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.
Bay Area Sports Unvaccinated Warriors Players May Have to Sit Home Games Out The Golden State Warriors are among three NBA teams whose local vaccination mandates dictate that individual players cannot play games at their own home arena unless they are fully vaccinated.
SF News BART’s New Evasion-Proof (Yeah, Right) Fare Gates Begin to Appear in the Wild So-called “Next Generation Fare Gates” are plexiglass doors and are now installed at Rockridge station, so we’ll see if this latest invention makes a dent in the system’s $25 million-a-year fare evasion problem.
SF Politics Good News for Gavin? Dems Crushing GOP 2-to-1 in Returning Mail-In Ballots A couple new polls show Newsom back up by double-digits in the Sept. 14 recall election, but more importantly, Democrats have an overwhelming advantage among the 23% of Californians who’ve already voted by mail.
Arts & Entertainment H.E.R. Announces Lineup for Bay Area Music Festival The sold-out Lights On Festival will likely be September's hottest tickets on Craigslist, as Super Bowl LV performer and Vallejo native H.E.R. adds Erykah Badu and Ty Dolla $ign to the Concord Pavilion music fest.
SF News Horse Deworming Drug Ivermectin Flying Off Shelves at Bay Area Tack and Feed Stores Joe Rogan’s wholly unqualified endorsement will likely only increase demand for the roundworm medication for horses that has become the Covidiots’ latest perceived miracle drug.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Spared Another Night From Caldor Fire Winds cooperated Wednesday night and Thursday morning, and firefighters continue to keep the Caldor Fire several miles away from Lake Tahoe, and outside of the city of South Lake Tahoe, but the flames continue advancing east toward the Nevada border.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Another Air Quality Advisory Hits the Bay The southeastern front of the Dixie Fire is now threatening the Highway 395 corridor, smoke from the Caldor Fire may impact the Bay Area's air quality again, and flash flooding in New York and New Jersey led to at least 14 deaths last night.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Facebook Gives $38M to Affordable Housing Projects The pictures coming from Tahoe area fire cameras are bleak, firefighters face another tense night in the Caldor Fire as it bears down on South Lake Tahoe, and Facebook just awarded $38 million to four Bay Area affordable housing projects.
Business & Tech Reddit Moderators Revolt Over Company’s Lax Misinformation Policy Some of the most popular subreddits on Reddit have “gone dark” this week in protest of the company’s hand-off policy with misinformation and anti-vaxxer online bullying, and Wednesday, Reddit did at least ban one of the worst offenders.
SF News Union Square's Handlery Hotel Offers Discounted Room Rate for Caldor Fire Evacuees For any fire evacuees from South Lake Tahoe who'd like to spend a few days in San Francisco to take their minds off the wildfire bearing down on their town, the Handlery Union Square Hotel is offering rates of $75 per night.
SF News COVID Hospitalizations Level Off In Bay Area, California The Delta variant surge appears to have crested — for now — in the Bay Area, and that can be seen in falling daily case numbers as well as hospitalizations.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink High-End Japanese-Peruvian Restaurant Signs Lease for Rooftop of Former Macy's Men's Store In Union Square Chotto Matte, a high-end restaurant concept born in London that showcases the Nikkei cuisine of Peru — which is influenced by Japanese immigrants in the country several generations ago — is coming to San Francisco's Union Square next year.
SF News Millennium Tower May Be Sinking Faster Due to Digging That's Part of Effort to Stop It Sinking The effort to shore up the foundation of Millennium Tower in downtown San Francisco, which began in May, may be contributing to an accelerated rate of settlement that engineers are observing, causing alarm.
SF News Half-Off BART Fares Start Today, Lasting Through September Thinking that September 1st would be when it would be rolling out fuller, pre-pandemic levels of train service, BART announced a few months ago that it would be offering 50% off all fares for the month of September.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Caldor Fire Moves Closer to Heavenly The Caldor Fire grew to over 200,000 acres last night and is scorching the edges of South Lake Tahoe, Santa Clara County supervisors took a vote of no confidence in the sheriff, and jury selection continues in Elizabeth Holmes's trial.
SF News Guy Climbs and Damages Castro Theatre Sign, Creates Bizarre 90-Minute Standoff An unidentified man climbed the Castro Theatre sign Tuesday night, and according to eyewitnesses, threw cinder blocks to the street, got naked, and masturbated on the roof.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Bonnaroo Canceled Due to Flooding A young man gunned down in Oakland early Sunday has been identified, Newsom made an appearance in Oakland encouraging more vaccinations, and rains from Hurricane Ida have caused flooding in Tennessee that has prompted the cancellation of Bonnaroo.
SF News California Has Quietly Paid $4.4 Million to Settle COVID-19 Shutdown Lawsuits An oddball assortment of churches, strip clubs, and tattoo parlors have squeezed $4.4 million out of the state to settle their lawsuits related to COVID closures, and the state spent $9.5 million on attorneys to defend the shutdowns.
SF News SFPD Now Offering $50K Reward for Killer of Bayview Teen Girl Last Month The case has apparently gone cold in the hunt for the shooter who killed a 16-year-old girl and injured her aunt while the family was sitting outside their new home last month, and the SFPD is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction.
SF News Marin Health Officer Addresses Report On School COVID Outbreak: 'Everyone Makes Mistakes' The report that the CDC released late last week pertaining to a May COVID outbreak at a Marin County school continues to have a ripple effect nationwide — showing how classrooms, even with windows open and kids masked, can be vulnerable to the Delta variant.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock to Be the Bay Area's First Big Test for Festival Safety During the Ongoing Pandemic Tens of thousands of football fans have crowded into Levi's Stadium in recent weeks for the first couple 49ers preseason games with no vaccine mandate, but BottleRock will be the region's first test of a non-seated, large-scale outdoor event.
SF News South Lake Tahoe Evacuation Causes Major Traffic Jam; Caldor Fire Advances Into Edge of Tahoe Basin The Caldor Fire continued its steady advance toward the Tahoe Basin on Monday amid a mass evacuation of South Lake Tahoe. But so far most of the flames have been held back by the granite outcroppings around Lower Echo Lake and Lake Aloha.
SF News Cargo Ship Anchored In San Francisco Bay Has 19 COVID-Positive Crew Members A cargo ship is quarantining in San Francisco Bay with a dozen COVID-positive crew members onboard, and six others who were feeling ill have been taken to San Francisco hospitals for medical treatment.
