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- After the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people in an Oakland warehouse last December, the city of Oakland entered into a $90,000 six-month contract with a San Francisco-based public relations firm. [NBC Bay Area]
- Planning unanimously approved new laws to form a regulatory framework for stationless bike-sharing companies like Chinese Bluegogo, which had previously announced plans to drop off its bikes in large numbers without seeking permission. [Examiner] [SFist]
- Meanwhile, SPUR hosted a talk featuring the CEO of Motivate, which runs Bay Area Bike Share, and he threw some shade at Bluegogo while promising Clipper Card compatibility for his service. [StreetsBlog]
- These “Bay Area Ghost Hunters” ain't afraid of no ghosts — nor minor public humiliation in news coverage, neither. [Richmond Confidential]
- Revealing their program for the year, the SF International Film Fest announces its new name will be SFFilm Festival, and the SF Film Society that runs it is now SFFilm. [Chron]
- BART addresses Trump’s budget proposal in series, or "thread," if you will, of tweets. [Curbed]
- Does SF need “sanctioned" homeless encampments? [SF Public Press]
- A federal judge in San Francisco approved a $27 million settlement for more than 200,000 current and former California Lyft drivers. [Chron]
- California Highway Patrol investigators recovered a news camera stolen from a crew filming a segment near the Candlestick Point exit at an East Bay Home. [Ex]
- An Apple engineer converted a van into a mobile laundromat for homeless people to clean their clothes. [NBC BAY Area]
- Teachers pen an op-ed opposing middle income housing proposal presented by Supervisors as intended for teachers. [Chron]
- 7 of the Brewers Association's largest 50 US craft breweries by volume — a seeming contradiction in terms — are in Northern California. [Chron]
- Brace yourselves: The floodgates at the Oroville Dam reopened this morning, and that spillway is still in really gnarly shape. [Chron]
- Expansion of rent control, specifically a repeal of the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Act, moves forward in Sacramento as housing costs continue to rise. [LA Times]
