SF News 54-Year-Old Woman Goes Missing On Solo Camping Trip In Sierra National Forest A woman left behind a "disheveled" campsite and a smashed-up car after being on a solo camping trip near Chiquito Lake in the Sierra National Forest two weeks ago.
SF News Monday Morning Links: Sonoma County Closes Bars, Tasting Rooms, Indoor Dining Three more San Quentin inmates have died of COVID-19, an unidentified woman who was brought in to SF General Saturday night has been ID'd, and around 500 people took part in a Black Lives Matter march in Martinez on Sunday.
SF News East Bay Cities Push Back Against Outdoor Dining Suspension; Alameda County Now Placed on State’s County Monitoring List Announced Friday night, the Alameda County Public Health Department suspended outdoor dining in all of its cities — yet another harmful blow to the Bay Area’s already crippled gastronomic scene. But at least four cities in the region are now pushing back on that hiatus.
SF News SF Tech CEO Who Went on Racist Tirade Resigns From Company Michael Lofthouse, the CEO of the local tech startup Solid8 who was filmed yelling anti-Asian expletives at a dining family in Carmel Valley last weekend, has officially resigned due to growing backlash over his atrocious, racist behavior.
SF News Sunday Links: 55-Acre Brush Fire Contained in South Bay Dozens of firefighters were busy Saturday battling a 55-acre South Bay blaze, Santa Clara County Executive Officer Dr. Jeff Smith suggests that COVID-19 could soon overwhelm the state, and Oakland’s Fairyland is now in danger of permanently closing.
SF News SF Zoo Will Reopen Monday; Hair and Nail Salons, Museums To Stay Closed "We can't wait to see you!" reads a tweet published Friday by the SF Zoo in anticipation of Monday’s expected crowds (capped at 50 percent capacity). And, honestly: we've never been more overjoyed at the promise of seeing ring-tailed lemurs fling themselves through a series of aerial acrobatics.
SF News San Francisco Public Library To Reopen With Contact-Free 'SFPL To Go' Service Next Month All of SF's libraries have remained shut for months now, leaving bibliophiles to live with just SFPL's online services and catalogs. But starting next month, San Franciscans can again start checking out physical books and other tangible media via the newly proposed "SFPL To Go" service.
SF News Saturday Links: Three-Alarm Fire Engulfs Pacific Heights Apartment Building SF firefighters battled a large residential blaze last night in Pacific Heights that damaged four buildings, a Bay Area dog trainer has been charged with four felony counts of animal abuse, and both Oakland and Berkeley have ceased all outdoor dining amid swelling COVID-19 case numbers.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Head to Marin For Drive-Thru Fair Food Facebook might ban political ads (but only just before the election), California is looking to release 8,000 inmates from state prisons, and it's going to be HOT around the Bay this weekend.
Bay Area Sports Bye, Buster: Perhaps Wisely, Posey Says He's Opting Out Of the 2020 MLB Season The San Francisco Giants will be short a star catcher for their abbreviated, 60-game season beginning in two weeks, as Buster Posey just announced that he will be sitting this one out.
SF News Zillionth Version of High-Speed Rail Plan Introduced, Funding Totally Uncertain For just $714 million, riders will be able to get from SF to San Jose in a mere 45 minutes under the umpteenth iteration of the high-speed rail plan.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Chez Panisse Lawsuit Against Insurer Who Denied Pandemic Claim Could Become National Case Earlier this week, iconic Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse filed suit against its insurance company for denying a vital interruption-of-business claim. Founder and owner Alice Waters says she wouldn't be going to court unless this were a serious matter.
SF News Nurses At SF Hospitals Should Be Getting Regular COVID Tests. Why Aren't They? A spike in COVID-19 cases is happening among the staff at Zuckerberg SF General Hospital, and neither there nor at Kaiser Permanente's hospital in San Francisco are nurses who deal with COVID-positive patients getting mandatory, regular tests themselves. Why?
Arts & Entertainment Crowd Gathers For Annual 'Dolores Hill Bomb,' Smashes Windows Of Vehicle That Drove Into the Fray Thursday night was chosen as the occasion for the now annual skater community ritual of the Dolores Hill Bomb, in which daredevil skateboarders bomb their way down the hill on Dolores Street between 21st Street and 18th Street — sometimes ending in injury.
SF News Berkeley May Become the First City in the U.S. to Ban Police From Making Traffic Stops The City of Berkeley, which has often in its history been at the forefront of progressive movements, is considering a proposal that would remove all police from traffic enforcement, and create a new department that would use unarmed personnel to make traffic stops and issue tickets.
SF News San Francisco Sees Post-Holiday Spike With 171 New COVID Cases In One Day Once Thursday's numbers were in, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH) reported a jump in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city of 171 — a 4-percent uptick and two and a half times higher than the average daily new case count of the last two weeks.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Berkeley Bowl Employees Test Positive Multiple Berkeley Bowl employees have tested positive for COVID-19, Sonoma County (as predicted) has landed on the state's watch list, and a car crash sparked a brush fire on the Altamont Pass that shut down I-580 overnight.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Closures Hit Nizario's In Castro, The House In North Beach, Velvet Cantina in the Mission A 35-year-old pedestrian was struck and gravely wounded by a Muni bus in SoMa, fire evacuations will try to be COVID-safe, Newsom says, and several more beloved SF restaurants are closing for good.
SF News Virtual COVID-19 Conference, Attached To SF-Hosted AIDS Conference, To Feature 140 Studies On Friday On Friday, July 10, a day-long virtual conference on COVID-19 and research underway into how to treat the disease kicks off at 7:30 a.m., tacked on to the end of the annual International AIDS Conference which was supposed to be taking place — physically — in San Francisco.
SF News Borderlands Books Rocked By Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Allegations Against Owner After a horror and sci-fi podcast aired shocking accusations against Borderlands owner Alan Beatts, the local press has confirmed these charges from his daughter and ex-girlfriend.
SF News Mayor Breed, Supervisor Walton Both Test Negative For COVID-19, Will Get Tested Again After both potentially being exposed to the coronavirus this week, Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton have tested negative — though Breed says she will be tested again next week as a precaution.
SF News San Francisco's Iconic Cable Cars Likely To Stay Off the Streets Well Into 2021 Chalk it up to another — albeit temporary — casualty of the coronavirus pandemic. SF's beloved cable cars are going to remain offline indefinitely, likely until a vaccine puts a final end to the spread of the virus, and both operators and riders can be assured of safety.
SF News San Francisco Takes Steps To Find Long-Term Housing For Some Homeless Now In Hotels At least 200 of the homeless people currently residing in hotels due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be placed in long-term housing, subsidized by philanthropic funds for 18 months.
SF News Suspect Arrested In Sierra County Killing Of Danville Doctor Was Wanted On Two Felony Warrants Authorities have made public the name and arrest record of the suspect believed to have fatally shot a Bay Area doctor and father of three, in addition to randomly shooting two other people in Sierra County last Friday.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: COVID Cases Surge In South Lake Tahoe SCOTUS deals a blow to Trump and his fight to hide his financial records, homelessness is growing on the Peninsula, and parents and teachers protest school reopening plans in Oakland.
