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Tuesday Morning Topline: SFO Catering Workers To Protest Today

A 55-year-old man was arrested after yelling threats at SFSU, dozens of vehicles have been hit with projectiles along the same stretch of 101 in Monterey County, and airline catering workers will be protesting on the departures level at SFO today ahead of a possible strike.

SFO Will Allow More Ubers To Do Curbside Pick-ups — If You Pay Extra

After relegating most rideshares to the upper deck of the short-term parking garage back in June, the airport is starting a pilot program with Uber ahead of the holiday travel season to allow riders to pay extra to get picked up at the curb.

Riding BART to SFO Would Get You In TSA Priority Lane Under New Proposal

BART is actively trying to incentivize getting to SFO via train, rather than Uber or Lyft or private vehicle, and they want to give riders access to the TSA Priority lane at security via a scan of their Clipper card.

Friday Morning Constitutional: SFO Runway Officially Reopens

There was a report of shots fired on the San Jose State campus not long after a heavily armed student was arrested Thursday, nurses are on strike at three East Bay hospitals, and Bill DeBlasio has dropped out of the 2020 race.

SFO Delays Might Lessen This Weekend As Runway Work Gets Ahead Of Schedule

Crews at work on rebuilding and repaving Runway 28L have gotten the message and they are reportedly 48 hours ahead of schedule on the project, and one intersecting runway will reopen Saturday.

After Delay-Filled Weekend, SFO Starts Monday With 80 Cancellations, 96 Delays

They tried to warn us, but after just two days of the planned 20-day closure of Runway 28L, SFO has clocked a dramatic number of cancellations and delayed flights — with delays seeming to be a lot longer than were initially predicted.

SFO Shuttle Bus Gets 'Busjacked,' Driven to Berkeley

A suspect who has yet to be located "busjacked" a 16-passenger SkyPark shuttle bus at SFO on Tuesday, and no one was harmed in the process.

Planned 20-Day Shutdown Of SFO Runway Begins Next Week; Expect Delays

SFO's long-problematic main runway, 28L, which is used for a majority of landings at the airport, is going to see the closure of its most heavily-trafficked section starting September 7, and the airport is starting the delay-warnings now.

SFO Will Ban Bottled Water In Less Than Three Weeks

Effective August 20, airport shops will no longer sell single-use plastic water bottles, and thirsty flyers will need refillable aluminum or glass bottles.

Harvey Milk Terminal 1 Debuts To The Public At SFO With Tribute Wall To LGBTQ History

Tuesday is the big public opening day for Harvey Milk Terminal One, which opens its first gates to travelers after a two-year, $2.4 billion construction process. Nine of an eventual 25 gates are now open, along with a new boarding area and a tribute wall to Harvey Milk himself.

SFO and BART To Step Up Security To Curb Nightly Homeless Caravan At Airport

BART and SFO are teaming up to address the uptick in homeless individuals who ride the last train to the airport at night and then use the airport for shelter, and for occasional petty crimes.

Day Around The Bay: FCC Wants To Overrule SF's Pioneering Broadband Law

The Trump administration is ending its fight to put a citizenship question on the Census and SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera calls this a "triumph for all Americans"; and the driver in a fatal crash at SFO on Monday has been arrested.

SFO Begins Mandatory Garage Pickups For Uber and Lyft Today

In an effort to ease the daily rideshare traffic jams at SFO's domestic terminals, the airport is moving all Uber and Lyft pickups to a new designated area on the roof of the domestic hourly parking garage — and you can expect a few months of confusion about this as people figure it out .

Pothole On SFO Runway Causes Widespread Delays

A runway that's scheduled for major maintenance work later this year had to undergo unscheduled maintenance Thursday morning because of a 1-foot-wide pothole.

Apple Exec and ACLU Are Suing Homeland Security Over An SFO Search

Prominent privacy advocate and Apple executive Andreas Gal has teamed up with the ACLU on a lawsuit against the federal government concerning invasive practices by Customs and Border Patrol.

Stockton Airport Wants To Add 'San Francisco' To Its Name, SFO Says 'No Way'

Well this is hilarious. The Stockton Metropolitan Airport has been trying to rename itself the San Francisco-Stockton Regional Airport, seemingly in a bid to attract unwitting tourists who have no idea how far

Would A Flat $30 Rate Convince You To Take A Taxi To SFO?

Gather round kiddies, and I'll tell you a tale: Long, long ago, before your cell phone could let you do anything besides make calls and play Snake, people who wanted to travel to

SFO Stabbing Renews Concerns About Homelessness At Airport

Tuesday’s stabbing of a police officer at San Francisco International Airport could have been a lot worse, as the officer’s injuries were minor enough that he was released from the hospital

Veteran SFPD Officer Recovering After Stabbing During SFO Confrontation

Tune into @kron4news @jrstone4 is working on a story where a @SFPD officer was stabbed @flySFO right outside the @SFPDAirport substation. pic.twitter.com/YwSMeOwJe2— Stanley Roberts (@SRobertsKRON4) September 27, 2017 A man

SFO Worker Struck By Lightning, Wildfire Sparked In Woodside, More Thunderstorms Expected Tuesday

Last night's rare and lengthy thunderstorm around the Bay Area caused upwards of 7,000 flashes in the sky and 1,200 ground strikes according to meteorologists, and everyone should be braced for

Stowaway Rat Delays SF-Bound Flight By Nine Hours

A flight to San Francisco International Airport was held up for over nine hours Sunday, but (for once!) the issue wasn't ground delays at our end — instead, a rat that had stowed away

FAA Changes SFO Landing Rules After Air Canada Near-Miss

Following a widely publicized near-disaster at SFO last month in which an Air Canada jet came within feet of crashing into four planes full of people on a taxiway, the FAA is making

Police Allegedly Link 'Thousands' Of Child Porn Videos To SFO Employee

A San Francisco man remains behind bars today, after police say he was caught uploading and trading child porn they characterize as "graphic." According to the San Francisco Police Department, their Internet Crimes

Houston Family's Dog Dies In United Flight Cargo Hold En Route To SFO

A five-year-old King Charles spaniel named Lulu died aboard a United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco recently, and the family is pointing blame at the airline. The Houston family told their

Air Canada Jet In SFO Near Miss Was Just A Few Feet From Hitting United Plane

The terrifying near-miss incident on July 7 at SFO has just gotten even more terrifying as the National Transportation Safety Board reveals in a new report that the misguided Air Canada pilots came