The Dixie Fire, which despite its massive burn scar has so far been mostly burning through uninhabited forest in Butte and Plumas counties, continues raging in the area of Indian Falls, and the full extent of the damage won't be clear for a day or two.
A pioneer among independent women in the blue-collar workforce in America, one-time WWII-era welder Phyllis Gould, who went on to fight for national recognition for herself an other "Rosies," died last week at her home in Fairfax. She was 99.
The CDC reversed course Monday, citing new data, and said it now recommends indoor masks for the vaccinated in all areas of the country where COVID infections are surging.
Is the question about getting or not getting a vaccine one of civil liberties and relative freedom of choice? Or does our duty to each other and to tamping down a pandemic trump everything else?
A poll finds that "likely" voters in the September recall are nearly evenly split on recalling Newsom, and now he's getting tough in his talk trying to motivate voters by comparing the Republicans behind the recall to those pushing vaccine misinformation.
A plane that crashed in Truckee on Monday killed all four people onboard, Singapore's Delta variant surge among the vaccinated may hold clues for the Bay Area, and the CDC is expected to tell all vaccinated people to put masks back on indoors.
A brush fire near the Berkeley Marina on Sunday was likely sparked by outdoor cooking at a homeless encampment, congestion pricing is still being studied to alleviate SF traffic, and "long COVID" is now going to be covered under federal disability law.
Former U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer was reportedly shoved to the ground and robbed of her cell phone near Oakland's Jack London Square on Monday afternoon.
Public health officials and state and city leaders in Hawaii, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere are urging their residents not to travel to Las Vegas right now amid a growing surge in the Delta variant and little or no mask mandates at Vegas casinos and restaurants.
One of SF's first big Instagram-trap "museums," the Museum of Ice Cream, has scooped its last scoop and swept up its last plastic sprinkle.
California will be the first state to require all state employees to be vaccinated, while Mayor London Breed doubles down and expands the SF vaxx mandate, and you see where this is all going.
Ahead of the start of a preliminary hearing in the murder trial of Paul Flores, the San Luis Obispo County court has unsealed the prosecution's statement of evidence in the case, and it's fairly damning.
The opioid crisis persists in San Francisco, and a new report confirms how dire the situation, with 344 accidental overdose deaths so far this year, and thousands of lives likely saved by Narcan.
Seasonal monsoonal moisture from the Southwest is moving across California today, bringing with it some chance of thunder and lightning, most likely concentrated closer to the Sierra and in the North Bay.
The Dixie Fire prompts more evacuations in Plumas County, a reckless driver crashed into multiple parked cars in the Richmond, and the CDC is considering revised mask guidance for vaccinated people in indoor spaces.
![[Update] SF Bar Coalition Announces Proof of Vaccination Will Be Required to Come Indoors Starting Thursday](https://img.sfist.com/2021/07/GettyImages-1265468202.jpeg)
As COVID-19 cases trend upward — with SF recently recording its highest number of new infections in one day since mid-January — the San Francisco Bar Owner Alliance's president announced at least 85% of local bar owners support requiring proof of vaccination for people drinking indoors.
On July 7, San Francisco animal control officers found themselves in an hours-long pursuit near Oracle Park that had them maneuvering through parked cars and across railroad tracks to retrieve Nieve, a white terrier mix. This past Friday, the very good doggo was reunited with her doting family.
New cases of COVID-19 are popping up in San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area in what is clearly a fourth wave of the pandemic, and everyone is clearly anxious and exhausted.
Two young white men were arrested after vandalizing a BLM mural in Santa Cruz, the Walgreens at 81st Avenue in Oakland is set to close (which could create a local “pharmacy desert”), and the Dixie Fire grew nearly 10,000 acres overnight — with its northeastern perimeter joining the Fly Fire.
Since starting July 14, the Dixie Fire has grown to over 181,289 acres in size — or roughly an area six times the acreage of San Francisco. And it's still only 19% contained.
An East Bay warehouse fire caused temporary outages Saturday morning, a body recovered in the San Pablo Bay is believed to belong to a local missing teen, and the pandemic absolutely worsened hunger in the Bay Area — with the SF-Marin food bank dealing out 80 million pounds of food in 2020, alone.
There's a small chance of dry lightning early next week, Monterey's beloved (and pun-filled) Artichoke Festival is slated to return this weekend, and all Stanford students enrolled in the fall semester must now show proof of vaccination before returning to class.
A disabled woman who can not walk due to multiple sclerosis says that 39-year-old Brandon Paillett walked into her apartment on Roosevelt Way in the Corona Heights neighborhood near the Castro on Tuesday night, muttering to himself, and refused to leave.
A Trader Joe's that's been in the planning stages pretty much forever for the new building at 555 Fulton just received its final approval from the SF Planning Commission.
![[Update] Elderly Woman Seriously Injured Following Alamo Square Hit and Run](https://img.sfist.com/2021/07/alamo-square-pierce-hit-run.jpg)
An 88-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle that then fled the scene near Alamo Square Park on Wednesday, July 21, and now an arrest has been made in the case.
