SF News Three-Alarm Fire In West Portal Leads to Partial Building Collapse A fire broke out on a roof Monday on the commercial corridor of San Francisco's West Portal Avenue, and so far no injuries have been reported but the fire has caused a partial collapse of a building.
SF Politics Is It Sexist to Call Out Feinstein's Memory Decline When Male Senators Have Stayed In Office Much Longer? The weekend brought even more press attention to Senator Dianne Feinstein and her reported cognitive decline. And some are suggesting that laying open this open secret to the public is sexist at its core.
SF Politics Whack Vallejo City Council Meeting Goes Off Rails, Mayor Threatens to Arrest Councilmember What started as a discussion about a new Vallejo police station turned into free-for-all with one public commenter being physically hauled out by police, then threats from the mayor to do the same to a councilmember, who in turn speculated about certain parts of the mayor's anatomy.
SF News Thieves Use Stolen Tractor to Try to Rip ATM Out of Wall In East Bay, Fail Some unsuccessful thieves in Brentwood used heavy machinery to try to steal an ATM from a bank on Sunday, and they failed to do so but caused a lot of damage.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Tent Fire Spreads to Building at Church and 15th A tent fire spread to an apartment building at Church and 15th streets Monday morning, four people were stabbed in the Tenderloin, and two gay dads say their kids were verbally assaulted by a raging and bigoted man on an Amtrak train bound for the Bay Area.
SF News Photos: Thousands Crowd Dolores Park for First IRL Hunky Jesus, Foxy Mary Competitions in Two Years Under clear skies and plenty of sunshine, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence held their Sister Easter: Back to Our Hold Habits! celebration on Sunday afternoon — the first in-person Easter event the Sisters have held since 2019 — attracting thousands.
SF News Oakland Pivots Certain 911 Calls to Mental Health Crews, Helping Better Address Non-Violent Emergencies Launched this month, Oakland's MACRO program has responded to specific 911 calls related to non-violent emergencies — like mental health issues, wellness checks, and panhandling — helping to de-escalate particular crises without the need for police.
SF News New Report Finds SFO Has Longest 'Line Times' of Any Airport on West Coast Standing in snaking lines that seem to coil into infinity when at the airport is enough to frustrate even the most patient of people. Per a new report, the queues at SFO are among the longest of any domestic airport, which might also make it one of the more maddening airports in America.
SF News Sunday Links: A Familiar Easter Sunday Returns to San Francisco A bevy of in-person Easter Sunday celebrations are happening across San Francisco today, yesterday's spat of moderate rain brought a good amount of precipitation to the Bay Area, and a mass shooting inside a South Carolina mall has left at least twelve people injured.
SF News Oakland Records 36th and 37th Homicides of 2022 in Fatal Saturday Morning Shootout Oakland police responded to reports of gunfire on the 900 block of 77th Avenue Saturday around 5:00 a.m., where one man was initially found to have suffered from multiple gunshot wounds; he was later pronounced dead at the scene.
SF News Saturday Links: Expect Much Drier Weather by This Afternoon Across Bay Area A person was rescued from the side of a cliff at Thornton State Beach in Daly City Friday, Oakland's school mask mandate will be lifted Monday, and though the past twelve hours have seen moderate rain showers drench the Bay Area, they'll pass later on today.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Eataly Looking to Fill Hundreds of Jobs at Soon-to-Open Santa Clara Food Hall Novato High School was given the all-clear after a bomb threat, five Oakland cops were found wrongly fired in the fatal shooting of a homeless man, and Eataly is gearing up to open in Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair center.
SF News Oakland’s Top Cop Says Lenient Bail is To Blame for Oakland Crime Spike Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is pleading with the Alameda County Superior Court to end the pandemic-era loosening of bail fees, saying this is responsible for an alleged Oakland crime spike.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Pizza Pop-Up Hit Outta Sight to Go Brick and Mortar In Civic Center A former sous chef at Mister Jiu's who famously came back from the dead after a sudden and random heart attack in the kitchen while prepping for New Year's Eve in 2017 is turning his successful pandemic pizza pop-up into a full-fledged business.
SF News Mission Street GameStop Hit by Flash Mob Robberies Three Times in Six Days The flash mob-style burglaries we saw in Union Square last November popped up again on Mission Street, as the GameStop store suffered a reported three robberies in less than one week.
Business & Tech Twitter Board Adopts 'Poison Pill' Strategy to Fend Off Elon Musk; Another Big Shareholder Also Just Upped Their Stake Twitter's board of directors voted unanimously Friday to adopt a limited duration shareholder rights plan, or "poison pill," that would immediately dilute the shares of any shareholder who bought 15% or more of existing shares — likely thwarting, for now, a takeover bid by Elon Musk.
SF News A Whole Bunch of Electric Vehicle Chargers Could be Coming to SF Gas Stations and Auto Shops The SF Planning Commission moved forward in approving an armada of electric vehicle charging stations — a “public charging network” which could be coming to an auto body shop or gas station near you.
SF Politics Dianne Feinstein Defends Herself as Chronicle Editorial Board Calls on Other Democrats to Get Her to Retire The Chronicle Editorial Board says the time is drawing nigh for tough talk with Feinstein, and "denial is a hallmark of those suffering from memory loss and attendant illnesses."
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: California Won't Mandate Vaccine for Schoolkids California is backing away from requiring COVID vaccines for kids to attend school this fall, BART is expanding its use of license-plate readers at parking areas, and a bar fight in Petaluma turned into a shooting Thursday night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: People Are Already Jockeying for Dianne Feinstein’s (Still Occupied) Senate Seat Thursday's rainfall is nothing compared to a storm that’s coming Saturday, a guilty murder verdict finally came down in the case of a victim stabbed 39 times, and replacement names are already being floated after new reports of Dianne Feinstein’s “cognitive decline.”
SF News SF Suing Walgreens for Creating an Opioid ‘Public Menace,’ and This Sure Changes the Whole Walgreens Discourse Could Walgreens be responsible for the very crime and drug issues they say are driving them out of San Francisco? A lawsuit from the city begs that question, and blames opioid overprescription.
SF News Laguna Honda Hospital Sees Medicare and Medicaid Funding Threatened After Violations San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is once again in trouble with regulators at the state and federal level, leaving it in a precarious financial situation — however city health officials insist the skilled nursing facility is not in danger of closing.
Arts & Entertainment Orphaned Baby Mountain Lion Improving After Blood Transfusion at Oakland Zoo An orphaned mountain lion cub who was found in San Mateo County last week and was brought to the Oakland Zoo for care and treatment is showing marked improvement as of Thursday, following a blood transfusion.
Arts & Entertainment Apartment Sadness: New Half-Million-Dollar Studios Have Beds That Drop From Ceilings Well, the owners and marketers of the new Serif condos on mid-Market have come up with a novel solution for the smallness of their studio units: optional furniture add-ons that include mechanical beds that rise up and stow themselves away on the ceiling.
SF News New Report Details Curious ‘Algorithm’ That Decides Who Gets Homeless Housing Based on How Much Trauma They’ve Endured There are some pretty personal questions that go into deciding who gets supportive housing in this town, as a new report details the “algorithm” that sizes up how much trauma applicants have endured.
