SF News Day Around the Bay: SFO Launches COVID Testing Pilot For Arriving International Passengers A 75-year-old woman was knocked down and critically injured by a fleeing shoplifter in the Outer Mission, former homelessness czar Jeff Kositsky is leaving City Hall entirely, and SFO is giving free COVID rapid-testing and variant-testing kits to arriving international passengers.
SF News Man's Body Found at SFO Near BART Station Saturday afternoon, SFO officials announced a body was found near the airport's parking garage, close to the SFO BART Station; the unidentified body is reported to be male, but no age range has been given.
Business & Tech JetBlue Flight Bound for SFO Gets Diverted Due to Unruly, Drug-Snorting Passenger A JetBlue flight from New York's JFK Airport to SFO had to be diverted to Minneapolis on Sunday when an unmasked, reportedly very smelly passenger onboard became unruly, harassing and annoying other passengers.
SF News Shootout at SFO Grand Hyatt Likely Connected to Carjacking Attempt; Investigation Continues A dramatic Monday evening shooting outside the new Grand Hyatt hotel at San Francisco International Airport involved at least two gunmen, and the suspects apparently tried to carjack a new getaway vehicle right around the time of the shooting.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: SFO Begins Runway Work That Will Spur Delays SFO began repaving work on one of its runways today that will cause domestic delays for 4 months, the East Bay may soon be talking about water-use restrictions, and Stanford students continue protesting athletics cuts.
SF News Monday Morning Headlines: SFO Saw Double Its Usual Pandemic Traffic Over the Weekend The newly passed stimulus bill leaves out direct aid for state and local governments, Governor Gavin Newsom is quarantining again after a possible COVID exposure, and tens of thousands passed through SFO over the weekend despite public health warnings about travel.
SF Politics New Ordinance Will Require SFO Employers to Provide Healthcare to More Workers SF's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a new ordinance requiring many employers with workers at SFO — including catering workers, cabin cleaners, and baggage handlers — to pay for healthcare family plans for those workers.
SF News Bay Area May Tell Inbound Travelers to Quarantine For 14 Days Health officers in the nine Bay Area counties will be meeting Thursday to discuss possibly instituting a 14-day quarantine rule for all those traveling here from parts of the country that are experiencing surges in COVID-19 cases — similar to one instituted in New York State.
SF News First COVID Rapid-Testing Site For Airport Workers In the U.S. Comes to SFO San Francisco International Airport just became the first airport in the U.S. to offer rapid COVID-19 testing to all airport and airline employees, with results in an hour or less.
SF News SFO BART Station Closed Due to 'Police Matter,' Reopened Wednesday Morning No trains were going in or out of BART's SFO Station for about an hour Wednesday morning due to an unspecified "police matter" that has yet to be made public.
SF Politics Trump Spends Morning Tweeting About Transit Funds That Were Announced a Month Ago In an effort to change the conversation away from his moronic decision to take the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to fend off the coronavirus, President Trump was on Twitter this morning "announcing" month-old transit funding allocations from the CARES Act.
SF News UCSF Scientist Documents Completely Full United Flight From Newark to San Francisco Prior to the flight's departure, passengers received an email from United saying that the airline would uphold social distancing practices and block middle seating. But a UCSF medical professional found himself in a much different scenario — sat inside a completely booked, crowded cabin.
SF News Plane Travel Slowly Returns, With Masks, Distancing, and Some Virus Profiteering One airline gets publicly dragged for charging a ‘More Room’ fee for social distancing, as the airline industry awkwardly adapts to the logistics of travel under COVID-19.
SF News Inbound SFO Passengers Not Facing Any Special Screening After stories Sunday of extremely long lines at a number of U.S. airports as international travelers waited for special Customs screenings, Customs at SFO was apparently business as usual today.
SF News Alaska Airlines Gate Agent at SFO Tests Positive For Coronavirus An employee of Alaska Airlines, reportedly a ticketing or gate agent for the airline at San Francisco International Airport, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News San Francisco Flu Patients Will Undergo Testing For Coronavirus In an ever-evolving news cycle around the novel coronavirus, San Francisco flu patients will start being tested for the disease as part of an "early warning system" enacted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: SFO Reopens Its Observation Deck The star witness in the Hillsborough heiress murder case is now in federal custody, Colin Kaepernick is writing a memoir for Audible, and SFO is about to reopen a public observation deck at Terminal 2 for the first time in 25 years.
SF News All Flights Between SFO and China Will Stop For At Least Six Weeks Starting late next week, there will be no flights at all landing from China at SFO, and no way to fly directly there from San Francisco either, as the coronavirus crisis worsens.
SF News Walking Through SFO Currently 'Like Stepping Into a Contagion Movie'; Expect Six-Hour Customs Lines Unless you have Mobile Passport and other enhancements, and especially if you're arriving from Asia, the customs situation for international travelers at SFO is currently lengthy and scary and straight out of contagion-disaster films.
SF News Cambodian-American Mistakenly Deported After Marijuana Conviction Returns to California Via SFO A Cambodian-born man who had come to the U.S. with his parents at the age of 1, and who had been a U.S. citizen since he was 12 years old but was nonetheless targeted for deportation, returned home to California on Wednesday via San Francisco.
Business & Tech United Airlines Suspends 48 China Flights, Including 8 Routes From SFO, Amid Virus Outbreak The quickly spreading coronavirus outbreak in China is set to begin impacting air travel to Asia as United Airlines just announced it is suspending 48 flights between the U.S. and China.
SF News SamTrans Being Blamed For Dumping SFO's Homeless On Embarcadero There's a weird story today in which a San Francisco supervisor is pointing the finger at San Mateo County and the SamTrans bus agency for intentionally shuttling homeless people out of SFO and dropping them off at 2 a.m. at the new "end of the line" near the Embarcadero.
SF News Sunday Links: Cargo Plane Returns To SFO After Bird Strike A China Air 747 cargo plane hit a bird shortly after taking off from SFO yesterday, new data shows that there are probably thousands of empty homes in the Bay Area, and a candlelight vigil will be held today for the laptop theft victim at the Montclair Starbucks off Mountain Boulevard.
SF News Four-Plus-Hour Flight Delays Reported At SFO As Vacationers Head Back Home The "perfect storm" of hazardous weather conditions and thousands of vacation travelers returning back to the Bay Area caused major flight delays at SFO Saturday, with even more delays (and cancellations) expected today.
SF News Three SF Supes Among 50 Arrested At SFO Protest For Higher Catering Wages 50 people were arrested Tuesday, including three SF supervisors, for failing to disperse from a sit-in at SFO's Terminal 2 pushing for higher wages and more affordable healthcare for airline catering workers.
