SF Politics Kabul Attack Prompts VP Kamala Harris to Back Out of Anti-Recall Rally In Bay Area Vice President Kamala Harris backed out at the last minute from her planned attendance at a rally at the Cow Palace in Daly City in support of Governor Gavin Newsom, dealing a blow to the "No" campaign in the upcoming recall election.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Smoke Plume Arrives Over Bay Area Wildfire smoke is making for hazy skies in the Bay Area, Scott Wiener has pulled his decriminalize-psychedelics bill, and President Biden is vowing retribution for the ISIS attack on Kabul's airport that now has a death toll of over 180.
SF News Day Around the Bay: California Could Soon Pass Statewide Vaccine Requirement for Gyms and Other Venues Outside Lands announced its food and drink partners today, at least 13 American soldiers died during Thursday’s attack outside the Kabul airport, and California could soon require anyone who wants to enter inside certain public areas to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
SF News Fire Evacuation Warning Hits Tahoe Basin For First Time in 14 Years An evacuation warning has come to part of the Tahoe Basin, in the first time since 2007 that a wildfire has threatened the area — though firefighters continue to say that they will try to prevent any flames from entering the basin.
SF News Video: Woman Sets Police Truck on Fire in the Tenderloin, Remains at Large After a woman successfully managed to torch an SFPD pickup truck Wednesday afternoon, police have a description of her, but don't know her name or have her in custody.
SF News 12,500 Gallons of Raw Sewage Spills in Martinez It is not a good time to visit the Contra Costa County city of Martinez, as a burst sewer pipe has spewed more than 12,000 gallons of unpleasantness that’s bubbling up through the city’s storm drains.
SF News Moderna is Set to Begin Clinical Trials for an HIV Vaccine The elusive HIV vaccine could be on the way, as Moderna is set to begin jabbing 56 adults in the first ever mRNA HIV vaccine clinical trial in humans.
SF News First Major Heatwave of the Summer Arrives Today What the National Weather Service is calling the "first major heat event" of the summer is coming to the Bay starting Thursday, and some inland areas are expecting 105-degree afternoons.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Boy Killed In East Bay Train Collision Two new NorCal wildfires prompted evacuations on Wednesday, Caitlyn Jenner toured the Tenderloin with news cameras, and VTA light-rail service is expected to return this weekend for the first time since the late-May shooting in San Jose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dixie Fire Nears 50% Containment One person was hospitalized after a police shooting in Oakland, August is now Transgender History Month in San Francisco, and headway was made containing the Dixie Fire — California's largest single-source wildfire in history — with at least 45% of it now under control.
Business & Tech Facebook Seemingly Still Monkeying With Algorithm to Limit Right-Wing Agitprop K-Pop stans and dog advice posts are the early benefactors of some possible Facebook algorithm and reporting changes, but the Dinesh D'Souzas and Ben Shapiros of the world are sharp at adapting to game the system.
SF Politics Meet the Nine Democrats Listed on the Gavin Newsom Recall Ballot From Youtube stars to cannabis lobbyists to anti-mask Marin County yoga instructors, here are your nine options to vote for a Democrat in the upcoming California recall election — even though Newsom and many others are saying you should just leave that side of the ballot blank.
Arts & Entertainment Outside Lands Will Require Proof of Vaccination for Entry The big Lizzo and Tame Impala party will also accept proof of a negative COVID-19 test, but the test has to be taken on certain, specific days leading up to the Halloween weekend event.
Arts & Entertainment Update: Last Concert of Stern Grove Season Canceled After Water Main Break A water main break at Stern Grove has closed the area "until further notice," and the ensuing water damage has led to the cancellation of the final Sunday concert of the Stern Grove season this weekend. Tower of Power fans, we feel you.
Bay Area Sports Accusations of Affairs Arise In Messy Divorce of Steph Curry's Parents Sonya and Dell Curry, the NBA parent power couple who raised Steph, Seth, and Sydel Curry, announced Monday that they are divorcing after 33 years. But accusations of extramarital affairs on both sides are making this all sound less than amicable.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Kin Khao Dogpatch Has Permanently Closed The Dogpatch offshoot of Michelin-starred Thai restaurant Kin Khao, which opened last summer in the middle of the pandemic as a replacement for the still temporarily shuttered original Kin Khao in Union Square's Parc 55 hotel, is closed for good.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harry Denton, Beloved SF Bar Impresario, Dies at 77 Harry Denton, who lent his name to multiple bars in San Francisco and became a central figure in the city's nightlife scene over three decades, has died at the age of 77.
SF News Millennium Tower's Accelerated Sinking Halts $100 Million Effort to Stop It The ongoing project to shore up the foundation of the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower in downtown SF is temporarily on hold as engineers examine some newly accelerated sinking and tilting of the building.
SF News Humpday Headlines: SF Convention Schedule Stymied By Delta Variant A fugitive aboard a California Zephyr train was fatally shot by Amtrak police in Chicago, Tahoe area residents are fleeing to the Bay Area to breathe, and the convention schedule at the Moscone Center is in limbo due to the Delta variant.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Manages to Ram $3.5 Trillion Budget Bill Through House Nancy Pelosi herded the cats she needed on the spending and infrastructure bill, Swan Oyster Depot is getting Yelp-mobbed over what a customer felt was a racist incident, and a court shot down a lawsuit against the feds from Kate Steinle’s parents.
SF Politics Team Newsom Soiling Themselves Over Low Turnout Fears in Recall Election The polls show Newsom surviving the recall, but a bizarrely timed mid-September election and an unmotivated Democratic base could easily swing this thing to some nobody Republican with miniscule support.
SF Politics Whistleblower Sues City, Claims Calling Out an Alleged DBI Cover-Up Got Her Fired The curious case of a former Planning Commissioner’s alleged house-flipping scheme is back in the news, after accusations of secret back-channeling between the Board of Appeals and Department of Building Inspection.
SF News Fire at Abandoned Van Ness Parklet Deemed ‘Suspicious’ by SFFD The parklet outside the shuttered August 1 Five restaurant was ablaze early Saturday morning, and the fire department says the incident is "suspicious in nature."
Business & Tech If You Would Like to Hail a Robo-car in San Francisco You Can Do That Now With Waymo Google's self-driving car spinoff Waymo has just launched its autonomous vehicle ride-hailing service Waymo One in San Francisco, with a view toward getting rid of the "safety driver" altogether and letting the robo-cars do all the work.
Business & Tech Cal Takes a Cryptocurrency Naming Rights Deal for Memorial Stadium The Goldens Bears’ stadium will now be called ‘FTX Field at Memorial Stadium,’ in a crypto deal that is either a trailblazing innovation, or a slush fund for future ransomware attacks.
