SF Politics In Wake of Report About Re-Offenders, an SF Supervisor Pushes For More Reporting on Suspects Released Before Trial Adding to the warring choruses about the state of San Francisco and crime, Supervisor Catherine Stefani appears to have taken her case to the Chronicle, which rolled with a fairly sensational headline about how half of all suspects granted pretrial release go on to reoffend.
SF News Some Breakthrough COVID Cases Among Vaccinated Appearing In Bay Area; CDC Puts East Bay Areas on Hot-Spot List In the wake of a holiday travel week and the growing spread of the Delta variant, local reports are coming in with a bit more frequency of fully vaccinated people testing positive for COVID-19 and even getting sick.
SF News Cable Cars Return For Testing and (Maybe) Free Rides San Francisco's iconic cable cars rolled back into testing mode on Monday, with a few operators reportedly offering free rides while the cars undergo weeks of testing, to the delight of locals and tourists alike.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: 90 People Are Running For Governor In Newsom Recall COVID outbreaks at summer camps across the U.S. have experts worried for the school year, the barrage of attack ads against Newsom has begun, and Bay Area rapper Sky Skers/Sky Balla has been arrested for rape in Vegas.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oakland to Install Physical Deterrents for Sideshows Oakland is installing Botts' dots and other physical deterrents to curb sideshow activity, someone's improperly thrown out lithium battery sparked a fire at Recology, and the search intensifies for that missing Berkeley runner.
SF News Diary Belonging to Husband of Betsy Ross Found In Marin County Garage In another reminder to always go through your deceased relatives’ possessions lest you lose an amazing artifact, Betsy Ross’s third husband’s diary has been gathering dust in a Marin County garage until it was recently found.
SF News Cannabis Company Caused Mendocino Wildfire That Burned 80 Acres Well-funded legal marijuana darling Flow Kana admits one of their lawnmowers sparked last week’s Broiler Fire, which forced 250 evacuations while burning 80 acres and three homes.
Arts & Entertainment SF Playhouse Announces 2021-22 Season, Readies In-Person Summer Shows The always scrappy and impressive SF Playhouse near Union Square is reemerging with live performances sooner than some of its larger counterparts around the Bay Area, and today they announced their upcoming full season.
SF News Breed Says '10 Groups' Responsible for 1,000 Burglaries and Car Break-Ins Each Month, and Arrests Have Been Made San Francisco Mayor London Breed and SFPD Chief Bill Scott gave their first "CompStat" press conference of the year Monday and they took the opportunity to try to counter the much-repeated narrative about how much crime has been plaguing San Francisco.
SF News You Can Have This Oakland Victorian For Free — But You Have to Pay to Move It A Victorian house in Oakland in an unknown state of repair is being offered for free to any taker who will pay to have it relocated.
SF News Berkeley Man Charged With Attempted Murder Following Nevada Freeway Shooting, Deadly Crash A 51-year-old Berkeley man has been arrested and charged with attempted murder after he was injured in a horrific freeway crash that killed the driver of the car — which followed a freeway shooting in which the injured man is the only suspect.
SF News San Jose Mayor at White House Today to Discuss Curbing Gun Violence San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo and multiple other mayors from around the country are meeting President Biden at the White House for what's been described as a high-level strategy session on addressing the rise in gun violence nationwide.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: It's Back-to-the-Office Day For Some at Google Firefighters have contained the 128-acre Diablo Fire in the East Bay, the search continues for a Berkeley runner who went missing in Pleasanton, and today's back-to-the-office day for many employees at Google (and elsewhere).
SF News 66-Year-Old San Francisco Resident Shoots at Home Intruder Trying to Break Into His Apartment San Francisco police released a statement Friday about a recent incident explaining that a burglar got more than what he had bargained for when he was met with gunfire breaking into the home of a local elder.
SF News Sunday Links: It's Going to Be Another Hot One Today There was a small earthquake near Hollister this morning, a Bay Area doctor saved a choking fan at last night's Giants game, and though coastal cities and towns in higher elevations will be spared from triple-digit temperatures Sunday, inland areas will continue to scorch.
SF News Dog Stolen at Ferry Building Saturday Found and Reunited With Owners; Suspect Has Been Detained Maya — who looks to be either a purebred or mixed bluetick coonhound — was taken from her owners outside the Ferry Building Saturday. SFPD has since discovered the dog's whereabouts, gave Maya back to her owners, and arrested a suspect.
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SF News Saturday Links: SFPD Arrest Suspect in Chinatown Stabbing San Francisco is losing its only Top Round Roast Beef outpost soon, Valencia Street will again close to cars later tonight, and San Francisco police detained a suspect thought to be in connection with Friday's stabbing near Broadway and Powell Street.
SF News Day Around the Bay: COVID Outbreak at Sonoma Homeless Shelter Infects 47 Sonoma County officials said 47 residents at the Sam Jones Hall shelter tested positive for COVID-19, there was a small brush fire by Lake Merritt Friday, and California will still require face masks inside schools — despite the CDC recommending otherwise.
SF News Sup. Gordon Mar Calls for Cars to be Allowed Back on Great Highway, But in a ‘Hybrid’ Compromise In a new op-ed, the supervisor whose district contains the whole stretch of the Great Highway currently closed off to cars calls for a “compromise” deal on reopening the thoroughfare for automobiles.
SF Politics DA Chesa Boudin Takes Questions at Manny's, Compares Recall to 'Big Lie' District Attorney Chesa Boudin told an audience of supporters at Manny's on Thursday that he "refuse[s] to be distracted" by the ongoing effort to recall him over what he says is a false perception of the reality of the city.
SF News BART Has Deployed Its Goat Herd to Tame Excess Fire-Prone Vegetation In addition to its tracks and stations, BART has over 100 acres of land to manage — and that translates to a major headache in terms of mowing grass and cutting back overgrown vegetation when fire season hits.
SF News Palo Alto Police Are Suing the City Over a Black Lives Matter Mural They Say Discriminates Against Them A Black Lives Matter mural that sparked outrage from Palo Alto police over a year ago is now the subject of a lawsuit against the city over its refusal to remove it for four months.
SF News Delta Variant Could (Maybe) Bring Mask Mandates Back In Some Places Spread of the extra-contagious Delta variant in the Bay Area and elsewhere has sparked a lot of chatter, and questions, about whether the relative freedom we're all experiencing with public health orders lifted could be short-lived.
SF News Thieves Overwhelm Security Guard at Potrero Cannabis Dispensary, Steal Weed A lot of sweet bud just moved from the legal market to the black market, and/or some thieves are getting very high somewhere right now.
