As you've maybe heard: traffic on the Bay Bridge is starting to lift after a 50-plus-car caravan protest temporarily blocked the westbound lanes. But this weekend was also filled with dozens of other local nonviolent demonstrations, one being a "blackout march" at City Hall.
Protesters, reportedly in a car caravan, shut down the upper deck of the Bay Bridge early Sunday evening, creating a backup that extended past Treasure Island and into the East Bay.
Alas, it looks like New York City's Amy Cooper, who called the police on a black Harvard-educated bird watcher in Central Park back in May, might be upstaged by San Francisco skincare CEO Lisa Alexander after she was filmed criticizing a local man for writing "Black Lives Matter" outside his home.
Eric Thomas Larson was booked at the Marin County Jail Saturday in suspicion of starting a half-dozen brush fires — three of the six which burned near the Village Shopping Center — across Larkspur and Corte Madera this weekend that took dozens of firefighters hours to extinguish.
Bay Area communities are rallying behind local Black-owned businesses, the BART Board of Directors has given the OK for a mixed-use housing development near the West Oakland station, and as it turns out: self-swab COVID-19 tests are just as effective as those administered by a medical professional.
As we slowly transition back to a point of pre-coronavirus normalcy, counties across the state are seeing swells in COVID-19 cases. However, a California Health and Human Services (CHHS) official claims these spikes are because of increased testing — and not due to businesses reopening.
One windfall of the pandemic has been unmetered, ticket-free street parking in many Bay Area cities. But now, just like in San Francisco — where street sweeping ticketing will resume on June 15 — the City of Oakland is set to start enforcing certain parking regulations soon.
Hundreds showed up for a Women's March rally at Dolores Park yesterday afternoon to denounce both rampant racism and sexism, the Christopher Columbus statue at Coit Tower was vandalized Friday — its face and hands painted crimson red — and Zeitgeist unveiled their new socially distant "Zeit booths."
24-Hour Fitness is permanently closing 11 Bay Area locations including four in SF, the city is allowing offices to reopen with strict guidelines starting Monday, and volunteers are painting Black Lives Matter down Fulton Street near SF City Hall.
UPDATE: A BART board director who was Karen-ing pretty hard has deleted her Twitter after the local transit Twitterverse called for her to step down.
At least 37 healthcare workers at one hospital in Hayward tested positive for COVID-19 in late May, and a majority of them worked together in the same medical/surgical/telemetry unit.
News that there will in fact be no Coachella in October arrived on Thursday, confirming what had been rumored for weeks. And curiously, Outside Lands organizers have gone another week without addressing the obvious.
The relocation of at least a dozen people living in tents on sidewalks on Thursday appears to be part of a settlement just announced between UC Hastings — which sued the city last month over the increasing level of squalor in the neighborhood — and the City of San Francisco.
San Franciso Pride's virtual June 27–28 tribute to LGBTQ luminaries and queer solidarity now includes "the Queen of Bounce" Big Freedia as its headlining performer, with other notables like singer-songwriter Betty Who as well.
The Air Force sergeant suspected of killing a Santa Cruz sheriff's deputy last Saturday, had been ranting on social media and making references to an extremist group that espouses anti-government, anti-law-enforcement views.
True to form, BART has finally cleared miles of red tape and hurdled past legions of complications to extend train service to San Jose for the first time in the middle of a pandemic when South Bay commuters need it least. But they did it, dammit!
A cliff rescue was underway this morning near the Legion of Honor, a pedestrian was killed near the Bay Bridge toll plaza early today, and Kamala Harris has emerged as the likeliest running-mate pick for Joe Biden.
An alleged Chinese spy who infiltrated a lab at UCSF was just arrested, two teens are in critical condition after an Ocean Beach rescue, and rage-inducing BART Director Debora Allen apparently does not know that there were murder charges in the killing of Oscar Grant by BART police.
At least two dozen SF restaurants have announced plans to reopen, with a few ready to start taking guests as soon as Friday, June 12. We are keeping a list that will be updated in the coming days.
SF's Homeless Outreach Team (HOT) and the Department of Public Works were approaching about a dozen homeless people on the streets of the Tenderloin on Thursday, and offering them shuttle bus rides to a nearby hotel.
The full Frameline is still postponed til fall, but they’re filling your late June with an online mini-Frameline called “Frameline44 Pride Showcase”— which includes a drive-in show in Concord!
The old-timey Coca-Cola sign was removed and carted away on Wednesday, and it looks like It's Tops on Market Street has served its last 2 a.m. hot cakes.
Neighbor disputes, mental health crises, and complaints about the homeless will no longer be part of the purview of the San Francisco Police Department under a new four-point plan unveiled by the mayor on Thursday.
Saturday will see the restoration of several bus routes, and increased frequencies on the bus shuttle routes currently replacing Muni Metro service. Also, street cleaning begins again next week, and tickets will start being issued once more.
Oakland police tally up the damage from May 29, the SF DA's office is investigating the shoving of a protester by a sheriff's deputy, and Oakland schools are going to remove all cops.
