SF News Day Around the Bay: Grandmother Killed By 8-Year-Old Driving Golf Cart There's a new COVID outbreak at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, an East Bay grandmother was tragically killed by her 8-year-old grandson on a golf cart, and Sup. Peskin is calling for a new hearing about the Millennium Tower and its sinking.
SF News Nutty Local Archbishop Given Another Op-Ed to Whine About Biden and Pelosi Serial COVID-19 safety protocol violator Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone insists he is more pro-life than you, despite all the preventable outbreaks in his diocese, and uses the new Texas abortion law to argue that both Biden and Pelosi cannot be good Catholics and support abortion rights.
Arts & Entertainment SF-Themed Circus Show Preps for Opening at Club Fugazi, Will Serve Liguria Bakery Focaccia and Other Snacks 'Dear San Francisco: A High-Flying Love Story,' the new show from Pickle Family Circus heir Gypsy Snider and co-artistic director Shana Carroll, is readying for its first previews at Club Fugazi in North Beach later this month, and they gave a sneak preview to some members of the press last week.
Arts & Entertainment ‘Renegade’ Burning Man Angers Sheriffs, But Draws 20,000, Including Paris Hilton and Diplo Post-Burning Man photos are flooding social media as they do after every Labor Day, and this year’s ‘Rogue’ burn drew larger crowds than expected — but also appears to have pissed off a number of Nevada locals.
SF Politics Biden and Harris Are Headed to California to Campaign Against the Recall Vice President Kamala Harris is headed back to California this week to give a boost to the "No" campaign in the gubernatorial recall, and President Joe Biden is planning to do the same early next week.
SF Politics Original Organizer of Newsom Recall Effort Now Has COVID One of the original proponents of recalling Gavin Newsom as governor, Orrin Heatlie, has been sidelined in the final weeks of the recall campaign because he is sick with COVID-19.
SF News Tahoe Bears Took Advantage Of Empty Neighborhoods, Went to Town on Trash Cans, Rotting Food The bears of the South Lake Tahoe area had a ball last week tearing through evacuated neighborhoods, breaking into homes and garages where they smelled food, and generally making a huge, stinking mess.
SF News Spree of 15 Arson Fires Puts Healdsburg On Edge A suspected arsonist had firefighters chasing down small blazes all around Healdsburg on Monday, putting residents and firefighters both on edge for hours amid continued dry conditions.
SF News Woman Trips, Falls From Bluff and Dies On Pacifica Hiking Trail A female hiker fell to her death off a hiking trail near Mori Point in Pacifica on Sunday.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Marin County Fire Likely Sparked By Lawnmower A lawnmower hitting a rock was likely the culprit in last week's vegetation fire in Lucas Valley, two teens were killed during a roadside party in Brentwood, and containment on the Caldor Fire has risen to 49%.
Arts & Entertainment Guns 'N' Roses Set Cut Off, Foo Fighters End On Time to Bring BottleRock 2021 to a Close The infamous Napa curfew left Guns 'N' Roses fans with a totally anti-climactic end to Saturday's set, as the plug got pulled in the middle of the band's encore, "Paradise City," featuring guest Dave Grohl.
SF News Evacuations Lifted In South Lake Tahoe As Winds Calm Down Evacuation orders in areas close to Lake Tahoe, including the city of South Lake Tahoe, were downgraded to warnings on Sunday, allowing thousands of residents to return home almost a week after being forced out by threatening flames.
SF News Labor Day Links: Oracle Park Concession Workers Vote to Strike Oracle Park workers have voted to strike but will be working today's Giants game, a new wildfire erupted Sunday in Auburn, and a horrific wrong-way crash killed one person Monday morning in Oakland near the Bay Bridge.
SF News Sunday Links: How Berkeley Defines a Shadow Could Upend Future Housing Plans Karla the Fog was particularly thick this morning, California firefighters continue making headway containing wildfires, and Berkeley’s mission to explicitly define shadows could mitigate future housing plans.
SF News Caldor Fire Jumps to 37% Containment; Fire Evacuees Hopeful They Can Return Home Soon Due to a mix of improved weather conditions and successful suppression strategies performed by firefighters, the Caldor Fire is now at least 37% contained after burning some 214,107 acres — giving new hope for evacuees that they can return to their houses soon.
SF News Saturday Links: Wildfire Smoke Continues to Haze Air Around San Francisco "Moderate" air quality levels still hang above the San Francisco sky, a one-alarm warehouse fire broke out in Potrero Hill early Saturday morning, and Yolanda López, who painted the Virgen de Guadalupe series, has passed away at 79.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland’s First City-Permitted Weed Festival to Take Place Over the Long Weekend Market Daze is set to become Oakland’s first city-permitted cannabis festival over the long weekend, CA cyclists could soon have the option to treat stop signs at times as yield signs, and Santa Clara County will open in-person voting stations this weekend for the gubernatorial recall election.
Bay Area Sports Giants Snap Four-Game Losing Streak to Tie Dodgers, Setting Up Intense Series at Oracle It's going to feel like playoff baseball, as the Giants and Dodgers head in this weekend's three-game series tied for the best record in baseball, for their last series of the regular season.
SF News Black Bear Euthanized for Burns Suffered in Caldor Fire California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials had to make a tough call, with a bear they could not transport to safety, and would have burned alive in the fire as it could no longer walk.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Releases Soaring New Crime Stats, Asks the Public For Help Just eight months on the job, Oakland Police chief LeRonne Armstrong decries a 100% increase in carjackings and a 50% increase in shootings compared to this point last year.
SF News SF’s ‘Cruelest Landlord’ Back in News, Tenants Win $2.7 Million Harassment Appeal Notorious landlord Anne Kihagi lost all of her SF properties a couple years ago, but her long-suffering tenants are still in the courts with her, and she just lost an appeal of a seven-year-old harassment case.
Arts & Entertainment Review: ‘Shang-Chi’ an Epic SF Car Chase, Followed by Two Hours of Sporadically Good Comic Book Movie The Muni-kung fu-swordfight-car chase scene on SF hills is well worth the price of admission, but the rest of ‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ is, well, up and down.
SF News Ghost Ship Building Landlords to Pay $12M to Victims' Families, and Declare Bankruptcy One of the last bits of legal fallout from the 2016 Ghost Ship fire in Oakland appears to have reached a resolution, and families of some of the 36 victims are going to share a $12 million settlement from the owners of the property.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Oracle Park Concession Workers Threaten Strike Over COVID Hazard Pay The Caldor Fire is now 29% contained and there is hope of keeping it away from Lake Tahoe, SF police made an arrest in an Aug. 17 murder on Larkin Street, and Oracle Park concession workers may strike over COVID hazard pay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: There's a Possibility That the Caldor and Tamarack Fires Could Join Together Fairyland in Oakland turned 71 years old today, Situ at SFMOMA has permanently closed, and as firefighters continue battling the Caldor Fire, one new containment measure is being considered: to merge it with the Tamarack Fire.
