Bay Area Updates
Bay Area Gets New Pro Women’s Soccer Team in 2024
Bay Area Updates, Brand New By Bay City News A new professional women’s soccer team is coming to the Bay Area. Former U.S. Women’s National Team players Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner announced Tuesday that the National Women’s Soccer League has awarded expansion rights to their group. The team, which has not yet more...
Dungeness Crab Season Closing Early to Protect Whales
Bay Area Updates Soon you’ll have to pause your crustacean craving as the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) this week announced that the commercial Dungeness crab season needs to end early, needs to close up shop early on April 15, 2023. While this may sound like crabby news to some, it’s for more...
S.F.’s Empty Offices Could Hold 11,000 New Homes
Bay Area Updates, Housing Thanks to San Francisco Chronicle for sharing the news that the city’s empty office buildings could be converted to new homes. San Francisco has thousands of empty office buildings that could be converted into housing, according to a new report. The report, released by the policy research group SPUR and the more...
BART’s New $90M Fare Gates Coming Systemwide by 2026
Bay Area Updates, Transportation By Eli Walsh, Bay City News BART officials are poised next month to spend approximately $47 million for the development of new fare gates in an effort to crack down on fare evasion. Infrastructure officials with the transit agency formally recommended Thursday that BART should award a contract to Virginia-based STraffic America more...
BART Doubles Police Officers & Ups Cleaning
Bay Area Updates, Crime, Transportation By Keith Burbank, Bay City News BART police are more than doubling the number of officers patrolling trains starting Monday to address safety and quality of life issues, BART officials said. BART police are deploying eight to 18 more officers on trains per shift in San Francisco and in BART’s core service more...
SF Drafts Plan for Reparations for Black Residents: $5 Million Payout to Each?
Bay Area Updates, Only in San Francisco, San Francisco By Olivia Wynkoop, Bay City News San Francisco supervisors voiced early support to provide reparations to Black residents for enduring systemic racism over the past 200 years. The 100-plus recommendations the supervisors heard from an advisory committee on Tuesday included $5 million payouts to every eligible Black adult, personal debt and tax more...
SF’s “Princess Diaries” Home Up for Sale for $8.9 Million
Bay Area Updates, San Francisco San Francisco’s gorgeous stately home, located at 2601 Lyon St., is best known as the fictional Grove High School as depicted in the 2001 fairytale comedy The Princess Diaries, starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews. The 100-year-old mansion whose exterior served as Mia Thermopolis’ school in the hit film has just more...
SF’s Wettest Day of the Year is Coming (Mar. 9)
Bay Area Updates, Storm Watch By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Another large storm will douse the Bay Area and Central Coast later this week, according to weather experts, bringing strong winds, heavy rainfall and renewed risk of flooding across the region. While showers are likely into Thursday, according to the National Weather Service’s San Francisco more...
The Bay Lights to Go Dark After 10 Years. Will They Return?
Artsy Fartsy, Bay Area Updates, Goodbye The Bay Lights is set to finally go dark after 10 years. When exactly will the lights go dark? Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 8pm – On Sunday night, Ben Davis (founder of Illuminate) will make a few remarks just before he gives the signal to shut them down around 8pm. Best viewing more...
SF Giants Drop Beer Prices for 2023 Season at Oracle Park
Bay Area Updates, San Francisco Good news for Giants fans. KRON4 shared the news that Giants CEO Larry Baer announced recently in an interview with KNBR that beer prices are dropping at Oracle Park Thankfully, the cost of an ice-cold beer will now be in the single digits once again. However, predictably, this only applies to more...
Permanent Car-Free Promenade Coming to SF’s McLaren Park?
Bay Area Updates, Parks & Beaches, San Francisco, Transportation By Olivia Wynkoop, Bay City News Foundation San Francisco is considering turning a portion of McLaren Park’s John F. Shelley Drive into a car-free promenade. Mirroring Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive, the roadway, which loops through the McLaren Upper Reservoir and the Redwood Playground Picnic Area, first turned car-free in more...
SF’s Half-Marathon Returns to the Golden Gate Bridge for 2023
Bay Area Updates, Only in San Francisco After six years, the most iconic bridge in the world will once again host half-marathon runners from across the world. The San Francisco Marathon officially announced the 2023 first half-marathon race will return to the Golden Gate Bridge after a six-year hiatus. The iconic bay bridge will now be featured more...
SF to Finally End Covid-19 Public Health Emergency Status
Bay Area Updates, COVID-19 Updates, San Francisco By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation San Francisco will sunset its COVID-19 public health emergency at the end of February in accordance with the end of the state’s emergency declaration, city officials said Thursday. San Francisco public health officials argued that while the virus is still present across the Bay Area more...
Angel Island Ferry Will Be CA’s 1st Electric Short-Run Ferry
Bay Area Updates, Green, Transportation By Thomas Hughes, Bay City News Foundation The Angel Island Ferry is going electric. The 400-passenger ferry to Angel Island State Park, owned and operated by the Angel Island-Tiburon Ferry Company, will be converted into an electric propulsion vessel by California-based Green Yachts. The project will be supported by infrastructure built more...
BART May Raise Fares 11%
Bay Area Updates, Transportation By Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation BART could increase fares by at least 5.5 percent as soon as January 2024 in an effort to keep up with both wage growth in the Bay Area and inflation, officials with the transit agency said Thursday. BART typically adjusts fares systemwide every two years more...
