SF News Humpday Headlines: Murder Charges Filed In Richmond Infant's Death The repair of a washed-out section of Highway 1 in Big Sur may take a very long time, four people were arrested following a shootout and alleged stolen-car incident in Fremont, and the Contra Costa County DA has filed murder charges in last week's death of an infant in Richmond.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Oil Spill at Chevron's Richmond Refinery Leaking 5 Gal/Min Oil is currently leaking at Chevron's Long Wharf in Richmond, UC Berkeley students are occupying People's Park to protest a development there, and Salesforce made a bombshell announcement that could mean it will need far less office space in San Francisco in the near future.
SF Politics Contra Costa County DA Catches Heat From Business Owners Over Backyard Wedding She Hosted Last Summer Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton is the latest elected official in California to face a public outcry for their seemingly hypocritical behavior regarding pandemic-related public health rules.
SF News SF to Begin Phase 1B of Vaccinations in Two Weeks; Only One CA County Changes to 'Red' Tier While there seems to be steady improvement both in the COVID hospitalization picture and in case counts both in the Bay Area and statewide, no local county improved its tier status for reopening this week.
SF News SFMOMA Director Steps Down Amid Race Scandals and Financial Turmoil, Insists it Has Nothing To Do With That SFMOMA director Neal Benezra had 18 good years, and one pretty bad one, but will stick around long enough to pick his successor.
SF News 'Below Market Rate' Housing Units In San Francisco Found to Be Above Market Rate Right Now With apartments going for bargain prices around San Francisco in what will likely be a short-term dip in the rental market, so-called below-market-rate (BMR) housing is tied to other metrics, and renters can find better deals in the open the market right now.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink ClubFeast Offering $5.99 Restaurant Meals With Free Delivery to Your Door This past year, we’ve all become accustomed to ordering in food delivery for our own safety and sanity. But, is food delivery really as affordable, convenient, and supportive of your favorite
SF News COVID Outbreak Hits North Beach Catholic Church That Hosted Illegal Wedding A San Francisco church that violated state and local public health orders to host an indoor wedding ceremony with about 100 people last July — only to be caught in the act by city officials — is now the center of a COVID outbreak in its rectory.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Avalanche Deaths Hit Century Record San Francisco is still moving forward with its lawsuit against the school district, there were 14 avalanche deaths in the U.S. in just the first week of February, and the White House directly addressed recent attacks on Asian Americans in the Bay Area.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Old Navy Is Moving Back In With Gap Inc. The suspect in the deadly assault on an 84-year-old SF man is being held without bail, a GoFundMe for the DoorDash driver whose kids were briefly abducted has raised $120K, and Old Navy is shuttering its Mission Bay offices to move in with parent company Gap.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
SF News Court Clears Way for Condo Conversion on Property Where 100-Year-Old Woman was Evicted Iris Canada died at age 100 a month after her eviction in 2017, and the case that galvanized tenant activists just ended with a whimper of ‘Sure, build the condos.’
Arts & Entertainment 'Firefall' Phenomenon Expected to Return Friday in Yosemite, Last About 12 Days The annual, highly Instagrammable phenomenon known as the "firefall" that occurs at sunset in late February at Horsetail Fall is expected to begin again on February 12.
SF News Arrest Made In Assaults on Elderly Victims In Oakland's Chinatown A week after three Asian American seniors were brutally attacked on the streets of Oakland's Chinatown, police say they have arrested a person of interest whom they identified last week.
SF News Pandemic Updates: 793,000 Bay Area Residents Already Vaccinated; 307 ICU Beds Available Around Region 10.2% of Bay Area residents have gotten their first vaccine shot, and COVID hospitalizations continue trending downward both locally and statewide.
Business & Tech The State of Cannabis 2020: How Cannabis Consumers Responded to Crisis In 2020, cannabis consumers and the industry navigated the same tectonic changes facing all of America and the world: Covid-19 infections and the challenges of quarantine, massive demonstrations for racial justice, and a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Santa Clara County Sent Inspectors to Sports Bars on Super Bowl Sunday to Check COVID Compliance Lots of bars around the Bay Area had outdoor setups with tables for watching the Super Bowl on Sunday, some likely more safe than others. And in Santa Clara County, they had inspectors making surprise visits to enforce all the rules.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFPD Chief Calls On Carjacker-Kidnappers to Turn Themselves In A fire at an Oakland homeless encampment destroyed a nearby community center, actor Chris Pratt's Bay Area sheriff's deputy brother looks to be a far-right extremist, and a wrong-way driver caused a fatal crash on northbound 101 in Burlingame today.
SF News SF District Attorney Will Not File Charges in Mission District Police Killing of Jesus Delgado-Duarte On Friday, SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin chose not to file charges against the SFPD officers who fired at Jesus Delgado-Duarte back in March of 2018 at 21st and Capp streets; Duarte, who fired only once, was blasted by 99 bullets and died instantly.
SF News Oakland Zoo, Glowfari Have Reopened to the General Public A gentle reminder that the East Bay wildlife park began welcoming zoo visitors on February 3 and officially reopened its Glowfari festival — a wonderland of illuminated lanterns inspired by global fauna — this past Friday.
SF News Sunday Links: SF-Based Optimizely Puts SoMa Headquarters on Market The vaccination site at Moscone Center is completely booked, an Oakland woman was arrested after committing some $1M in coronavirus relief fraud, and Optimizely — an enterprise software company that occupies roughly 78,000 square feet at 631 Howard Street — is leasing its SF headquarters.
SF News Brazen Highway Robbery Caught on Camera in SoMa A thief jumped out of a moving Honda on Friday to smash the rear window of a Prius just as it was getting on the I-80 onramp on Bryant Street, and made off with a backpack containing a drone and camera equipment.
SF News SF Police Recover Abducted Children From Saturday Night Carjacking, Amber Alert; Suspect Still at Large, Considered 'Armed and Dangerous' Social media was alive last night with people sharing and retweeting pertinent information from an Amber Alert that was issued after a DoorDasher had his minivan stolen — with his two young kids inside. SFPD found the children and the stolen vehicle in Bayview around 1:15 a.m. Sunday.
SF News PG&E Reveals $3B Wildfire Safety Plan for 2021 Ahead of Possible 'Very Extreme' Season PG&E has been found responsible for around 1,500 wildfires — and that estimation was published back in 2019, well before last year’s dystopian wildfire season. Going into 2021, the utility company hopes its new multi-billion-dollar wildfire mitigation plan will help it spark fewer blazes.
SF News Levi's Stadium Is Slated to Become the Largest Mass Vaccination Site in California Next Week SF 49ers President Al Guido and the County of Santa Clara jointly announced Friday that Levi's Stadium will open this coming Tuesday as California’s largest COVID-19 vaccination site — and it's expected to inoculate more people daily than the immunization site at LA's Dodger Stadium.
