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California heat wave updates: Five Bay Area cities break or tie heat records
With an excessive heat warning extended to next week, the National Weather Service announced several daily record-high temperatures on Tuesday evening. Oakland reached 90 degrees, breaking by one degree the record set on this day in 2001. San Jose's scorching 102 degree day tied the record previously set in 1970,...
220 Park in Burlingame Signs Office, Retail Tenants
Joint venture partners Dostart Development Company, LLC and Sares Regis Group of Northern California recently secured two new leases at the newly completed 220 Park development in downtown Burlingame. Private equity firm SkyKnight Capital confirmed to the San Francisco Business Times that it had leased approximately 10,000 square feet of office space, relocating its headquarters from San Francisco to the new 185,000-square-foot Class A office and retail project.
San Mateo County’s probate court to move from Redwood City to San Mateo
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... San Mateo County’s probate courtroom is moving to the Central Branch Courthouse at 800 N. Humboldt St. in San Mateo beginning on July 22. The courtroom is currently in the Hall of Justice Courthouse at Redwood City. According to a Friday press release,...
Officials, experts emphasize rarity of recent SF coyote attack
A coyote bit a 5-year-old girl just before 11:30 a.m. on June 28, during a summer-camp visit to the San Francisco Botanical Garden. U.S. Agriculture Department trappers, working alongside California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials, shot and killed three coyotes in the garden during the subsequent weekend. DNA testing conducted Monday identified one of the killed coyotes as the animal that bit the child. Captain Patrick Foy, a member...
Mission District Community Divided Over Dolores Hill Bomb Event, Which Might Happen This Saturday
The annual, unsanctioned skate punk joyride known as the Dolores Hill Bomb might be happening this Saturday, and at a community meeting to discuss police plans, neighbors were split on whether the event should be welcomed, or cracked down upon even harder. The highly unsanctioned annual celebration of hooliganism known...
SF Symphony | Mendocino Music Festival | Theatre Rhinoceros
7/3/24 On the Arts host David Lautlippe’s catches up with Conductor Edwin Outwater and the upcoming SF Symphony concerts. David will also talk with Mendocino Music Festival’s Artistic Directors & Co-Founders Allan Pollack & Susan Waterfall about the upcoming annual festival. David will also be joined by Director...
Does BVHP finally have the opportunity to win the housing and jobs promised over 15 years ago?
Please call in to today’s OCII Commission meeting to advocate for equitable development for the Bayview, Candlestick and Hunters Point Communities Tuesday, July 2, at 1 p.m. Call 415-749-2408. The housing developer Lennar and its spin-off company Five Points (the Developer) have made multiple promises to the residents of...
Scientists flip switch on fat cells, discover way to naturally burn more calories
SAN FRANCISCO — Have you ever wondered why losing weight or maintaining a healthy body weight can be such a challenge? A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation may hold some answers. Researchers from UC San Francisco have unveiled the critical role of a protein called KLF15 in regulating fat cells, potentially opening new doors for treating obesity and metabolic diseases.
‘Ticking time bomb’: Suit claims ‘egregious’ failures in SF shipyard cleanup
An environmental advocacy group is suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Navy for “egregious violations” during its cleanup of radioactive toxins at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. San Francisco-based Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and the UC Berkeley Law Clinic filed the lawsuit Friday, calling for, among other demands, 100% of the land to be retested for radioactive contaminants. They claim the Navy was obligated to do so, but never did. ...
SF Symphony Audience Member Threatened With Ban From Concert Hall for Holding Up Vulgar Sign (in Finnish)
This seems to be a first: The San Francisco Symphony is threatening to ban a regular attendee who held up a profane sign at a concert, written in Finnish, to protest the impending departure of musical director Esa-Pekka Salonen. Maybe you haven’t been following the upper-crust drama surrounding San Francisco...
A marathon fact-checking battle is the smart, funny core of new play at Aurora Theatre
When political leaders speak baldfaced lies with straight faces, fake news often supplants truth. It is, therefore, a pleasure to relish The Lifespan of a Fact, an intelligent and funny play that explores the subject of journalistic integrity. And although the book on which The Lifespan of a Fact is based was written in 2012, the issues are even more essential today.
Stolen credit cards found in petty theft arrest in Colma
(KRON) – Two San Francisco residents were found with multiple credit cards not in their name in a petty theft arrest, according to the Colma Police Department. The theft occurred around 9:18 p.m. on Thursday at a business on Colma Boulevard. Responding officers were made aware that two men stole merchandise, fled through the emergency […]
SFUSD’s choice of equity over excellence as basis for school closures ignores voices of parents and diminishes student opportunity
The summer will be anything but quiet for the San Francisco Unified School District as it takes on three monumental challenges — getting its fiscal house in order to prepare for $113 million in budget cuts next year; closing schools in response to low enrollment; and passing a $790 million facilities bond measure on the November ballot.
Annual Dolores Park 'hill bomb' set for this weekend
The hill bomb, unsurprisingly, has a history of being dangerous. Prolific skaters have been injured in the past, and a cyclist even died after being struck by another skater, which is why the city has been trying to put a stop to it. Due to the alleged mistreatment of the...
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