SF News Day Around the Bay: Crazy-Wet December Could Help Drought Recovery The New Year’s Eve event cancellations are rolling in, Tahoe is a mess but people keep driving there anyway, but the flip side is that snowpack levels are looking shockingly encouraging.
SF News Selling ‘Meth by the Pound’ Nets Local Man Nine-Year Prison Sentence The sentence may have been for more than just selling meth, though, as 48-year-old Andrew Quintero also skipped bail with 28 grand in cash, a gun, and more meth.
SF News Millennium Tower Engineers Propose New Fix After Last Fix Backfired, Caused More Sinking The infamous sinking luxury tower is now tilting 26 inches, after a previous fix caused even more leaning, so engineers are instituting yet another controversial new fix.
Arts & Entertainment Should We Go to That Big SF New Year’s Party? We Asked Leading UCSF Doctors Several New Year’s events with hundreds or even thousands of guests are still planning to pop the corks. Infectious disease experts worry this means we’ll drop the ball and ring in new superspreader-y times.
Business & Tech Apple Reportedly Doles Out Special Six-Figure Bonuses to Engineers to Keep Them From Getting Poached By Meta Apple is reportedly giving out unusually big bonuses in the form of stock to select groups of engineers in the company, in an effort to stop some attrition that is happening to Facebook/Meta.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink You Can Buy Fresh Local Dungeness Crab Off Boats at Fisherman's Wharf Starting at 3 p.m. Wednesday marks the official — very late — start to Dungeness crab fishing season for the coastal waters off the San Francisco Peninsula, Marin County, and Sonoma County. And that mean's today you'll also get to buy crab directly from crab fishermen at Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Santa Rosa Rideshare Stabbing Suspect Found Just Strolling Golden Gate Bridge A 19-year-old Santa Rosa man accused of stabbing his rideshare driver in the neck and elbow on Christmas Day has been arrested after being apprehended walking along the Golden Gate Bridge.
SF News Castro Valley Man Drives 15 Hours, Via Las Vegas, to Avoid Tahoe Snow Traffic A Bay Area man and his girlfriend took the really long way home after spending Christmas weekend in the Tahoe area, in order to avoid horrendous traffic and closed freeways due to the snow.
SF News [Update] SF and Other Bay Area Counties Begin Rescinding Mask-Order Exceptions Amid Omicron Surge You'll need to put your masks back on in gyms, offices, and places of worship in San Francisco and Contra Costa counties, and other counties with similar exceptions in place since October are signaling similar moves.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Search Continues For Truckee Skier Who Disappeared Extreme weather conditions have hampered a search for a missing skier in Tahoe, the SFPD is investigating a home-invasion robbery of a 90-year-old woman, and more venues cancel NYE events.
SF News Day Around the Bay: NFL Legend John Madden Has Died An SF navigation center has seen an outbreak of nearly 50 COVID-19 cases, today may prove to be historically cold, and former Raiders coach and beloved NFL broadcaster John Madden has passed away.
SF News Breaking: SF Cancels New Year’s Eve Fireworks Display Amidst Skyrocketing COVID-19 Case Count The official New Year’s Eve fireworks display was abruptly canceled late Tuesday afternoon, and don’t be surprised if other planned New Year’s Eve parties start getting canceled en masse over the next 48 hours.
SF Politics Local Man Can Be Criminally Prosecuted For ‘Slash Your Throat’ Message to Mitch McConnell, Court Rules A federal appeals court has ruled that criminal charges can apply to a Bay Area man who emailed Mitch McConnell saying “the resistance is coming to DC to slash your throat,” and “You will die in the street,” along with some other choice profanities.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink To-Go Cocktails Become Fully Legal Statewide on Jan. 1, But With a Bunch of New Rules That Make the Law Pointless On Saturday, the new California law making to-go cocktails a fully legal and legit thing statewide will take effect — and it will stay in effect for five years, pending extensions.
SF News Muni and Caltrain Free Again on New Year’s Eve, BART Hours Extended (But Still Full Price) Both Muni and Caltrain will offer free service on New Year's Eve, and while BART will not be free, they’re running an extra 1 a.m. train.
Business & Tech DoorDash Engineers Furious They Have to Deliver Food Once a Month The delivery service DoorDash is requiring employees with cushy desk jobs to perform a couple deliveries every month. Some of the cushy-desk-job types are throwing fits about it.
SF News Married Couple in Their 60s Identified as Victims of Flood Waters in Millbrae The two people who tragically died last week when their car became submerged in rapidly rising floodwaters beneath a Caltrain overpass in Millbrae have been identified as a married couple who lived nearby.
SF News SF Sees Four Consecutive Record-Breaking Days of COVID Cases; Hospitalizations Rise Across State The last four daily totals of new COVID infections from the San Francisco Department of Public Health are higher than any others previously in the pandemic, as Omicron rages across the region. But should we be as anxious about this as in previous surges?
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Snow Fell In Northern Napa Today Snow fell in Angwin and some other lowish-lying places around the Bay this morning, lots of people remain stranded in Tahoe due to snow, and some bars around the Castro have temporarily closed due to Omicron worries.
SF News Day Around the Bay: CDC Lowers COVID-19 Isolation Period to Five Days for the Asymptomatic Oakland is beefing up police presence around Lake Merritt, Google will pay a $13 million settlement for stealing people's WiFi passwords, and the COVID-19 isolation period has been reduced to five days — but only if you’re asymptomatic.
SF Politics New State Assembly District Redraws Are In, Committee Scraps 'Majority-White' AD-17 Map The final redistricting maps are in, and the assembly district David Campos and Matt Haney are running for is slightly reconfigured, but not as whitewashed as originally proposed.
SF News Two Highway Patrol Officers Injured in Bay Point When SUV Plows Into Them After chasing down a blue Subaru Outback early Sunday morning in Bay Point, two officers got out of their cruisers to arrest the suspect. The suspect promptly mowed them down and drove off.
SF News This Is Officially the Wettest Fall/Early Winter In San Francisco Since 1983 Thanks to atmospheric rivers and cyclone remnants pummeling the NorCal coast since October 1, this is officially the wettest water year to date since 1983 — and this is great news for the drought.
SF News Quelle Surprise! Cruise Ships Once Again Walloped With COVID-19 Outbreaks, Passengers Can’t Disembark In another sign of wealth absolutely not correlating with intelligence, multiple cruise ships are swimming in COVID-19, as outbreaks among passengers and crew have ships of fools unable to disembark at their destinations.
SF News Boogie-Boarder Killed By Great White Shark on Central Coast On Christmas Eve, a 31-year-old man was killed in an apparent shark attack while in the water in Morro Bay. It's the first fatal shark attack of 2021 in the U.S.
