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San Francisco is seeing a sharp uptick in burglaries, according to police data, with some neighborhoods experiencing nearly double the number of break-ins reported last year.
From skunks to peacocks: The Bay Area animal stories that cheered us up this year FacebookTwitterEmail From sheep to raccoons, animals kept us entertained with their antics this year.Blair Heagerty / SFGATE 2020 was a weird year. Even the animals agree. It started with a flood of "nature is healing, we are the virus" memes after some bogus news about dolphins returning to Venice canals went viral, and ended with ... COVID-infected zombie mink rising from mass graves in Denmark? Yikes. But it was the antics of birds, bears and raccoons that brought us comfort, laughter and amazement in this wi...