• After the shooting in Las Vegas, YouTube has started to ban instructional videos that teach people how to modify their guns. The company says that their policy was always to remove "harmful and dangerous content," and they're just now expanding that to include these instructional videos, too. [CNet]
  • Litquake just kicked off its 18th year last Friday, and continues strong into this week. Maybe take a break from the continuous threat of crushing by existential dread and go check out an event? [Hoodline]
  • Genentech, one of the largest biotech companies in South San Francisco, is looking to almost double the size of its campus and grow its workforce three-fold. [SF Business Times]
  • This [SF Chronicle] report explores a growing trend: more and more homeless families are moving to find stability in cities like Vallejo, Richmond, and Sacramento, all with the blessing (and assistance) of the city.
  • [Beyond Chron] shared this essay that called 400 Turk "San Francisco's Drug Containment Zone," a la "Hamsterdam."
  • The [SF Examiner]'s Joe Fitzgerald explores a potential "loophole" that would allow city supervisors to serve indefinitely. Apparently, according to an e-mail sent to Fitzgerald from the law's original author, that "loophole" isn't actually a loophole at all.
  • As the SFMTA moves to issue a license to a station-less bike venture, people within the authority are worried that Motivate, the company behind those Ford GoBikes, could potentially threaten legal action. Apparently they were promised exclusive rights in their contract with the city, and bringing in more bikeshare companies could be a no-no. [SF Examiner]
  • In a video, one Santa Rosa mom describes what it was like to wake up to smoke and have to evacuate her home. [KRON 4]
  • In the face of disaster, a hero emerges. [ABC 7] shared the story of a maintenance manager in Santa Rosa who saved numerous lives by going door-to-door at an apartment complex to warn residents of the oncoming fire.
  • Earlier today, residents in some parts of the Sonoma and Napa counties were issued a warning to boil water before consuming it, as the fire took out a treatment center and a water pump serving those areas. [NBC]
  • On top of that, the wildfires have resulted in gas shutoffs to over 26,000 households, and 99,000 PG&E customers are without power as of Monday night. [CBS]
  • In a tweet earlier this afternoon, the historical photographer for the SFPD revealed that some officers are headed up to help assist police departments in the North Bay.
  • Clover Sonoma took to Facebook to refute reports that their buildings have all burned down in the fire. Instead, they lost their historical Stornetta dairy buildings, which were no longer in use, while their main processing plant remains safe.
  • After Governor Jerry Brown officially declared a state of emergency in three North Bay counties, the California Attorney General took a moment to remind everybody that price gouging after a state of emergency is declared is still highly illegal. [CBS]