SF News Strongest Storm In a Quarter Century, Bomb Cyclone Surpasses Bay Area Predictions, Causes Havoc All Over While meteorologists on Sunday morning were still predicting large, but not record-breaking rain totals, a storm system rolled in off the Pacific and pummeled the Bay Area with way more rain than most of us were expecting.
SF News Landslide in Butte County Forces Part of Highway 70 to Close (Probably for a While) A huge landslide in the Feather River Canyon, between Jarbo Gap and Greenville Wye, has caused CHP to close Highway 70 at Deadwood Road. And judging by the size of the landslide, it's likely not to reopen anytime soon.
SF News Rainy Day Scenes: Scaffolding Collapses in SoMa, Falling Trees Cause Road Closures Across SF San Francisco is getting bombarded by record-breaking amounts of rain — which has caused a slew of infrastructural headaches, to say the least.
SF News Sunday Links: It's Only Going to Get Windier and Wetter Today Evacuation orders have been given for parts of San Mateo County, the Oakland Zoo and Alameda County Fair closed today amid the potentially dangerous weather conditions, and we can expect record rainfalls throughout the Bay Area today.
SF News Haight-Ashbury Shooting Rattles Neighborhood; Ritual Coffee, Nearby Cars Damaged Friday afternoon, the Haight-Ashbury erupted in gunfire when "multiple shots" were fired off Central Avenue, between Waller and Haight streets, leaving a Ritual Coffee Roasters location with a broken street-facing window and close by cars with bullet holes.
SF News You May Soon Be Able to Buy Dungeness Crab Right Off a Boat in SF If an updated proposal gets greenlit by the Port Commission, San Franciscans might have the chance to do something they previously couldn’t: Buy fresh, still-alive Dungeness crab — straight from commercial fishing vessels at Fisherman's Wharf.
SF News Saturday Links: Alameda County Fair Returns, Will Run Until Halloween A toppled tree killed a Santa Cruz driver Friday, a small 2.8-magnitude earthquake shook Contra Costa County earlier this morning, and the Alameda County Fair returned yesterday — running now until Halloween.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Wind Advisory Issued for Entire Bay Area on Sunday The National Weather Service has issued a Bay Area-wide Wind Advisory for Sunday, five NorCal counties are suing PG&E over the Dixie Fire, and no: Target isn't closing its Metreon location.
Arts & Entertainment Sci-Fi Author Frank Herbert Lived in This Potrero Hill House When He Wrote ‘Dune’ For $1.6 million, you can own the house where Frank Herbert wrote the 1965 novel ‘Dune,’ which has yet another Hollywood remake of it opening today.
SF News Flash Flood Watch Issued for Wildfire Burn Scar Areas Around Bay Area A flash flood watch has gone out for Sunday for burn scar areas in the North, South, and East Bay, with heavy rainfall expected and the possibility of mudslides and floods where things burned in 2020.
SF News In Holmes Trial, Ex-Pfizer Exec Testifies Holmes Swiped Pfizer Logo to Claim They Validated Her Tests Theranos sold Walgreens on their bogus blood test technology by claiming Pfizer had validated it. A Pfizer analyst says Holmes just did a ‘Right Click, Save As’ with the Pfizer logo.
Business & Tech Fired Trans Netflix Employee Says They Were Not Acting Surreptitiously With Data, But It Was About Content Equity The Black trans Netflix employee who was fired last week amid the internal uproar at the company over the transphobia in Dave Chappelle's latest comedy special has given a new interview to explain how things went down.
SF News YouTube Troll of ‘Change My Mind’ Meme Fame Airs Racist Tirade on KPIX’s Betty Yu A two-bit Howard Stern wannabe who gained brief internet fame over the “Change My Mind” meme in hot water again over a racist segment targeting KPIX reporter Betty Yu. ]
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chinatown BBQ Specialists Hing Lung Co. Expanding to Bernal With Go Duck Yourself A new restaurant specializing in Cantonese barbecue is coming to Bernal Heights next summer, and it's called Go Duck Yourself.
SF News Retired Oakland Police Captain Shot Six Times, Condition Critical A retired Oakland Police Department captain, known for working much of the last decade on the city's Ceasefire strategy to reduce gun violence, was shot six times Thursday in an attempted robbery at a West Oakland gas station.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Movie Director Shot By Alec Baldwin Is SF-Based A couple describes seeing Phish fan Ryan Prosser leap to his death at the Chase Center, SF-based writer-director Joel Souza is recovering from injuries after being shot by a prop gun that killed his cinematographer Thursday, and supporters of DA Chesa Boudin held an anti-recall rally.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Retired Oakland Cop and 'Ceasefire' Head Shot During Attempted Robbery A retired OPD captain and head of the city's Ceasefire program was shot in a gun battle at a gas station Thursday, Harlan Kelly pleaded not guilty to new charges, and the Caldor Fire has reached 100% containment.
SF News Los Gatos ‘Cool Mom’ Denied Bail, Now Accused of $120,000 Embezzlement Scheme In a story that promises to get stranger every time we check back in, teen sex party mom Shannon O’Connor (or Bruga?), has been denied bail, and additionally stands accused of bilking a Santa Clara-based wireless firm out of $120,000.
SF News One DoorDash Carjacking Kidnapper Indicted on 12 Counts, Other to be Arraigned Friday Morning The duo who in February allegedly stole a DoorDash delivery van with two toddlers in the backseat have been in County Jail ever since, and their grand jury indictments are being handed down this week.
SF News Cause of Death Finally Revealed In Case of Former SF Couple and Infant On Sierra Hike The cause of death has finally been determined in the case of the Mariposa County couple, their one-year-old daughter, and their dog, and it was not toxic algae.
Business & Tech Oversight Board Unhappy That Facebook Hid How It Handles VIP Accounts, Says It Will Review 'XCheck' System The ostensibly independent Facebook Oversight Board is pointing back to a Wall Street Journal story last month and basically saying Facebook employees concealed a vital detail from them in the Trump suspension case, and this whole policy around VIP accounts needs to be audited.
SF News Tree Comes Crashing Down in Japantown During Early Morning Storms The badly needed rainstorms bring with them falling ficus trees, and this one did some serious damage to the Sutter Street sidewalk early Thursday morning.
SF News Scientist Resigns from UC Berkeley Center Amidst 'Cancel Culture' Debate A UC Berkeley climate scientist very publicly resigned as director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center this week after the center refused to host a speech by a scientist who has criticized affirmative action.
SF News La Niña Winter Might Improve Drought In NorCal, Says NOAA The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's winter weather forecast for the U.S. is out, and somewhat surprisingly, it's predicting some drought improvement for the northern part of California.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Thursday Morning What's Up: Pleasant Hill In-N-Out Also Violating Vaccine Rule An announcement about the family found dead on a trail in Mariposa County is coming today, SF city leaders celebrate the first phase of safety improvements on Geary Boulevard, and the In-N-Out in Pleasant Hill has been fined for not checking vaccine cards.
