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SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, October 22, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency announced that permits obtained through the Shared Spaces Program which were originally set to expire at the end of December may now be extended through June 30, 2021. Additionally, new applications are being accepted. According to Mayor London Breed, the city is contemplating making the program permanent.  The announcement...

SAN FRANCISCO—San Francisco-based clothing retailer Gap announced on October 21 that they will close 350 stores by early 2024. That number means that the company will lose one third of their store base. The announcement was made during a Gap Inc. investor meeting earlier in the week, during which the company explained that the move comes as Gap is trying...

SAN FRANCISCO—Camera footage taken in a downtown San Francisco Walgreens caught a man jumping over a counter and stealing merchandise from the store. On October 21, crews from Inside Edition were covering a story on shoplifting in the store at the same time the robbery occurred, and caught the crime in action on camera. The video from Inside Edition shows...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, Oct. 22, San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers chased a male driver of stolen a U-Haul moving van through the Bayview District. The suspect later crashed the vehicle, ran into a river, and drowned after rescue attempts by officers of the SFPD and the California Highway Patrol.  The van was seen failing to yield for a pedestrian...

SAN FRANCISCO — The possibility of another wildfire in the Bay Area has caused PG&E to shut off power in more than 30,000 homes, the company confirmed Wednesday, Oct. 21. The San Jose Government website published a page describing the upcoming shut offs that should be expected due to the placement of the company’s equipment- in a spot that is...

SAN FRANCISCO—The city of San Francisco is changing how it deals with 911 calls concerning individuals with mental health issues. The San Francisco Fire Department, alongside the Department of Public Health are forming a task force to respond to non-violent psychiatric, behavioral, or substance abuse related 911 calls. In an statement released in June, San Francisco Mayor London Breed announced...

UNITED STATES—Sleep is the one thing we all crave, but it is also the one thing so many of us struggle with: getting quality sleep. I would be one of those Americans. I have always struggled getting to sleep at night, I think this goes back to my days as an undergraduate student where I used to work nights...

SAN FRANCISCO—A recent inventory conducted in the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office has discovered evidence of missing and improperly stored drugs in the building. The inventory of the Medical Examiner’s Office was ordered by the Controller’s Office following the arrest of Justin Volk, 40, in August. Volk was a previous medical examiner at San Francisco’s Medical Examiner’s Office. He was...

SAN FRANCISCO—On Thursday, October 22, a man who stole a U-Haul died after he jumped off the San Francisco Bay Bridge. About 12:20 a.m., a man and a woman stole a U-Haul and rammed it into a California Highway Patrol car. A determination for the crash is unknown, but it occurred near Pennsylvania Ave & 25th Street. After the crash,...

SAN FRANCISCO—Sydney “Syd” West, 19, was last seen in downtown San Francisco near Crissy Field on September 29. She was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but was residing in California where she attended the University of California-Berkeley. According to the Orange County Sherriff’s Office, she was in San Francisco because she was staying with some of her friends. West’s...