SF News Two Weeks After July 4th, Delta-Variant Surge Causes Spike In Bay Area Hospitalizations COVID hospitalizations in San Francisco have doubled in the past two weeks, and across the Bay Area, the hospital count rose 12% on Monday alone.
Arts & Entertainment Joan Jett Tickets at Stern Grove Go Up for Grabs at 2 p.m. This is just a public service announcement both to remind you that the Stern Grove Festival requires reservations this year and those reservations can only happen 12 days before each show, and that Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are playing August 1.
SF Politics State Treasurer Fiona Ma Being Sued For Alleged Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination Former SF Supervisor and state Assemblymember Fiona Ma, who became California State Treasurer in January 2019, is facing a lawsuit from a former senior employee in the Treasurer's Office claiming sexual harassment and wrongful termination.
SF News Mother of East Bay Man Killed at Oroville Campsite Seeks Answers The mother of the young man who was fatally shot in his tent over the July 4th weekend at a campsite by Lake Oroville remains in shock and still has no information from investigators about why her son was killed.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Lawsuits Over Recall Ballot Roll In The Solano County health officer says he's not recommending masks in public because people are getting COVID from gatherings at home, the victims in Friday's plane crash in Napa have been ID'd, and the Oakland City Council is taking a critical vote today on the proposed A's stadium development.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Dow Slides On New COVID Fears Alameda, Contra Costa, and Solano counties are all back in what would have been "Purple" tier status; GrubHub and DoorDash are suing SF over that 15% fee cap; and four more local counties including Napa have joined in the voluntary mask guidance for indoor spaces.
SF News Sunday Night Sideshow In SF Blocks Bay Bridge, Spawns Numerous Smartphone Videos A Rincon Hill sideshow briefly blocked the entrance and exit to the Bay Bridge Sunday night, and Twitter Karen-dom is furious at the lack of arrests.
SF Politics West Portal Stalking Case In Which Charges Were Dropped Provides More Fodder For SF Criminal Justice Critics A case involving a mentally ill man and a 15-year-old girl who says he stalked, grabbed, and generally terrified her one afternoon last year in West Portal is giving the Chronicle's Heather Knight more reason to rally critics of SF's criminal justice system.
Business & Tech Uber Adds Grocery Delivery In SF, Including From Safeway and Andronico's Uber is pushing further into the world of delivery with a major expansion of grocery delivery services this week, including in San Francisco.
Business & Tech Biden Backs Down Slightly From Saying Facebook Is 'Killing People' With Vaccine Misinformation President Joe Biden attempted to de-escalate a war of words he started last week with Facebook, walking back a statement he made about the platform "killing people" due to its failure to curb misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Dovre Club Fights to Survive, Starts a GoFundMe to Secure Location 54-year-old Mission District Irish bar Dovre Club is hanging on by a thread, but a GoFundMe campaign could help secure its longtime spot at Valencia and 26th Streets.
SF News First Weekend of Latest Mask Recommendation Leads to Confusion, Varied Response By Bay Area Businesses After a month of no masks in bars and restaurants — for patrons at least — the boomeranging guidance made for some awkward situations over the weekend.
SF News PG&E Equipment May Be to Blame For Sparking Dixie Fire Near Where Camp Fire Began The Dixie Fire now burning in Butte and Plumas counties has grown to over 30,000 acres since starting last week, and PG&E is now admitting that its equipment may once again be to blame for the initial sparks.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Early Morning Fire Damages Three West Oakland Homes The Bay Area dodged the dry lightning bullet and the Red Flag Warning has been lifted, a three-alarm fire broke out in an alleged squatter dwelling in West Oakland, and a U.S. women's team gymnast has tested positive for COVID.
SF News Dixie Fire Approaches Camp Fire Burn Scar With Over 18,000 Acres Burned; Smoke Clouds Blanketing Nearby Skies The Dixie Fire has exploded over the weekend with only 15% of the fire contained as it nears the Camp Fire burn scar in Butte County; there’s also now a huge amount of smoke in the air.
SF News Sunday Links: 5.1M Earthquake Rattles Off Northern California Coast A large earthquake happened 7.5 miles west of Petrolia in Humboldt County Saturday, emergency crews were called to help an injured hiker at Alum Rock Park earlier this week, and two athletes tested positive for COVID-19 in the Olympic Village.
SF News Now There's a Red Flag Warning for Parts of the Bay Area The potential for dry thunderstorms striking parts of the Bay Area has now led the National Weather Service to elevate areas that were previously under a Fire Weather Watch now to a Red Flag Warning.
SF News Police: Fremont Teenager Stabs Parents, Killing Mother and Wounding Father On Friday around 12:30 a.m., a 14-year-old boy was found covered in blood after allegedly stabbing both his parents — killing his mom and leaving the dad with severe injuries — according to Fremont police.
SF News Saturday Links: Chinatown to Receive $26.5M Arts and Media Center One large storefront at Grant Avenue and Clay Street is set to become a Chinese arts and media center, a Saturday morning hit-and-run crash at a San Jose intersection left one driver dead, and yes: Monkeypox is a thing.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Parts of Bay Area Put Under Fire Weather Watch Amid Potential Thunderstorms The National Weather Service put parts of the Bay Area under a Fire Weather Watch for this weekend, a small plane crash in Napa killed three people, and Uber was fined $59M last year — but could now get away virtually scot-free.
Arts & Entertainment Another Beloved El Rio Party, Daytime Realness, Triumphantly Returns This Weekend Daytime Realness was still in the midst of its November-to-March hiatus when the pandemic hit last winter. So now, for the first time in 21 months, this popular queer party at El Rio is returning on Sunday with its first ever pre-sale tickets.
Cannabis 19 Best Cannabis Delivery Services to 'Medicate' in SF With the pandemic came a sharp increase in all things delivery. Cannabis was no exception. If you recently became a cannabis delivery customer, you might have forgotten that marijuana delivery has been a
SF Politics New Group 'Shine on SF' Is Working to Clean Things, Install 'Golden Trees,' and Push for Civic Pride A new group that formed before the pandemic began but is just now getting its gears in motion is aiming to revive San Franciscans' pride in their city, after at least a decade in which the overall consensus has been that everything here is terrible.
SF News Coyote That Charged Toddlers In Golden Gate Park Was Euthanized An aggressive coyote that several mothers reported had gotten too close for comfort with their small children in the San Francisco Botanical Garden, has been euthanized.
SF News Bay Area Health Officers Urge Residents to Wear Masks Again in Indoor Public Spaces, Voluntarily A day after Los Angeles reinstituted its mask mandate, a coalition of Bay Area health officers including those representing San Francisco and Alameda counties issued a joint statement urging residents to wear their masks again voluntarily.
