• The SF Board of Supervisors' Budget and Finance Committee has OK'd the $91 million contract for 21 canopies over BART stations in the city. BART said the increased cost for the project is due to a labor shortage, higher wages, and a steel tariff. [Bay City News]
  • An arrest has been made in the June 27 vehicular manslaughter death of 30-year-old Alexander Norton in SoMa. Norton was one of four pedestrians killed in San Francisco (and SFO) in the last month, and 50-year-old Kenneth Hansel has been arrested in connection with his death. [SF Weekly]
  • Eeps. Tesla posted a $408 million loss for the second quarter, and its stock took a dive as a result. The stock was down 10% in late trading. [Associated Press]
  • GM's Cruise autonomous taxi fleet won't be rolling out this year and needs a whole lot more testing. As the New York Times reported last week, the promise of self-driving cars is now "way in the future" as the technology has a lot of kinks to work out. [SF Business Times]
  • The Canyon Fire that's been burning since Monday near Lake Berryessa is now 90 percent contained. [ABC 7]
  • A bill has passed in the state Assembly to outlaw the use of a rat poison, second generation anticoagulant rodenticide,” or SGAR, which has been found in the bloodstreams of dead wildlife predators like mountain lions. [CBS SF]
  • There was another brush fire today, this one up in Fairfield near I-680. [SF Gate]
  • Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to "reinvent" the DMV, and credit card transactions will be one of the first big changes. [KCRA]