SF News Day Around the Bay: Explaining Why California Catches Fire The governor declares states of emergency for Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, Airbnb hosts offer free housing to fire victims and rescue workers, and Uber is moving to Mission Bay.
SF News Purple Sea Urchins Continue To Decimate West Coast’s Kelp Forests Hundreds of millions of eggplant-colored sea urchins are devouring our state’s pristine, undulating kelp forests by the literal mile. Now, their insatiable stampede seems to be ascending northern California's coastline, reaching as far as Oregon.
SF News Weekend Power Shutoffs To Impact Large Parts of Alameda, Contra Costa, and Marin Counties The latest map of potentially impacted areas in the upcoming weekend public safety power shutoffs by PG&E includes wide swaths of every Bay Area county except San Francisco.
Bay Area Sports Affluent Crowd Quiet, Leaves Early as Warriors Get Waxed in Chase Center Debut The Warriors left their home court advantage in Oakland, as the roars of ‘Roaracle Arena’ quickly quieted in a 141-122 blowout loss to begin their tenure at the Chase Center.
Arts & Entertainment Five Rad Halloween Parties To Check Out In SF It's one of those Halloweens where the actual holiday falls deep into the week after a weekend that will be filled with Halloween parties, so for die-hards, this is going to mean two or three different costumes.
SF News Smoke From Kincade Fire Begins Drifting Toward San Francisco Bay While air quality in San Francisco on Friday remained good, that may be changing as the cloud of smoke from the Kincade Fire near Geyserville grows and shifts tonight into Saturday.
SF News 21-Year-Old Woman Fatally Shot in Merced Manor Neighborhood A shooting that we learned about on Thursday in a residence across the street from Lowell High School turns out to have been a fatal one, after a 21-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.
SF News Dead Baby Found at San Jose Garbage-Sorting Facility A deceased infant was found on a conveyor belt amid trash and recyclables Friday morning at a waste-sorting facility in San Jose.
SF News PG&E Stock Tanks Anew Following Kincade Fire News PG&E's stock is hitting new lows Friday following news that one of its transmission lines may have again been responsible for a destructive wildfire, as it continues to try to emerge from bankruptcy.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Felicity Huffman Leaves Jail Early Highway 1 remains closed near Muir and Stinson Beaches due to the Muir Fire, the power has been turned back on for "nearly all" customers in the latest shutoff, and one member of the Kendall-Jackson Winery family lost her home in the Kincade Fire.
SF News [Update] Kincade Fire Reaches 5 Percent Containment, Burns 21,900 Acres The fire near Geyserville was at 5 percent containment as of Friday morning, and meanwhile meteorologists are warning of an "extreme wind event" starting Saturday night, unlike anything we've had since 2017.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Twitter's Stock Tanks, Tesla's Soars Short-sellers lost over a billion dollars on Tesla stock today after the company reported profits, the SFPD responded to a shooting across from Lowell High, and it was hot hot hot all over the Bay.
Business & Tech Stripe Is Leaving Its San Francisco Headquarters for South San Francisco South San Francisco as the new tech hub? Stripe just made the first move, heading for the biotech office park land where they’ll pay no payroll or gross receipts taxes.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Beit Rima Readies Cole Valley Location, Will Open Third Spot In Daly City Arabic comfort food hit Beit Rima is getting set to open a second location in the former Burgermeister space in Cole Valley next month, and now we learn that another Burgermeister location in Daly City will become Beit Rima as well.
SF News [Update] PG&E Tower 'Malfunctioned' Right Near Where Kincade Fire Started This seems big. The Chronicle is reporting in late-breaking news that a PG&E transmission tower "malfunctioned near the origin point of the dangerous Kincade Fire." While the cause of the fire is still unknown, this is a terrible development for the utility.
SF News More Wildfires Break Out In Vacaville and Richmond It's Fire Everywhere Day apparently, and on top of vegetation fires on the Marin Coast and in up in Santa Rosa and the major wildfire burning near Geyserville, a fire next to I-80 in Vacaville is causing a traffic backup, and another small fire has broken out near I-580 in Richmond.
SF News Sound Art Installation Simulates the Sinking and Tilting of Millennium Tower A new piece of sound art installed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) means to mimic and/or satirize the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, and the artists who created it say the piece will remain in place "until the building falls or the building is fixed."
SF News Brush Fire Breaks Out Between Muir and Stinson Beaches Yet another wildfire has broken out Thursday morning, this one on the Marin County coast just south of Stinson Beach.
SF News Kincade Fire Grows To Over 10,000 Acres In Northern Sonoma County, Destroying Homes A fast-moving wildfire began Wednesday night near Geyserville and The Geysers, threatening vineyards, prompting evacuations, and already causing damage to or destroying at least a dozen homes.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: PG&E Field Worker Shot At With Pellet Gun Around 35,000 PG&E customers are without power in the Bay Area, BART had major delays this morning, and more facts emerged in the Laguna Honda patient-abuse case.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Reward Offered For Information In Santa Cruz CEO Murder Multiple suspects are still at large in the case of the Oct. 1 murder of Tushar Atre in Santa Cruz, an elderly pedestrian was killed in Oakland this morning, and the victim in Monday night's homicide in the Tenderloin has been identified.
SF News More, Wider-Spread Power Shutoffs Likely Coming To Bay Area Sunday After shutoffs that have already gotten underway in Sonoma and Napa counties and elsewhere Wednesday, with more to begin Wednesday night, weather models suggest windy conditions that could lead to power shutoffs for an even wider swath of Northern California on Sunday and Monday.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Go Eat This: Smoked Game Hen at Dear Inga Dear Inga is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern Europe, and specifically to chef David Golovin's grandmother, and the three-week-old restaurant has already proven itself a welcome addition to the already food-destination-worthy 18th Street corridor.
SF News Arrest Made In July Assault On Two Elderly People In Chinatown One of three suspects believed responsible for an assault and robbery that left two elderly members of the Chinatown community injured has been arrested, according to the SFPD.
SF News A Meth Sobering Center Is Coming to SF in the Next Few Months The San Francisco Methamphetamine Task Force recommends a slew of actions, and Mayor Breed has immediately OK’d a city-run meth sobering center along the lines of the alcohol sobering center it already has.
