SF News Levi’s Stadium Throwing Teen Vaccination Parties With DJs and Oodles of Goodies The vaccine machine that is Levi’s Stadium is offering teens a “Vaxstage Pass” — vaccine shots, with chasers of 49ers swag, locker room tours, and live DJs several nights this week.
SF Politics SF Supervisors Vote On Recology Settlement That Comes With $190 Refunds for Trash Customers Recology customers in San Francisco are set to get refunds and lower rates from the company, and the city will get a $7 million payout under the terms of a settlement in a lawsuit from the city attorney.
Business & Tech 44 Attorneys General Are Kindly Asking Facebook Not to Launch Instagram For Kids 44 U.S. attorneys general are asking the company to please, kindly, not launch an Instagram for kids, because of all the significant legal, safety, welfare, and privacy concerns this will raise.
SF News Alameda Callers Did Not Use 911 to Report Mario Gonzalez Being Drunk; Civil Rights Attorney Asks AG Merrick Garland to Investigate What were initially reported as two separate 911 calls about an apparently intoxicated but non-threatening man in an Alameda Park last month were actually calls to the city's non-emergency line.
SF News SFPD Seeks Help Identifying Alleged Carjacker Who Severely Injured a 65-Year-Old Man Last Month Richard Mead was out late at night in San Francisco last month, at work on one of his latest hobbies, collecting scrap metal. He was picking through a dumpster near Union Square when he saw someone get into the driver's seat of his truck.
Bay Area Sports Warriors Best NBA Leaders As Scoring Title Race Heats Up Off The Court The Golden State Warriors survived a late onslaught from Jordan Clarkson as they held on to beat the NBA-leading Utah Jazz 119-116 at Chase Center Monday night, securing a play-in berth for this year’s postseason tournament.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Newsom to Add $9 Billion For Homeless Housing Famed Bay Area interior architect Art Gensler dies at 85, Newsom wants to cover all back rent for low-income Californians, and Santa Clara County and the 49ers are teaming up to get teens vaccinated.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF High School Seniors May Get to Return In-Person for One Day SF high school seniors may get brought back to a couple of schools for a day just so the district qualifies for some state funds, SFMTA introduces a new temporary bus line, and Mayor Breed proposes new "wellness teams" to join SF's street crisis teams.
SF News SF Pastor Elected Nation’s First Openly Trans Lutheran Bishop The Outer Sunset’s Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church pastor Rev. Megan Rohrer just became the first ever trans person elected bishop to a major U.S. Christian denomination.
Arts & Entertainment 'Monumental' New Sculpture Installation Commemorating America's First Slaves Likely Coming to Golden Gate Park A collection of 350 sculptures that commemorate America's "original sin" of slavery is set to arrive by Juneteenth at the Golden Gate Park's Music Concourse.
SF News Market Street Stabbing Suspect Pleads Not Guilty to Attempted Murder 54-year-old Patrick Thompson, the mentally ill man accused in last week's stabbing of two elderly Asian women on Market Street near Union Square, appeared in court for an arraignment Monday after refusing to do so on Friday.
Arts & Entertainment Downtown SF Peregrine Falcon Brood Remains Healthy, Four Chicks Getting Well Fed All four of the baby peregrine falcons that hatched in the nest atop the PG&E building on Beale Street in downtown SF have survived their first month and will soon begin to fledge — gaining the adult feathers they need for flight.
SF News East Bay Teen Disappears While On Vacation In Mexico A 19-year-old from Hayward went missing a week ago while he was visiting a sister in Mexico, and U.S. authorities are now pressing local police to locate him.
SF News 41-Year-Old Man Killed When Car Jumps Sidewalk In Oakland's Glenview Neighborhood; Driver Flees Scene A 41-year-old Oakland man was killed on Sunday afternoon when a car drove onto the sidewalk where he was standing. The driver fled the scene on foot and police have yet to announce an arrest.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Bystanders Chase Off Car Burglars In Japantown A big jump in COVID cases in Alameda County last week was the result of a state tabulation correction, a Sunday truck fire and subsequent grass fire shut down I-80 in Placer County, and Gov. Newsom is proposing new $600 stimulus checks for middle-income Californians.
SF News Red Flag Warning for North and East Bay Hills Extended to Tuesday Night Initially expected to end Monday at 6 p.m., the National Weather Service (NWS) has extended its Red Flag Warning for parts of the Bay Area another 24 hours.
SF News A Possible Way To Help Bay Area Forests Recover After Wildfires? Introduce Mushrooms Forest fires play a crucial role in natural life cycles — it's just that human activity is exacerbating that rhythm. In order to give Mother Nature a leg up after the flames cease, Santa Cruz researchers are using oyster mushrooms to help break down the ash from previous wildfires.
SF News Mother's Day Headlines: San Francisco Businesses See Uptick in Sales Amid Yellow Tier Status Around 65% of all San Franciscans have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, three people — a four-year-old and two women — were injured in the Times Square shooting yesterday, and local businesses are enjoying a second wave of increased sales amid looser COVID-19 restrictions.
SF News 45-Acre Brush Fire in Solano County Has Been Contained The grass fire near the Benicia Bridge — which was first reported today at 10:28 a.m.— was successfully contained by CalFire crews Saturday afternoon; no structures were damaged by the blaze.
SF News Suspect in Stabbing of Two Asian Women in San Francisco Never Made It to Court On Friday, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin asked a judge to hold a man who's connected with the high-profile stabbing Tuesday of two elderly Asian women near Fourth and Market streets. The suspect — Patrick Thompson — however, refused to come to court from jail.
SF News Saturday Links: Multiple People Injured During Late-Night Shooting at Lake Merritt A shooting near Lakeshore Avenue around 3:30 a.m. Saturday left more than one person injured, hurricane-like winds blew through the Bay Area, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf released her 2021-23 budget Friday — which showed that local police would receive $600M from the $3.85B plan.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF's Largest Convention This Year Gets Scrapped All Contra Costa County-run vaccination sites will now allow walk-ins, disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to go on trial this summer, and a convention by the American College of Rheumatology — which was slated to be SF's largest convention in 2021 — has been canceled.
SF Politics ‘Bear Guy’ Recall Candidate John Cox Leads All Challengers — With a Whopping 9% Only one candidate in the Recall Gavin circus has spent the money to advertise on TV, but you’d hardly call him a “credible” challenger.
SF News BART Ridership Hit a New Pandemic High Thursday as More People Are Moving Around Ridership on BART steadily climbed this week, as the agency's communications team announced Friday on Twitter, hitting a new high Thursday not seen since the beginning of the pandemic.
SF News SFPD Officer Involved In Shooting Near South Park Just before 1 p.m. Friday, there was an officer-involved shooting near South Park in San Francisco, and details so far are scarce.
