SF News Bay Area Ukrainians Are Signing Up to Head Home and Defend Their Country After President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put out a call for Ukrainian-Americans to come home and fight — complete with a handy QR code to register — around 1,400 Bay Area Ukrainians are trying to do just that.
SF News Gas Prices Jump Above $5/Gal In the Bay Area For the First Time Ever It has happened. Russia's war on Ukraine has pushed gas prices north of $5 for much of the Bay Area and California. And for people who are suddenly commuting back to work... maybe this will bolster BART ridership?
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Enormous Boulders Fall, Block Highway 50 Two people were shot in the Fillmore District Thursday night, "cabin-sized" boulders fell and blocked Highway 50 in both directions near South Lake Tahoe, and Apple sets a return-to-the-office date of April 11 with everyone expected three days per week by May 23.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pointless Fight Fan Elon Musk Challenges UAW to Pointless Fight A Ukrainian nuclear power plant is reportedly on fire after a Russian attack, a new sobriety meetup group is catering to SF food and beverage industry workers, and Elon Musk is daring the United Auto Workers to just come and try to unionize his Tesla plants.
SF News Sherri Papini, the NorCal Woman at Center of Bizarre 2016 'Gone Girl' Kidnapping, Arrested By Feds For Making It All Up It's been over five years since a 34-year-old mother of two suddenly disappeared while on a morning jog near her Redding-area home and then turned up, bruised and "branded," by the side of a road 22 days later. The story always seemed fishy, and it was, the feds say!
Arts & Entertainment The Pride Weekend ‘People’s March’ Will Return This Year, Possibly In Direct Competition With the SF Pride Parade San Francisco could be a two Pride Parade town this year, as the upstart People’s March on Polk Street is planning to return — on the same day as the SF Pride Parade, and possibly even the same time.
SF News Mayor Breed Would Like You Back Downtown Working in the Office Again, Thank You Very Much The mayor wants businesses to take a “pledge” to return their workers to offices, in a new Welcome Back to SF campaign that’s long on business interests, and short on public health concerns.
SF News Test Ride: The New Treasure Island Ferry Is Awesome, Though Often Late, and Generally Pretty Much Empty We’ve got pictures and video from the stunningly scenic Treasure Island Ferry ride, which is not exactly running on a tight schedule, and the crew often outnumbers actual passengers.
SF News [Update] Man Dies In Stabbing Near Mission and 14th Streets; Another Dies In SoMa Stabbing San Francisco police are investigating a homicide that occurred Wednesday night in the Mission District.
SF News UC Berkeley Loses Court Fight, Will Have to Cap Enrollment at 2020 Level The University of California just lost one of its appeals to the state Supreme Court, which means it will have to withhold around 5,000 acceptance letters that it was intending to send out to incoming first-year students in the next few weeks.
SF News Monterey Sheriffs Question Assault Suspect, Find 80 Firearms and 50,000 Rounds of Ammo What started as questioning over the alleged sexual assault of a minor turned into a trove of guns, ammo, and prescription narcotics, and as you can imagine, this Pebble Beach suspect is now in jail.
SF News Newsom Proposes 'Care Court' to Compel Mentally Ill Into Treatment Governor Gavin Newsom, who as mayor of San Francisco over a decade ago championed a controversial policy for the city's poor dubbed Care Not Cash, is now proposing a new solution for the problem of untreated mental illness in the streets of California cities.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Thunderstorms, Hail, and Rain Thunder and lightning have come with the current weather system blanketing the Bay Area, SFPD Chief Bill Scott apologized again about the rape-kit DNA scandal, and the victim in Tuesday's Monte Rio homicide was the suspect's father.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Asking Rents Tick Up, SF Apartment Listings Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels An Oakland suspect in an allegedly stolen van died in a fire following a police helicopter pursuit, a former UFC champ is charged with attempted murder in the South Bay, and asking rents continue to tick up in SF as the number of apartment listings returns to pre-pandemic levels.
Bay Area Sports Stanford Women's Soccer Star Goalie Found Dead in Dorm Room, Had Been on 2019 National Championship Team Star goalie Katie Meyer won the Stanford Cardinal women the 2019 NCAA with heroic saves in a shootout, but was found dead in her dorm Tuesday. She was 22.
Business & Tech Google Tells Workers It's Back-to-the-Office Time Starting April 4 There have been some false alarms and variant-related surprises in the past, but it could be that Spring 2022 will usher in a new late-pandemic phase of workers grudgingly returning to cubicles and conference rooms in SF and Silicon Valley.
SF Politics Emergency Paid Sick Leave Could Be Permanent in San Francisco Paid leave during a health crisis could soon be a basic human right in San Francisco.
Arts & Entertainment Berkeley Falcon Watchers In Delighted Shock as Annie the Peregrine Falcon Returns to Campanile The Berkeley falcon soap opera takes another twist! After a mysterious and totally uncharacteristic absence of over a week, Annie the peregrine falcon is back and getting ready to breed with Grinnell once again.
SF News Sup. Preston Seeks To Close Rent-Control Loophole That’s Leading to 182% Rent Increases An affordable housing nonprofit ironically called HumanGood has announced 182% rent increases for some tenants thanks to a HUD loophole, but Supervisor Dean Preston has introduced an ordinance to prevent this.
SF News New Study: COVID Can Infect Men's Genitals, Cause Infertility and Erectile Dysfunction It's been some months since Nicki Minaj and others amplified the falsehood that COVID vaccines made men's testicles swell up. And now some researchers have found that the COVID-19 virus gets into the penis, prostate, and testicles.
SF News Berkeley Yoga Instructor Fired For Helping Boyfriend Run Anti-Semitic Website The same group that spread “the COVID agenda is Jewish” flyers across the Bay Area is linked to a popular Berkeley yoga instructor, and her Jewish boss had to fire her amidst a growing public relations mess.
SF News Theranos Exec Sunny Balwani's Fraud Trial Kicks Off Just In Time for Hulu's Elizabeth Holmes Series 'The Dropout' Hulu's new series about Elizabeth Holmes and the Theranos disaster, The Dropout, premieres Thursday. And then next week, Holmes's former lover and business partner, Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani, heads to trial.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF School Board Approves 300 Layoffs The SF school board voted to lay off 300 district staffers to close a budget gap, a homicide suspect was arrested in Sonoma County following a tense day in Monte Rio, and SF Mayor London Breed is pressing the school district to lift its mask mandate along with the state.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bernal Hill Rock Stands in Solidarity With Ukraine Opening Day is officially canceled as the MLB lockout morass continues, KTVU’s Rob Roth signs off tonight after a remarkable 38-year career, and the Bernal Hill Rock gets a new Ukrainian paint job that tells a Russian ship what it can go do.
SF Politics Chinatown Plastic Bat Attack Victim Drops Lawsuit Against Chesa Boudin After explosive allegations against DA Chesa Boudin’s office wilted under scrutiny, a 69-year-old Vietnamese American man has dropped his lawsuit claiming that Boudin violated his rights, and both sides are taking conciliatory tones.
