- It's 4/20! Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park is bracing for possibly one of the largest gatherings ever. And down in Santa Cruz, the traditional annual "smoke out" is happening, without UC Santa Cruz's blessing, in a meadow on the outskirts of the school's grounds. [ABC 7]
- UC Berkeley's paper The Daily Californian has this cute package of pieces all about 4/20 and weed stuff. It's very "college."
- Please enjoy SFist's brief history of 420 (and 4/20) and how it first became a thing here in the Bay Area.
- A month of nighttime closures of Fremont Street between Mission and Howard begins Sunday so that crews can remove the shoring system beneath the Transbay Terminal deck. That block of Fremont will be closed nightly from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. through late May. [CBS SF]
- The California Public Utilities Commission has launched an investigation into both of the problems Muni has been having with its new trains. The state regulators are looking into the door-lock dragging incident that injured the elderly woman, and the issue of couplers breaking that attach the trains. [Examiner]
- Muni tried to demonstrate for the media that the new train doors sense the presence of hands and objects and automatically reopen, but the test was unconvincing. A top Muni official definitely had her hand stuck in a closed door. [NBC Bay Area]
- Rising California gas prices are making shifts for Uber and Lyft drivers a lot less profitable. [Chronicle]
- A new study has found that tiny, previously undetectable "micro-quakes" are constantly shaking beneath the Bay Area. [CBS SF]
- The San Jose Sharks saved themselves from elimination with a 5-2 win Friday over the Las Vegas Golden Sharks. [Bay City News]