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  • Smoke is expected to drift over the Bay Area today, but it's not from the Kincade Fire anymore. Smoke from the Ranch Fire in Tehama County, south of Redding, is on the move and expected to impact air quality. [KRON 4]
  • The Kincade Fire is now 84 percent contained. Fire crews say they are on schedule for full containment by Thursday, November 7. [Mercury News]
  • Orinda's city council will hold a moment of silence this evening to remember the Halloween shooting victims. The council is then set to consider changing its two-year-old short-term rental policy. [KTVU]
  • A real-life "BlacKkKlansman" activist who infiltrated a neo-Nazi group in order to dismantle it has died after battling cancer. 55-year-old California resident James Stern died after trickily taking over the leadership of a group that participated in the events in Charlottesville two years ago. [Associated Press]
  • The Orinda shooting has residents in Livermore calling for more short-term rental restrictions. [ABC 7]
  • An out-of-service steel gas pipe belonging to PG&E that was submerged in water in the Delta caused a boat crash over the weekend. [KRON 4]
  • A Mormon family, including three women and at least six children, was murdered in what's been described as a gang shootout in Mexico, in a Sonoran settlement that has long been an offshoot of the LDS church. [NBC Bay Area]
  • Russian River Brewing is bringing back its Sonoma Pride beer, first made two years ago, to benefit this year's wildfire victims in the county. [ABC 7]