of stalking Justice Brett Kavanaugh pleaded not guilty, and delays continue on BART's Concord line.
SF News Day Around the Bay: 100-Acre Fire Burning In Winters Near Solano County A 100-acre wildfire is burning near the edge of Solano County in Winters, the Edgewood Fire in San Mateo County has reached 42% containment, and one person was critically injured in a house fire in SF's Mission District today.
SF Politics Despite $108 Million Surplus, Budget Wrangling Underway Between Mayor and Supervisors City Hall is enjoying an unprecedented $108 million budget surplus, which rather than making budgeting easier, is setting off all-out-wars between various special interests who think that the “fiscal cliff reserve” money really ought to be set aside for them.
SF News That Long-Planned ‘Sobering Center’ Will Finally Open Monday Near Howard and Seventh Streets A city-sponsored drug sobering center has been in the works in SF for more than two years, and it’s unclear whether drug use will be allowed on-site, or whether people will even access it. But it opens Monday as an 18-month pilot program.
Arts & Entertainment Update On the UC Berkeley Falcon Chicks: They've Fledged and Started Flying In just seven weeks' time, the two little fluffy peregrine falcon chicks in the UC Berkeley Campanile nest have become fully fledged juveniles — and over the last weekend, they both took their first flights.
SF News Dede Wilsey Comments on Paul Pelosi's (Alleged) Drunk-Driving Incident Paul Pelosi's DUI arrest over Memorial Day Weekend in Napa has become major fodder for right-wing loons who have been misinformed that he's skirting any charges, but society doyenne Dede Wilsey says it's a shame he was arrested at all.
SF Politics Sierra Foothills Town Nevada City Cancels Pride Over Safety Concerns, Mistrust of Police An inaugural Pride celebration in a small town roughly 150 miles northeast of SF would have been this past Saturday, but didn’t happen after Nevada City’s negative response to the Pride flags set off some red flags.
SF News Mayor London Breed Has COVID, Will Be Sidelined For SF Pride Festivities Mayor London Breed has tested positive for COVID, like nearly every elected official in the last couple of months, and this means she will be quarantining on Pride Weekend.
SF News Two Shot, One Killed on Muni Train Between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, Suspect at Large There’s a very heavy police presence at Castro and Market Streets, as two people were reportedly shot on a Muni train between Forest Hill and Castro Stations, but Muni service has now been restored in that tunnel.
SF News Humpday Headlines: BART Train Partially Derails Causing Minor Injuries A BART train partially derailed in Concord Tuesday due to heat-caused warping of a train track, a grass fire continues burning in San Mateo County, and permits have been revoked for a Pink Saturday event in the Castro just days ahead of it occurring.
SF News Longest Day of the Year Around the Bay: SF Temperatures Hit 92 Degrees on Summer Solstice A Mission District man was killed in a 4:30 a.m. hit-and-run at 16th and South Van Ness, and Bay Area grass fires are causing trouble, as today's summer solstice brought the hottest day in nearly two years.
SF News Same East Bay Suspect Allegedly Steals Two BMWs From Different Dealerships In a Week, Crashes One of Them An alleged identity fraud scammer managed to get two different East Bay dealerships to sell him BMWs with fake ID, but promptly crashed one of the two.
SF News Person Shot at Oakland's Wood Street Encampment, Dies A man was fatally shot Tuesday at the sprawling, multi-block Wood Street homeless encampment in West Oakland — and it's the second shooting to occur there in two months.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Michelin-Starred Marlena to Pop Up at Hotel Zeppelin; Hotel's Restaurant Rambler Remains Closed A temporary hotel restaurant hiatus in Union Square just came to our attention via an announcement of a pop-up happening there — which will feature Michelin newcomer of last year Marlena, the Bernal Heights home of which is undergoing a remodel.
SF News 24th and Mission Vending Laws Kick In, Smattering of Enforcement Observed Thus Far The rollout of the street vending “crackdown” hit the 24th and Mission Street corner bazaar last week, and while there’s been a bit of enforcement, the portal for vendor permit applications is reportedly not even working yet anyway.
SF News SFPD Now Says That 'About 17 Officers Were Injured' During Thursday's Warriors Celebrations In the Mission Without specifying any details about the injuries — and oddly we're only hearing about them five days later — the SFPD's Mission Station tweeted about multiple officers being injured during the hoopla in the Mission on June 16.
SF News Congress Steps In to Save Sequoia Trees, As Nearly 20% Have Been Killed By Wildfires California’s giant sequoia trees were once considered practically immune to wildfires. But after several thousand were killed by wildfires in recent years, a new bill in Washington hopes to protect and preserve the mighty sequoias.
SF News Early Monsoons In Southwest Bring Possibility of Thunderstorms In NorCal Moonsoonal moisture is on its way over California this week, which will bring the possibility of some light rain, and also, more ominously, lightning in some already fire-prone areas.
SF News Marin Kayaker Who Needed Coast Guard Rescue Last Year Attempts SF-to-Hawaii Solo Trip Once More At some point the Coast Guard has to be like "This guy again?", but a French-born kayaker with a custom-made vessel and an irrepressible desire to put himself in harm's way is attempting a solo journey across the Pacific for a second time.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: BART Saw More Riders Monday Than At Any Point In 27 Months BART saw around 200,000 riders for Monday's Warriors festivities, residents of 33 Tehama still have not been allowed home following flooding, and firefighters quickly tamped down a brush fire in Hunters Point Monday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: El Farolito Opens In North Beach There were a bunch of heat-related first-aid calls during the Warriors parade, a Spare the Air day has been declared for Tuesday, and North Beach now has its own El Farolito.
SF News GLIDE’s ‘Lunch With Warren Buffett’ Auction Fetches Record $19 Million The annual Glide auction of a lunch with legendary investor Warren Buffett just finished its last-ever bidding, and it goes out on a high note of raising $19 million for poverty and hunger programs.
Bay Area Sports Photos From the Warriors' Victory Parade Up Market Street In San Francisco Public Works will be cleaning up that blue and gold confetti for weeks, after a million fans came and were showered with about a million pounds of the stuff, alongside the Golden State Warriors and the team brass.
SF News Early June RSA Conference at Moscone Reportedly a ‘Hotbed for COVID-19,’ Attendees Call It ‘Super Spreader Event’ The “risk professionals” at a recent SF security conference may not have factored in the risk of a largely maskless event at the height of an Omicron surge, as hundreds of attendees say they caught the virus while networking to battle computer viruses.
SF News One Person Fatally Shot In the Marina District Sunday Night A shooting that apparently occurred in the middle of the street claimed one life Sunday night in the Marina District, just steps away from busy Chestnut Street.
