San Francisco Mayor, Sheriff Announce Closure of Notorious Jail
The mayor and sheriff of San Francisco announced Tuesday that the city is closing one of its jails, which one supervisor described as "dangerous, dilapidated, seismically unfit."
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The mayor and sheriff of San Francisco announced Tuesday that the city is closing one of its jails, which one supervisor described as "dangerous, dilapidated, seismically unfit."
The San Francisco 49ers on Tuesday confirmed that the team's Sept 13 home opener against the Arizona Cardinals would be played with no fans in attendance at Levi's Stadium due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Rivals in life, the rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur are being united for an auction at Sotheby's, the first-ever dedicated hip-hop auction at a major international auction house.
San Jose Police asked for the public's help Tuesday in finding a 73-year-old man who went missing the evening before and is considered at-risk because of a medical condition.
Amid a national reckoning over racial injustice and inequality, owners of a popular Sierra ski resort that played host to the 1960 Winter Olympics have decided to drop the word 'squaw' from its name.
After 9 1/2 years of plans and revisions, dozens of contentious public meetings, a ballot measure and threats of lawsuits, the controversial 315-unit Terraces of Lafayette apartment project was approved early Tuesday morning by the Lafayette City Council.
When a massive wildfire swept through California's oldest state park last week it was feared many trees in a grove of old-growth redwoods, some of them 2,000 years old and among the tallest living things on Earth, may finally have succumbed.
The SCU Lightning Complex started on Aug. 16 with multiple fires within the complex. These fires have since merged into two major fires and are broken into three zones: Canyon, Calaveras and Deer.
The CZU August Lightning Complex fires began August 16 in southern San Mateo County and northern Santa Cruz County. Currently, most of the San Mateo County evacuation orders and warnings have been lifted.
The LNU Lightning Complex is a series of lightning-caused fires that began August 17 and are spread across five counties.
According to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce only 46 percent of storefront businesses in San Francisco that were open at the beginning of the pandemic are still operating.
The Muni Metro system had resumed Saturday but is shutting down for the foreseeable future after two splices in the subway overhead wire failed and someone in the system's control center tested positive for COVID-19.
More than 500 animals rescued from evacuated homes were moved from the SPCA's shelter to the Monterey County Fairgrounds as a precaution. The animals include dogs, cats, horses, goats, tortoises, peacocks, chickens, fish and others.
Investigators released new surveillance photos Monday evening in hopes they will help identify the suspect who stole a fire commander's wallet while he was fighting the CZU Lightning Complex Fire.
Advancing flames from the Woodward Fire in Marin County prompted additional evacuations near Point Reyes Station, Monday evening.
