SF News SF Dispensaries Gear Up for Green Wednesday, the ‘Black Friday of Weed’ The day before Thanksgiving is the second-busiest cannabis shopping day of the year, and we recommend you shop early, or pre-order online.
SF News Map: Everywhere You Can Get a Free COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Shot in SF There are 109 locations in San Francisco providing booster vaccine shots to the general public, and quite a few of them do accept drop-ins.
Bay Area Sports Plans For Redeveloped Oakland Coliseum Include NFL and WNBA Teams, New Convention Center A group that has been selected by the City of Oakland to redevelop the Oakland Coliseum and Arena properties has big ambitions for the future complex, which include bringing both a new NFL team to Oakland and establishing a new women's basketball team in the city.
SF News Oakland Police Head to Sacramento and Houston to Arrest Three Men Suspected In Gas Station Robbery/Shooting Oakland police on Monday announced three arrests in connection with a violent armed robbery attempt at a West Oakland gas station that ended with one of the suspects shot and the victim critically wounded.
Arts & Entertainment Roving Jazz Concerts Bebopping Around City In Bay Area Jazz Mobile The “guerrilla jazz” van known as the Bay Area Jazz Mobile is popping up in parks and parking lots, and giving paid gigs to local jazz musicians.
SF News 'Caravans' of Cars With Some Armed Suspects Targeted Oakland Cannabis Businesses Amid Weekend Robberies Mobs of organized thieves targeted retail businesses in multiple corners of the Bay Area. But some incidents in Oakland suggest a more loose affiliation between suspects, and group tactics that perhaps came together on social media.
SF News Amtrak Train Crashes Into Big Rig In East Bay, No Passengers Injured A westbound Amtrak train crashed and the engine derailed after striking a semi truck that became stuck on train tracks in San Pablo Monday night, but thankfully there were no serious injuries.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Masks Return In Santa Cruz Amid Rising Cases SF DA Chesa Boudin is announcing felony charges today for eight suspects caught in Friday's retail robbery spree, PG&E just got fined again by the CPUC, and Santa Cruz County has reinstated its mask mandate amid rising COVID cases.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Two Men Killed In San Francisco Over the Weekend SF and federal authorities busted an alleged weapons trafficking ring, Hillary Clinton came to SF on Sunday to promote her new novel, and the Newsom family is off to Mexico for the Thanksgiving holiday.
SF News Tesla Fremont Plant Employee Sues Over ‘Rampant Sexual Harassment’ At the Facility An employee at the Tesla Fremont plant says she was routinely groped, catcalled, and propositioned on the job, even by her superiors, in a new sexual harassment lawsuit.
SF News California Boasts Lowest COVID Test-Positivity Rate In Nation; Bay Area Back in Yellow Tier San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area have bounced back into the CDC's yellow tier indicating "moderate" COVID transmission, down from the orange tier — and following a number of weeks when San Francisco County has bounced between the two.
SF News Newsom Says Organized Smash-and-Grab Robbers Will Be Punished, Says Mayors Must 'Step Up' Governor Gavin Newsom said Monday he was speaking as a victimized business owner himself when he made comments about last weekend's swarm of organized smash-and-grab robberies around the Bay.
Arts & Entertainment 90s Nostalgia Mousses Up as 'Nash Bridges’ Reboot Premieres Saturday The trailer for the ‘Nash Bridges’ reunion just dropped before Saturday’s premiere, and it might be worth tuning in just to see Willie Brown in a pot dispensary.
SF News Up to 5% of World's Giant Sequoia Trees Killed This Year In KNP Complex and Windy Fires Collectively, the KNP Complex and Windy fires burned over 185,000 acres in California — damaging at least 28 giant sequoia groves. And it's now believed that around 5% of the world's giant sequoias died as a result.
Business & Tech DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Trans Woman Heads Into Monday Night's 'Jeopardy!' a Three-Day Champion An Oakland-based computer scientist and standup comedian is Monday's returning champion on 'Jeopardy!', and she's hoping to champion trans awareness while also making a bit more money to pad her already considerable total.
SF News SF to Hand Out 5,500 Free Turkeys for Thanksgiving The San Francisco Turkey Giveaway is handing out free turkeys to gobble up for the 15th year in a row, this year with 5,500 birds being given out for Thanksgiving.
SF News Monday Morning Happenings: Three Racehorse Deaths In a Week at Golden Gate Fields The smash-and-grab robbery swarm hit a mall in Hayward Sunday night, three racehorses have died in a week at Golden Gate Fields, and Dungeness crab season will open for waters north of the Bay Area on Dec. 1.
SF News San Francisco Opens Winter Shelter Program Through March of 2022 Now in its 33rd year, the Interfaith Winter Shelter Program opened Sunday — and is expected to conclude on March 26, 2022 — increasing SF's temporary housing capacity for people experiencing homelessness.
SF News Three Suspects Arrested In Walnut Creek Nordstrom Looting That Involved 80 Burglars Just a day after San Francisco's spree of rampant looting, the Nordstrom in Walnut Creek's Broadway Plaza saw over six dozen people plunder the luxury goods store last night.
SF News Sunday Links: SF to Limit Car Access to Union Square Following Night of Citywide Looting San Francisco will crackdown on car traffic through Union Square after Friday’s widespread looting, a Saturday police killing in Oakland left one alleged carjacker dead, and FYI: many more booster shot appointments came online today in SF.
SF News New Analysis Shows Almost 900 Bay Area Neighborhoods Are Inside 'Food Deserts' The pandemic pushed local food banks to the brim as they dealt with record numbers of requests. COVID-19 has also stretched the Bay Area's growing food access crisis, leaving a large amount of the region's population more than a half-mile away from the nearest grocery store.
SF News [Update] Multiple Union Square Stores Hit By Smash-and-Grab Burglars Friday More than a dozen individuals partook in a brazen burglary of the Louis Vuitton location at 233 Geary Street Friday night — taking most of the store's on-display inventory before police arrived. And that wasn't the only store robbed.
SF News Saturday Links: Man Shot and Killed by SF Police Friday at Residential Hotel Identified The Rittenhouse verdict drew large protests in Oakland Friday night, CHP is reporting that a vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian in Oakland on I-880, and 41-year-old Ajmal Amani was the victim of the police killing at the CW Hotel near 5th and Folsom streets yesterday.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Former Bay Area Professor Charged With Wildlands Arson Former Santa Clara University professor Stephen Maynard was indicted on charges that he set four wildfires inside national forests in California, the FDA has expanded COVID-19 booster eligibility to all adults in the US, and it’s not just you: SF's Victorians are "graying."
