SF News Airbnb Is Suing Guest Who Threw Sunnyvale House Party That Ended In Shooting As it has done in similar cases in the past, Airbnb announced Tuesday that it is taking legal action against the guest who threw an unauthorized teenage bash at a rental home in Sunnyvale on August 7 that tragically ended in a fatal shooting.
SF News Red Flag Warning Issued For Parts of North and East Bay With Winds Expected As strong, gusty winds arrive, the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag warning for parts of the Bay Area beginning at 11 p.m. Tuesday and extending through 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
SF News Body Found In Water In Pacifica Identified As Missing Richmond District Grandmother A mysterious disappearance has some closure today as the coroner in San Mateo County confirms that a body found off Pedro Point in Pacifica is that of 84-year-old Jean Chang Kan Fung.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: FDA Expected to Recommend Boosters at 8 Months The FDA is expected to announce this week that Americans should get a booster vaccine dose 8 months after their second dose, there's some weird and threatening union drama among Golden Gate Transit bus drivers, and the Caldor Fire exploded in size overnight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Newsom Staffer Tests Positive for COVID Two Oakland schools have already had to contend with small COVID outbreaks, a vaccinated Newsom staffer has tested positive, and the Great Highway reopened to cars this morning following a Sunday protest.
Arts & Entertainment Three-Legged Dogs Once Again Take Over Duboce Park for ‘Tri-Pawed Dogs’ Picnic Amputee dogs had their day again in Duboce Park Sunday, and the 10th annual Three-Legged Dog picnic returned after a COVID hiatus to welcome dogs with three legs, cones, casts, one eye, one ear, wheelchairs, blindness, deafness, or toothlessness.
Arts & Entertainment Zion I Rapper Baba Zumbi Dies In Berkeley Hospital After 'Altercation' During Treatment for COVID Baba Zumbi, whose real name was Stephen Gaines, died early Friday at Alta Bates hospital in Berkeley at the age of 49, possibly from complications related to COVID-19 — though police are also investigating an altercation he was allegedly involved in with hospital staff just before he died.
SF News SF Delta Surge May Have Already Peaked, But City Reopens Mass-Testing Site In SoMa Months after the city closed several mass-testing locations in favor of neighborhood-based sites, the Delta variant surge of COVID has prompted SF's Department of Public Health to reopen one of its former drive-through/
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink OpenTable Adds Tool to Help Restaurants Verify Customers' Vaccination Status Reservation-booking platform OpenTable says it is rolling out a new feature for restaurants by the end of the month that will allow them to flag repeat customers as "Verified for Entry" once they have shown their vaccination proof once.
SF News DA's Office Announces Charges Against Man Accused Of Vandalizing, Burglarizing Dozens of Chinese-Owned Businesses A San Francisco man stands accused of vandalizing 20 Chinese-owned businesses in the city, as well as seven others, and he faces burglary charges and hate-crime enhancements as well.
SF News Judge Tosses Alison Collins's Bizarre $87 Million Lawsuit Against SF School Board Many of us were left scratching/shaking our heads in March after embattled school board member Alison Collins filed her federal suit, and now a judge has tossed it before it had a hearing.
SF News Marin-Based Founder of Agriculture Nonprofit Says the Lives of Her 360 Afghan Employees Are at Risk Heidi Kuhn, the co-founder of the Bay Area-founded, international nonprofit Roots of Peace, is pleading with President Biden and speaking out to the media in the hopes of evacuating 360 Afghan employees whose lives she believes are at risk.
SF News PG&E Warns of PSPS Outages Starting Tuesday PG&E announced late Sunday that it was giving its mandated 48 hours advance warning of possible public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) in 16 counties due to dry winds starting on Tuesday night.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bay Area Afghan Community Devastated By Taliban Takeover The Bay Area's large Afghan community is watching news from Kabul in horror, evacuations were ordered in the Caldor Fire in El Dorado County, and the mayor of San Jose is calling for the sheriff to resign.
SF News Santa Clara Approves Additional Dose of mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines for Immunocompromised Patients Now that the FDA and CDC have authorized the use of third doses of COVID-19 vaccines for certain at-risk individuals, Santa Clara will start giving these extra shots for qualifying people — among those being transplant recipients and cancer patients.
SF News Sunday Links: Bell Fire Burns Near Mendocino The death toll of the Haitian earthquake is now north of 700, at least 10 inmates and 12 staff members recently tested positive for COVID-19 at the Santa Rita Jail, and the Bell Fire began sometime Saturday near Mendocino (but it’s already 50% contained).
SF News SF Hospital CEO Suggests This 4th Wave of COVID-19 Might've Peaked — at Least in San Francisco Based on the most recent City data that shows hospitalizations are leveling off, as well as cases slowly coming down, the CEO of Zuckerberg SF General Hospital has said SF may have seen the worst of this wave of COVID-19.
SF News SF Police Arrest Suspect in Attempted Robbery of Elderly Asian Man In May, a 70-year-old Asian man was attacked in Noe Valley, the assailant also trying to steal a watch off the man's wrist. But San Francisco police have now arrested and detained the twentysomething thought to be responsible for the assault.
SF News Saturday Links: No Children in San Francisco Are Currently Hospitalized With COVID-19 San Francisco (at the moment) has not a single child hospitalized with COVID-19, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Haiti earlier today, and the Dixie Fire had another night of explosive growth — now measuring more than 540,000 acres in size.
SF News Day Around the Bay: West Coast Wildfires Possibly Responsible for Thousands of COVID-19 Infections Sisters Coffee Shop has officially opened in the Mission District, a new study published Friday shows that the West Coast wildfires may have caused thousands of COVID-19 infections, and the 2020 census proved that California is growing and diversifying — including the City of Berkeley.
SF News SFPD Increases Foot Patrols In Tourist Areas, But Will They Help Make People Feel Safe? San Francisco police have begun doing more foot patrols around Union Square, Chinatown, and Fisherman's Wharf, in an effort to deter crime and make locals and tourists feel safer about the city. But is this just safety theater?
SF News James Hormel, First Ever Openly Gay U.S. Ambassador, Has Died A titan in the San Francisco philanthropy scene and a survivor of vicious homophobic Republican smears in the late 1990s, James Hormel leaves us a legacy that includes the AIDS Memorial Grove and the LGBTQIA center at the library.
SF News Cal Fire Investigation Comes Up Short on Evidence, Can't Pinpoint Cause of Last Year's Glass Fire The official cause of the Glass Fire in Napa and Sonoma counties last fall will remain undetermined pending the revelation of more conclusive evidence, and Cal Fire investigators say they have not found enough to make a determination.
SF News La Niña Watch Is Officially On This Fall, and That Could Be Disastrous for the Drought We are looking at back-to-back La Niña winters, and while forecasters tried to keep us optimistic about the chances of average rainfall last winter, we all know how that turned out. So we should brace ourselves for another year of this drought.
SF News San Francisco Only Got More Childless In the Last Decade For several decades now, San Francisco has had one of the lowest percentages of school-age children and teens of any major city in the country. And the latest numbers from the 2020 Census show that SF's youth population has only decreased.
