By Taylor Romine and Chimaine Pouteau, CNN (CNN) — Oakland’s airport has changed its name from “Metropolitan Oakland International” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” after a unanimous vote by the city’s Board of Port Commissioners on Thursday – despite a trademark lawsuit from neighboring San Francisco. “With the new name, the Port aims
By Taylor Romine and Chimaine Pouteau, CNN (CNN) — Oakland’s airport has changed its name from “Metropolitan Oakland International” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” after a unanimous vote by the city’s Board of Port Commissioners on Thursday – despite a trademark lawsuit from neighboring San Francisco. “With the new name, the Port aims
By Taylor Romine and Chimaine Pouteau, CNN (CNN) — Oakland’s airport has changed its name from “Metropolitan Oakland International” to “San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport” after a unanimous vote by the city’s Board of Port Commissioners on Thursday – despite a trademark lawsuit from neighboring San Francisco. “With the new name, the Port aims
Auroras, also known as northern lights or the aurora borealis, were visible throughout the San Francisco Bay Area on Friday night and early Saturday morning and were reported as far south as San Diego. The rare occurrence was due to a phenomenon known as a solar storm. Graded as a Level 4 storm (out of 5), it marked the first severe geomagnetic storm that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has tracked in nearly 20 years.Starting around 11 p.m. on Friday night, incredible...
Pres. Biden and first lady Jill Biden are in San Francisco for a quick Bay
Some people arrive in the Bay Area by car or plane. Others, like Whatsapp co-founder Jan Koum, make larger waves. The Ukraine-born billionaire’s superyacht was spotted in the San Francisco Bay on Tuesday, with its presence confirmed by ship-tracking website MarineTraffic.org. It’s a monstrous ride: Named “Mogambo,” the custom-built ship is more than 240 feet long and sold to Koum for $75 million in 2012, Luxury Launches reported. A 2022 article said the yacht holds 17 crew members after...
It's the industry that's supposed to help revive San Francisco, with the major players in artificial intelligence moving downtown. But on Monday, Replit, an AI company valued at over $1 billion, announced it was leaving the city.
The federal government and the state of California sued the city of San Francisco on Wednesday over the city’s aging combined stormwater-sewer systems, which they allege can release raw sewage into the bay and onto beaches when overwhelmed during heavy rain, as first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle. (SFGATE and the San Francisco Chronicle are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.) Federal officials said the sewage threatens aquatic life and also puts swimmers, surfers and...
It’s official: Oakland, California’s airport has changed its name. The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners, which oversees Oakland International Airport (OAK), voted unanimously Thursday to change the airport’s name to San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport in an effort to better reflect the airport’s location as part of an effort to attract more passengers and …
Evidently, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim aren't the only organization with big-city envy. The Oakland Board of Port Commissioners voted Thursday to change the name of the airport to "San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport" in an attempt to bring more recognition to the airport. Despite opposition from some locals and San Francisco officials, the commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the new moniker, replacing the more precise "Metropolitan Oakland International Airport." The...
The decision to rename the airport was based on the airport’s location on San Francisco Bay and its proximity to numerous notable locations, such as Wine Country, several colleges and universities, and the cities of San Francisco and Berkeley.
The right-hander has spent parts of four seasons in Major League Baseball.