SF News Party House Rental In Sonoma Became Scene of 4 a.m. Shooting That Damaged Homes A vacation rental just outside the city limits of Sonoma played host to a Friday night party with dozens of guests from outside the county, and the party ended with at least 30 shots fired.
SF News Dozens of Rich White Kids Got 'Inappropriate Admissions’ to UC Berkeley, Says State Audit Another “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal hits UC Berkeley, as a new audit finds students from households with donor and staff connections inappropriately cruised through the admissions process.
SF News Bay Area Now 78% 'Red' On State's COVID-19 Reopening Map As of Tuesday, three more Bay Area counties joined the four already in the second or "red" tier of the state's pandemic monitoring map, meaning that they're eligible to reopen indoor dining, churches, and gyms at limited capacity, and more.
SF Politics Former SF Supervisor David Campos Takes Job as DA's Chief of Staff The former SF supervisor who preceded Hillary Ronen in representing the Mission and Bernal Heights, David Campos, has just landed a new gig working for District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
SF News Looking For an Apartment In San Francisco? Ask For a Lot Because Landlords Are Desperate Three months free rent? No problem. Free Peloton bike? Totally on the table. Prospective tenants are getting all kinds of concessions as SF rents fall 20-percent year over year.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Romney's No Hero A vegetation fire prompted evacuations in Belmont yesterday, Trump is still saying the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody," and Facebook is ready to lock down communication amid post-election violence and unrest.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Hot Weather This Weekend Could Bring More Scary Winds The CDC was once again dicking around regarding COVID transmission guidance, there's a vigil tonight for a 16-year-old Oakland girl killed last week, and a WWII bomber crash-landed in Stockton on Saturday on its way back from Hawaii.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Bars Mixing Up Their Cocktail Delivery Methods to Avoid App Platforms’ Highball Fees The arguably exploitative business model of companies like Postmates and DoorDash has inspired some spirited innovations from bars and booze businesses, and some are turning to old-fashioned methods.
Arts & Entertainment Insanely, Cruise Companies Are Looking at Sailing Again as Soon as November San Francisco isn't likely to see cruise ships in the Bay anytime before next spring at the very earliest, but cruise companies are already talking about October 31 being a possible restart date for an industry that just five months ago was synonymous with contagion.
SF News Two Days After the City Pledged a Crackdown, Sideshow With 100 Cars Goes Down In Bayview Another illegal sideshow happened around 1 a.m. Sunday in the Bayview District, during which some shots were fired — possibly just into the air. The SFPD apparently didn't make it there fast enough to shut it down right away, even though they established a new unit for this last week.
SF News Video: Mountain Lion Seen Stalking Little Kids In Broad Daylight In Pacifica Over the weekend, a Pacifica resident captured video of a mountain lion — possibly a juvenile — crouched in his yard apparently watching children playing on their bikes outside.
Bay Area Sports 49ers' Depleted Roster Sustains More Injuries in 31-13 Win Against Jets The San Francisco 49ers will be less concerned with going through game film Monday as they are with what doctors have to say about newly sustained injuries to even more essential Niners players.
SF News Rash of Home Burglaries Rattles North Beach, Other SF Neighborhoods San Francisco residents in multiple neighborhoods report signs and stories of multiple burglaries, as thieves may be trying to take advantage of a large percentage of residents who have temporarily fled the city.
SF News SF, North Bay Air Quality to Improve By Monday Afternoon as Marine Air Kicks Up Cool air will prevail for most of this week, as the marine layer off the San Francisco coast gathers some strength after remaining pretty weak for two days. But then more hot weather may be on its way.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SF Catholics Protest Ban on Indoor Worship Pelosi says "we would win it all" if the election were tomorrow, damages are being assessed in the North Complex fire, and hospitals in the Bay Area say they are starting to see their first flu cases of the season.
SF News Federal Judge Blocks Executive Order Banning WeChat After Rare Saturday Hearing in San Francisco After an unusual Saturday afternoon hearing in SF, a federal judge entered an order that temporarily blocked a Trump Administration mandate banning "downloads" of the Chinese-owned global messaging app WeChat — keeping it in popular app stores for at least a little while longer.
SF News 'Karen'-Inspired Billboard Pops Up in SF To Call Out Rude Online Restaurant Reviewers Bay Area eateries have been plagued by a recent onslaught of piss-poor reviews on sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor — not related to food, mind you... but in regards to enforcing mandated COVID-19 safety measures and issues with third-party delivery drivers.
SF News Sunday Links: Father and Son Rescued Off Cliff at Fort Funston A father and son were rescued off a cliff at Fort Funston Saturday after attempting to climb down it to the water below, a string of sexual battery cases has shaken the otherwise sleepy Sea Cliff neighborhood, and a huge crowd of generally unmasked people gathered at Fort Mason yesterday afternoon.
SF News 'Shifting' Wind Conditions Bring Smoke and Poor Air Quality Back to Bay Area Skies Get your last inhales of cool, crisp, breathable air this afternoon — because smokey horizons and worsening air conditions are likely to be over our heads again later this evening.
SF News Photos: SF Mourns the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg With Impromptu Candlelight Vigil and March Friday night around 7 p.m., hundreds gathered at The Castro's Harvey Milk Plaza — hearts heavy, tears in their eyes, covering lit wicks from modest breezes — to both mourn and celebrate the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
SF News Saturday Links: City Health Inspectors Help Ready for SF School Reopenings SFDPH health inspectors have started assessing schools in the city ahead of in-class teaching, Oakland's youths are rallying to save the planet, and a woman was hospitalized this week after a coyote bit her on the leg at a remote Marin County beach.
SF Politics Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is Dead. We're All Doomed. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87 of complications from the recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer that she first revealed in July.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Some Dude Tried to Carjack an Ambulance in the Tenderloin Don't expect all small restaurants (like Frances) to rush open if they're allowed to at 25% capacity, a suspect is in custody after a mid-day stabbing on BART, and a male suspect tried to carjack an ambulance in the Tenderloin early Friday morning.
SF News A Company Called 'Snowflake' Projected Its Name On City Hall, and the City is Now Mad A San Mateo-based "cloud-based data-warehousing startup" found a vendor that claimed they could project the company's name on the SF City Hall dome on Wednesday night in celebration of their IPO, and city officials don't understand how this happened.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mission District LGBTQ Bar El Rio Wins Grant to Stay Afloat From HRC and Showtime Some good news for the world of SF queer bars for a change! El Rio has just won a grant from the Human Rights Commission and Showtime's "Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative," which will hopefully help the bar stay afloat as it continues to remain closed.
