SF News Entire West Coast Marijuana Crop Threatened By Fire, Smoke, and Ash In not just California, but Oregon and Washington too, where even cannabis plants that are hundreds of miles from the fires suffer smoke damage that renders the pot unsmokable.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Glass Fire Being Called Worst In Napa History, With Hundreds of Homes and at Least 20 Wineries Damaged or Destroyed While fire activity in the Glass Fire continues to be calmer than it was just days ago, the fallout from the fire is still being assessed — and the economic impacts to both the wine industry and Napa and Sonoma counties at large may be far greater than the size of the fire may suggest.
SF News John McAfee Back in the News After Arrest In Spain Onetime Bay Area kook turned global kook/accused murderer and tax evader John McAfee has been arrested in Spain and will apparently be extradited to the U.S. soon to face tax evasion charges.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Judge Reverses EPA Reversal On Redwood City Salt Ponds Containment on the Glass Fire has reached 50 percent, a UCSF infectious disease specialist balks at Trump's behavior after leaving Walter Reed, and a judge rules against the EPA regarding the Cargill salt ponds in the Bay.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Alameda County to Reopen Oscar Grant Shooting Investigation The Wednesday debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Mike Pence will feature a plexiglass shield, the remains of a missing 75-year-old Berkeley woman may have been found in Humboldt County, and the Alameda County DA's office is reopening the Oscar Grant case.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Nominates Controversial Owner of Manny's to SFMTA Board Cafe owner, activist, and lightning-rod for leftie quarrelling Manny Yekutiel is London Breed’s new nominee for one of two empty spots on the SFMTA board.
SF News Petaluma Man Believed To Have Killed Girlfriend Allegedly Kills Himself By Speeding the Wrong Way Onto 101 A Petaluma man who's believed to have killed his girlfriend on Friday died in a fiery motorcycle crash with another vehicle after he sped northbound onto the southbound lanes of Highway 101.
SF Politics Of Course Trump Is Using His COVID Infection to Tell the Country 'Don't Be Afraid of COVID.' You Can Bet He's Afraid. True to form, President Trump used Twitter and his recent, clearly very serious case of COVID-19 to once again politicize the pandemic and tell his followers "Don't be afraid of COVID."
Bay Area Sports Mediocre Mullens Benched, Beathard Comes Close As Niners Drop Sunday Night Game To Winless Eagles The 49ers fell to 0-2 at Levi’s Stadium this season with a 25-20 loss Sunday Night to the previously winless Philadelphia Eagles. The Carson Wentz led Eagles, reeling from a handful of their own injuries, were able to upset the Niners on their home field for the first time since 2010.
Arts & Entertainment Karla the Fog Steps In as Unofficial Twitter Replacement After Karl Goes Quiet In a year of constant talk in the media about increasing the visibility and amplifying the voices of women and people of color, SF's famed weather mascot has been — at least for now — replaced by a woman.
SF News Union Square Homicide Has Link to Home Invasion Robbery In East Bay A 21-year-old man who was killed near Union Square last week was wanted in connection with a May home invasion robbery in Fremont — and police had been looking for him for months.
SF News Glass Fire Reaches 30% Containment as Some Evacuation Orders Are Lifted Predicted high winds never materialized late last week or over the weekend, and firefighters were able to raise containment levels and tamp down the Glass Fire threat for much of Sonoma County. On the Napa side, Calistoga was able to breathe easy Sunday as the fire shifted east.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: Family Of Oscar Grant Wants Second BART Officer Charged A UCSF doctor has called Trump's motorcade stunt outside the hospital on Sunday "massively irresponsible," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany has now tested positive for COVID-19, and California just crossed the 4 million mark for acres burned this year.
Arts & Entertainment The Castro's Renowned GLBT Historical Society Museum Now Open to the Public Over the past few days, many of San Francisco's bastions for arts and culture have started to emerge from their SIP-spun chrysalises, welcoming the public back into their hallowed halls — and The Castro's beloved GLBT Historical Society Museum is among one of them.
SF News Mountain Lion Cub Orphaned by Zogg Fire Being Treated at Oakland Zoo for Burns A mountain lion cub — that's likely no more than six weeks old — was recently transported to the Oakland Zoo after sustaining life-threatening burns from the Zogg Fire in Shasta County; a team of veterinarians at the zoological institution are working around the clock to treat his wounds.
SF News Sunday Links: Bay Area Air Quality Expected To Approach 'Unhealthy' Levels "Unhealthy" air conditions are expected in San Francisco and elsewhere today, local rents continue to drop in price at record amounts, and the next day or two will prove "critical" as President Trump continues fighting an active — and some believe to be severe — COVID-19 infection.
SF News SF's KitTea Cafe on One of Its Last Lives as Tea Room Fights To Stay Afloat San Francisco's first (and only) cat cafe — where you could once hear cats purr while your tea cooled — is clawing and clamoring to stay open amid slow foot traffic and needing to meet its high overhead costs that are required to keep its rescue cats fed, healthy, and properly sheltered.
SF News Suspect Detained in Earlier Kidnapping and Attempted Rape of Elderly SF Woman SFPD stated Friday that a thirty-something-year-old man was arrested in relation to an earlier kidnapping and attempted rape of a local elderly woman in SF's Inner Sunset neighborhood.
SF News Saturday Links: Instagram-Famous Hello Kitty Truck Will Stop in San Francisco This Month Kellyanne Conway announced she has also tested positive for COVID-19, the Instagram-famous Hello Kitty Truck is heading to San Francisco this month, and the Glass Fire has ballooned to over 62,000 acres as of Saturday morning — and the blaze is currently just 10 percent contained.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Pelosi Tests Negative for COVID-19 Despite Prior Meeting With Mnuchin House Speaker Pelosi on Friday tested negative for COVID-19 after having attended a previous meeting with Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, 85-year-old Harrington's Bar & Grill is closing, and SF is now moving the homeless out of shelter-in-place hotel rooms... and into more affordable types of housing.
SF News Oakland Police Chief Says Pandemic to Blame For Major Uptick In Homicides Oakland is on track to record more homicides this year than in any of the last five years, and the reason for the steep jump in gun violence is directly correlated to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the city's interim police chief.
SF Politics Dialysis AGAIN? Why There Is Yet Another Dialysis Measure on the California Ballot California's healthcare unions are taking another shot at “Big Dialysis” after a failed 2018 measure, and get ready for TV ads, as the franchise clinics are outspending the unions 16-1.
SF Politics SF Public Health Director to Trump: Your Flagrant Disregard For Science Has Caught Up With You SF's Department of Public Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax minced no words in reacting to President Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, which was revealed late Thursday night.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 17-Year-Old Oakland Restaurant Dopo Closes; Owners Say Government Failed Them Beloved Piedmont Avenue Italian spot Dopo will serve its last lasagna on Saturday, and the owners say that not enough has been done by federal, state, and local governments to prevent a mass die-off of restaurants.
SF News Firefighters Still Bracing For High Winds After Calm Night Fighting Glass Fire; Containment Reaches 6 Percent Forecasted gusty winds failed to materialize with the new Red Flag Warning Thursday night, allowing fire crews in the North Bay to beef up containment lines on the Glass Fire and prevent any further structure damage.
