• The Bureau of Land Management has signed off on Burning Man's permit, at last. There was a scare a couple months back, as you may recall. [SF Business Times]
  • A heat wave is headed for the Bay Area this weekend, with some inland temps hitting triple digits. In SF, this means temperatures in the 70s on Saturday. [Chronicle]
  • Beloved sticker factory Mrs. Grossman's in Petaluma is shutting down its retail store and stopping factory tours. The moves are being made as the 40-year-old company begins sharing its facility with another company that makes labels. [ABC 7]
  • Buses that actually run transbay routes are finally returning to the Transbay Transit Center on August 11. AC Transit announced that its 26 transbay lines will begin running through the hub that Sunday. [Hoodline]
  • There is renewed talk of installing speed enforcement cameras in SF following last Sunday's pedestrian death. [Examiner]
  • Google just bought seven former Yahoo buildings in Sunnyvale. [ABC 7]
  • A boy in Pittsburg who was apparently showing off a handgun to his friends shot another boy in the neck. [Bay City News]
  • Local chefs Dominique Crenn and Traci Des Jardins will be helping advise local food-tech startup Plenty, which is trying to pioneer hydroponic "vertical" farming. [Eater]