• A tour bus and four other vehicles were involved in a fiery crash early Saturday on northbound 101 in South San Francisco. At least one person is dead following the crash, which took place around 12:30 a.m. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Residents along a one-block-long private alley between Corbett and Market Streets in Twin Peaks are trying to get the city to recognize it with a formal street name. Some residents can only access their homes via the alley, dubbed John's Way, but real estate listings and Uber drivers use addresses on one of the other streets, which creates confusion. [Chronicle]
  • An attorney for one of the two Ghost Ship trial defendants filed a motion Friday asking the judge not to allow the prosecutor's first witness, the mother of one of the victims, to testify. Carol Cidlik, the mother of victim Nicole Siegrist, is scheduled to testify about receiving a last text from her daughter the night of the fire, and the defense feels the only reason she's being called is to pull at the heartstrings of jurors. [CBS SF]
  • 30-foot basking sharks have been spotted near LA. "Sharks as big as small yachts" have returned to the California coast after a 30-year absence. [SF Gate]
  • George Homsey, an architect who designed seven BART stations, has died at 93. [Chronicle]
  • A new mural in Oakland pays tribute to slain rapper Nipsey Hussle. [ABC 7]
  • The SFMTA wants to create a one-block-long transit-only lane on West Portal Avenue to speed up Muni trains, but residents object. [Examiner]
  • State legislators are still trying to figure out to salvage the high-speed rail project and spend federal money before a deadline late next year. [NBC Bay Area]
  • The SF Flower Mart, while still technically included in a plan for a multi-story tech office building at Sixth and Brannan in SoMa, will likely have to move out of the neighborhood to somewhere in Bayview or Potrero because of the incompatibility of its truck loading and unloading needs. [Chronicle]
  • American Airlines put a poodle on the wrong flight out of SFO, and he ended up in Philadelphia instead of Raleigh. [NBC Bay Area]