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.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Unsanctioned Burning Man Has First Serious Accident A man was injured in a roll-over dune buggy incident at the "renegade" Burning Man that began Sunday, some evacuation warnings and orders have been lifted in the Dixie Fire, and demand for monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID are surging in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Mendocino County Hospitals Filled With COVID Patients Some Democratic strategists are quietly saying we should vote for Faulconer on the recall ballot, Mendocino County hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, and a 43-year-old SF man has been arrested in a Friday assault on an Asian woman in Chinatown.
SF News Recall School Board Crowd Claims They Have More Than Enough Signatures to Make Ballot Looks like SF voters will see a recall election for three school board members, as that effort claims they have well exceeded the number of signatures required to trigger an election.
SF News SF Will Begin Paying People to Not Shoot Other People The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Frances Announces Pop-Up Dinner Series With Chef Melissa Perello Ahead of Full Reopening While beloved Castro restaurant Frances still has not announced its official reopening date, chef Melissa Perello over the weekend announced a series of prix-fixe dinners at the restaurant with no set menu that she will be curating and cooking herself.
SF News CVS Is Putting Limit On Number of At-Home COVID Tests You Can Buy at Once Amid a nationwide run on at-home COVID tests and a shortage stemming from the tests' producers scaling back production a few months ago, CVS pharmacies are putting a limit on the number of test boxes customers can purchase at a time, online or in person.
SF News New Evacuation Orders Hit Most of South Lake Tahoe as Caldor Fire Inches Closer Parts of South Lake Tahoe are now under evacuation orders after spending the weekend under evacuation warnings, and the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort remains a staging area for the firefighting effort.
SF Politics In New TV Ad, Bernie Sanders Says a Right-Wing California Governor Is 'the Last Thing We Need' Senator Bernie Sanders is the latest high-profile Washington figure to speak out in support of Governor Gavin Newsom and against the recall in a new TV spot, and he tells Democrat voters, "Don't let it happen."
Business & Tech Jury Selection Set to Begin In Elizabeth Holmes Trial; Defense Expected to Cite Abuse by Boyfriend The high-profile criminal trial begins this week of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. While opening arguments in the San Jose courtroom won't begin until after Labor Day, jury selection begins on Tuesday, August 31.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Oakland Firefighters Head to Louisiana to Help With Hurricane Recovery, Rescue South Lake Tahoe remains under an evacuation warning after the Caldor Fire "let loose" on Sunday, two surfers and a bystander saved a drowning man at Ocean Beach, and an elite team of urban rescue firefighters just left Oakland to aid in the Louisiana hurricane recovery effort.
SF News Spare the Air Alert Extended Through Sunday; Regional Air Quality Advisory to Go Into Effect Monday With wildfire smoke still filling the Bay Area skies, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) has extended the Spare the Air Alert through today, which was originally set to expire Saturday.
SF News Sunday Links: South Lake Tahoe Looks Lifeless Amid Evacuation Warning Hurricane Ida has made landfall off the coast of Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, a deadly car crash Friday killed one Livermore high schooler and left another five injured, and pictures arrive of a desolate South Lake Tahoe following a new evacuation warning.
SF News It's Officially the Hottest Day in San Francisco So Far This Year This afternoon, it reached 84 degrees Fahrenheit in San Francisco — making Saturday the city’s single-hottest day recorded this year, thus far.
SF News 48-Year-Old Man Killed in San Francisco Shooting Has Been Identified On August 17, a fortysomething man was attacked and shot near the 800 block of Larkin Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Over a week later, the body has been officially identified as one Theodore Tolliver.
SF News Saturday Links: Bay Area Air Showing 'Unhealthy' Levels of Pollutants There's an ongoing donation drive for Afghan refugees in the East Bay, Contra Costa County employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 4 (or face possible termination), and the air around the Bay Area continues hazing with dangerous levels of wildfire smoke pollutants.
SF News Day Around the Bay: This San Francisco Group Helped Vaccinate 1,500 People Against COVID-19 A small team at SF's I.T. Bookman Community Center helped 1,500 individuals get to vaccine appointments, Dog Eared Books in the Castro will soon reopen as a different bookshop called Fabulosa Books, and there’s a brand-new campground on the SF Bay you can pitch a tent at now.
Arts & Entertainment Parades are Back, as Italian Heritage Parade Returns to North Beach in October The nation’s “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” returns October 10, the first major parade to float the idea since COVID hit.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland's Ale Industries Puts Adorable Adoptable Pets on Beer Cans Oakland's longest running brewery — and one of its most interesting and innovative — Ale Industries has done a new marketing collaboration with the East Bay SPCA that is all but guaranteed to sell a lot of beer and get some cats and pups adopted.
SF News Video: Li’l Coyote Pup Rescued After Falling Into Bay at Fisherman’s Wharf Animal Care & Control successfully rescued a coyote pup who fell into the ice cold water of the bay, and the little nipper received medical treatment and has returned to the wild.
SF News Video: Motorist In SF Catches Smash-and-Grab Thief In Act, Gives Him Beating Some physical retribution for a smash-and-grab auto burglar was caught on surveillance video in broad, crowded daylight along a San Francisco street, after the burglary victim grabbed the culprit and proceeded to give him a beating.
Arts & Entertainment Drag Movie ‘Shit & Champagne’ Has SF Premiere Saturday, Gets Deal to Stream on AppleTV, Amazon Prime Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger tells us about ‘Shit and Champagne,’ her cult-hit play-turned-movie with a Castro Theatre premiere Saturday, and new streaming deals with Amazon Prime and AppleTV.
SF News SFPD Warns of DUI Checkpoints and Patrols on Saturday The San Francisco Police Department is again letting it be known that they will be out in force this Saturday night/Sunday morning seeking out drunk and impaired drivers in the city.
SF News Berkeley Teenager Arrested for Alleged Widespread Revenge Porn and Blackmail Scheme Involving Snapchat A 19-year-old former Berkeley High School student was arrested earlier this week in connection with an alleged hacking and blackmail scheme involving nude photos of underage girls, some of whom he went to school with.
SF News One Unvaccinated Teacher In Marin School Seeded COVID Outbreak That Infected Over a Dozen Students, Their Siblings, and Parents The CDC has just released a study focused on how one unvaccinated teacher infected with the Delta variant of COVID-19, in a mostly masked Marin County classroom, managed to infect half their students and seeded an outbreak that hit another classroom and students' families as well.
