SF Politics SFPUC Chief Harlan Kelly Charged with Fraud in Expanding City Hall Scandal, Has Home Raided by FBI Bigger fish are frying in the ever-expanding Mohammed Nuru DPW scandal, as the head of SF’s Public Utilities Commission has his home raided, gets charged with fraud, and possibly faces 20 years in prison.
SF News Non-Police ‘Street Crisis Response Team’ Launches Today in Tenderloin It’s sort of like “Care Not Cops,” as the hopefully less escalatory Street Crisis Response Team starts its Mental Health SF pilot program today for non-violent incident response.
SF News Newsom: 'Red Flags Are Flying' With COVID Hospitalizations, Stricter Stay-at-Home Order Could Be Coming With 75 percent of ICU beds now occupied across the state and 72 percent occupied in the Bay Area, Governor Gavin Newsom warned of a stricter stay-at-home order possibly to come within days for the 51 "Purple" tier counties in California.
SF News SF Archbishop Continues Whining About COVID Restrictions On Worship, Says Legal Action Not Off the Table SF Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will not remain quiet about city and state public-health restrictions inhibiting him and the church from holding in-person services, as he insists upon being on the wrong side of history during a pandemic, for God's sake.
Bay Area Sports Now 'Homeless' 49ers Stoke Playoff Hopes With Season Sweep of Los Angeles Rams Four forced turnovers propelled the 49ers to a 23-20 victory over the Rams Sunday night in LA, as team officials scrambled to find new facilities amidst emerging coronavirus restrictions from Santa Clara County.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Rapper Lil Yase Killed In Shooting Near East Dublin BART Station Bay Area rapper Lil Yase, who was known for his mixtapes and singles including "Get It In" and "No Diss," was shot and killed early Saturday near the East Dublin/Pleasanton BART station under mysterious circumstances.
SF News 25-Year-Old San Francisco Woman Killed In East Oakland Saturday Night A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in Saturday night shootings in East Oakland that took place within minutes of each other.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Golden Gate Park Ferris Wheel Shuts Down San Francisco added 521 COVID cases since Thanksgiving, the percentage of homes on the market in SF with reduced listings hits nine-year high, and the UC application deadline has been extended after a technical glitch.
Bay Area Sports 49ers Might Play Three Remaining 'Home' Games in Arizona When Santa Clara County announced it would enter into the state's "purple" tier of COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday, it effectively shuttered any chance of the 49ers playing at Levi's Stadium. Now, it's possible they'll play their remaining three home games at Arizona's State Farm Stadium.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Millbrae's Iconic Pancake House Closes Temporarily Due to COVID-19 The pandemic continues to serve one gut-punch after the other — with today's closing of the over 61-year-old Millbrae Pancake House being one of the more recent blows.
SF News Sunday Links: 'Purple' Tier Restrictions To Go Into Effect at Noon San Francisco will roll back (or reduce) capacity for certain activities today at noon, one of the largest COVID-19 testing efforts in the city started Sunday in the Mission, and United Airlines has begun shipping Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on charter flights.
SF News It's Official: San Francisco Enters 'Purple' Tier as Local COVID-19 Cases Surge The other shoe finally dropped at noon Saturday when Mayor Breed took to Twitter to announce that SF has fallen into the state's "purple" tier status — and will comply with California's limited stay-at-home curfew (which requires people to stay indoors from 10:00 p.m. to 5 a.m.) starting Monday.
SF News San Francisco Rolls Out Virtual Assistant Tool To Help Improve Contact Tracing As announced by City health officials Friday, San Francisco is now using mobile data technology to better its contact tracing efforts; the new virtual assistant tool from California will be used by SF's 200 contact tracers.
SF News Saturday Links: One-Alarm Fire Breaks Out Near Russian Hill A one-alarm fire broke out Friday night around 8:30 p.m. near Russin Hill, two people died in a deadly Sacramento mall shooting yesterday, and the CDC will vote next week on who will receive Pfizer's vaccine first and how it will be distributed.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SantaCon 2020 Has Been Canceled Oakland's Slow Streets program has helped reduce the number of traffic-related injuries since the program started, LA officially adopted a new stay-at-home order Friday, and organizers of SantaCon 2020 have canceled the annual bar-hopping event — a welcomed bit of good news for the day.
Arts & Entertainment Bay Area Teen Artist Gets Phone Call From Kamala Harris After Portrait Goes Viral 14-year-old Tyler Gordon of San Jose painted a portrait of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and posted a time-lapse video of himself painting it on Twitter — asking for retweets in the hope of getting Harris's attention. And he got it!
SF News Two-Year Construction Traffic Nightmare to Begin Monday on 19th Avenue It’s real name is the 19th Avenue Combined City Project, but Sunset District residents and motorists will probably have other words for this water- and sewer-line overhaul slated to last until 2023.
SF News Four-Year-Old Girl Swept Out to Sea In High Surf at Marin County Beach A four-year-old girl was swept into the ocean by a large wave on Thanksgiving Day in West Marin and drowned.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Technical Glitch Causes Delivery Disaster for Good Eggs In San Francisco, As Turkeys Failed To Arrive For Thanksgiving San Francisco-based grocery delivery startup Good Eggs left an unknown number of customers high and dry with nothing to eat on Thanksgiving — forcing some on last-minute grocery runs and others ordering takeout and fuming on social media.
SF News Santa Clara County Begins Running Low on ICU Beds Amid COVID Surge Santa Clara County's ICU bed capacity was rapidly filling up this week amid a surge in COVID cases around the region.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Candelabra Tree Survives CZU Fires There's no rain in the forecast for the next week or two, an apartment fire displaced 17 in Fremont, and park rangers have reached the Candelabra Tree in Butano State Park in San Mateo County and say it is mostly unscathed from the recent CZU fires.
SF News Thanksgiving Links: UCSF Workers to Be Among First In Country to Get Pfizer Vaccine Glide Memorial Church's annual Thanksgiving meal is happening outdoors, UCSF is among seven CA hospitals first in line for the COVID vaccine, and the Golden Gate Bridge parking lots are closed through the weekend.
SF News Day Around the Bay: San Jose Stabbing Suspect Had Been Deported Three Times Homeless San Jose murder suspect Fernando Jesus Lopez was reportedly deported three times, BART has reached an agreement with its unions, and ne'er-do-wells are shooting Bernal outdoor diners with paintballs.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF's Own Mary Risley Would Like to Remind All Amateur Cooks: 'Just Put the Fu**ing Turkey In the Oven' It's been a few years since SFist has reposted local cooking school founder Mary Risley's delightful advice for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey — and it bears repeating in a year when a lot of people may be trying to do this for the first time at home and not with family.
Arts & Entertainment Take a Walking Tour of SF's Illuminated Art Installations This Holiday Season Illuminate SF, the organization that brought us The Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge, has a "Festival of Light" this holiday season that spans many corners of the city — and it's the perfect excuse for a pandemic-friendly urban hike after dark.
