SF News Lightning-Caused Fires Threaten California's Giant Sequoias In Two National Parks Two wildfires are threatening two national parks in central California that are home to the biggest trees on the planet, giant sequoias. Sequoia National Park was shut down Monday and its staff evacuated due to the approaching KNP Complex fires — known separately as the Colony and Paradise fires.
SF News Woman Dragged By Train to Her Death at Powell Street BART With Dog Leash Caught In Door A woman was dragged into the BART tracks and killed Monday afternoon in a tragic incident involving a dog leash that was wrapped around her waist.
SF Politics How Soon Can We Call This Election and Move On? Hopefully — hopefully! — the massive number of mail-in ballots that counties have already begun processing will yield results Tuesday night that will put this recall to bed, one way or another... but more than likely one way.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Human Skeletal Remains Found In Point Reyes A federal judge questioned the PG&E troubleman who first spotted the Dixie Fire for over two hours Monday, QAnon believers think the recall election is being rigged, and the city of Pleasanton has ended its weekend outdoor dining program on its Main Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Fatality Leads to BART Delays President Biden spoke about climate change at stops in Idaho and California today, BART was experiencing major delays after a fatality at Powell Street, and Newsom continues to look like he will remain governor after tomorrow.
SF News Video: Huge San Jose Sideshow Results in 205 Citations, a Mere One Arrest San Jose continues to draw more and larger sideshows than even SF or Oakland, and a five-minute video has emerged from this weekend’s dangerous, donut-skidmark affair.
Arts & Entertainment Chase Center Announces Vaccine Requirement For All Warriors Games and Concerts You won't be able to show proof of a negative COVID test to attend Chase Center events this fall — you will have to show proof that you are fully vaccinated.
SF News Is Chalking Tires By Meter Maids Unconstitutional? One Lawsuit Filed In SF Says Yes A wave of lawsuits against cities over the practice of marking car tires with chalk to catch violators of time-restricted parking zones has come to San Francisco, and one woman is suing the city for $50 million over the practice.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Hang On For 41-33 Win Over Detroit Lions In Season Opener After an impressive first half saw the San Francisco 49ers take a 24-point lead deep into the fourth quarter, two late fumbles allowed the Lions to put up 16 points in the waning moments of a game that wasn’t as close as the score indicates.
SF News Two Men Killed On I-80 In Berkeley While Arguing Over Crash Two men who exited their cars to argue about a traffic incident early Sunday morning on I-80 in the East Bay were struck and killed by a passing vehicle, the driver of which was trying to swerve around their stopped cars.
Arts & Entertainment The New Name For Squaw Valley? Palisades Tahoe A year after the Squaw Valley Ski Resort announced it would be dropping its racist and sexist name, the corporation has revealed what its new name will be: Palisades Tahoe.
SF News Now Rose McGowan Is Campaigning For Larry Elder, Claims Newsom's Wife Tried to Silence Her About Weinstein Actress Rose McGowan participated in a campaign event for Republican gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder over the weekend in which she made claims about Jennifer Siebel Newsom calling her on behalf of Harvey Weinstein's lawyer.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Biden Joins Newsom In SoCal Ahead of Recall President Joe Biden will be in SoCal campaigning with Newsom today, the PG&E worker who first spotted the Dixie Fire is being called before a judge, and a SETI telescope array is now being threatened by the Dixie Fire.
SF News Salesforce to Help Employees Flee Texas Amid Abortion Ban Texas, a state that's becoming increasingly purple, recently enacted one of the most aggressive anti-abortion laws seen in the United States since Roe v. Wade. But Salesforce employees who work in the Lone Star State will have their employer's help in relocating, should they wish.
SF News Someone Started a Brush Fire in Santa Rosa. A Group of Good People Stopped It From Getting Worse. Over a million acres have already burned in Northern California this wildfire season — a figure that meant nothing to one Bay Area arsonist on Saturday. Thankfully, several good samaritans stopped that figure from growing any more than it needed to.
SF News Sunday Links: Unkown Explosion in San Francisco Causes Shelter-in-Place Order A Saturday explosion in Oceanview led to some residents having to shelter in place, you can thank a collection of low-lying clouds for today’s sunrise in the Bay Area looking particularly gorgeous, and no: Apple isn't moving its Silicon Valley headquarters to Texas.
SF News Yep... San Francisco's Cable Cars Are Still Out of Service Because of an "electrical issue" earlier in the week, San Francisco's iconic cable cars are currently corralled inside SFMTA's "Barn" — with still no operational date in sight.
SF News Dixie and Caldor Fires Each Reach 60% Containment Saturday morning, a milestone in fighting two of Northern California's most pressing wildfires — the Dixie Fire and Caldor Fire — was achieved: successfully containing at least 60% of each blaze.
Bay Area Sports San Francisco 49ers Season Preview: What To Expect This Year With the NFL season having officially begun last night with the Buccaneers defeating the Cowboys 31-29 in a thrilling opener, the San Francisco 49ers get set to kick-off their own campaign Sunday in Detroit against the Lions. And the excitement running through the franchise is palpable.
SF News Saturday Links: The Bay Area Remembers 9/11 on Its 20th Anniversary A woman spotted a mountain lion on the UC Santa Cruz campus, this local nonprofit is helping displaced people from the homeless camp on Apple-owned land find shelter, and on this day 20 years ago: Two Boeing 767 planes struck the Twin Towers — killing 2,996 people.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose to Soon Mandate Vaccines for City Workers San Jose is expected to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for City employees, Apple continues its tug-of-war with neighbors of a homeless encampment in San Jose, and the CDC has new data showing that unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who've been vaccinated.
SF News SF Weekly Taking an ‘Indefinite Hiatus,’ Draw Your Own Conclusions About Its Future Just months from the paper’s 40th anniversary, SF Weekly is being put “on hold,” and the continued existence of the city’s last alt-weekly is a questionable proposition at best.
SF News Preston Calls to Halt Japantown Hotel Conversion to Homeless Housing, Proposes Other Hotel Sites Many Japantown residents want no part of seeing a luxury hotel there converted to supportive housing. Their supervisor Dean Preston takes up their cause, earning him grief from across the housing discourse spectrum.
Arts & Entertainment Institute of Contemporary Art to Open in San Francisco's Dogpatch Next Year San Francisco is getting an Institute of Contemporary Art — a new contemporary art museum without a permanent collection — in the already artsy Dogpatch neighborhood, and it's being partially bankrolled by the same folks behind the Minnesota Street Project.
SF News Stunning Cole Valley 'Tree House' Sells For $5.6 Million — $2 Million Over Asking A 1970s-era home tucked up near the end of Stanyan Street in Cole Valley — on a hill with sweeping city and Bay views — just sold for $2.1 million over its asking price after receiving 15 offers.
