There's a good chance we're in for a winter boom in COVID cases, you can (for the first time ever) cut down your own Christmas tree inside the Stanislaus National Forest, and a new report shows SF Bay Area residents are most likely to experience package theft.

A person was killed in a suspected freeway shooting in Oakland early Saturday morning, the Bay Area is in the middle of a "Pastrami Renaissance," and service officially started at SF's Central Subway station today.

Bathrooms at the Whole Foods location at 1185 Market Street are now only open to customers amid drug use in them, there’s an apartment for rent in the historic Pasquale’s Tower on Telegraph Hill, and the popular brunch spot That’s My Jam is back.

The SF Zoo recently became home to a second Komodo dragon, Disney announced it's putting a freeze on new staff hires amid "dismal" earnings, and, of course, there's an error on the namesake's memorial plaque at the new Chinatown-Rose Pak Station.

A giant great white shark was recorded close to the Golden Gate Bridge, Nancy Pelosi released a video statement about the health of her husband, and the Haight-Ashbury Thai cuisine gem Ploy II appears to have closed after 33 years of business.

The man accused of attacking Pelosi’s husband is set to be charged with attempted homicide, Twitter users are testing the company’s community guidelines with Musk as owner, and FYI: The Anza Vista Target store was built on a former graveyard.

Snap Inc. is closing its massive 33,000-square-foot office in San Francisco, a man was fatally struck Thursday afternoon by a freight train near Berkeley’s Aquatic Park, and Old Devil Moon will shutter for good in November.

Macy’s stores across SF and San Jose are debuting new Toys 'R' Us pop-ups, cherry blossoms are in full bloom at Garfield Square Park, and the space that belonged to the former Touchless Car Wash at Divisadero and Oak streets will no longer become an apartment complex.

29 new lanterns were recently installed in San Francisco's Chinatown, Albertsons — which is Safeway with different branding — is being bought by Kroger, and FYI: The largest hay maze in the city is located at the SF Zoo.

There was an early morning shooting in downtown Berkeley, Impossible Foods — which is based in Redwood City — laid off 6% of its workforce Thursday, and San Francisco's real estate market is finally slowing down.

Oakland police made an arrest in the city’s 100th homicide, Muni's new smaller buses include blue interior lights that glow like a nightclub after dark, and someone (with a death wish) decided to swim in Oakland's Lake Merritt the other day.

Two Healdsburg men were arrested on 21 counts of arson in relation to the 2021 Sonoma County fires, car-free Valencia Street returns this weekend, and a front loader crashed into a home in San Francisco today.

A shooting in Oakland Friday afternoon left one dead and two injured during an attempted robbery, it'll be a sunny Bay Area weekend, and "mystery bowls" continue popping up on rooftops in San Francisco.

A four-alarm vegetation fire caused home damage along I-580 this afternoon, someone was struck by a BART train today, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held yesterday at the reopened (and upgraded) Castro-Mission Health Center.

Pete Buttigieg toured areas of Oakland Friday, the Mosquito Fire has now swelled to almost 30,000 acres, and the San Francisco Opera will debut its newest concert season this weekend.

Wine Country tourism is eerily slow this summer, a new poll suggests that most Americans believe democracy is “in danger of collapse,” and deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrested someone who allegedly stole — and crashed — an Oakland Police cruiser this week.

A shooting on a BART train near the Lake Merritt station injured one person, the Silicon Valley Pride parade is expected to draw some 20,000 people this weekend, and a Delaware judge has ordered both Twitter and Musk to turn over more documentation in the ongoing legal battle between them.

SF's largest Filipino night market will come back in October, East Oakland got a new Black-owned graphic design business, and an extension that would connect a bullet train link between SF and the Central Valley was approved by California’s High-Speed Rail Authority board Thursday.

The man killed in a shooting at a Brentwood 24 Hour Fitness has been identified, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Oakland Friday to support the launch of the Oakland Generation Fund, and classified documents were seized from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Stubhub will close its SF headquarters, don’t forget that SZA will grace the Lands End stage at Outside Lands tonight at 8:45 p.m., and the proposed Liberation Park Market Hall might come to East Oakland in the coming years — and include mostly Black and Brown businesses.

A young boy was arrested for starting a fire in Pacifica this week, another Bay Area resident was pistol-whipped and robbed of their watch, and a San Francisco law that allowed noncitizen parents to cast their votes in local school board elections was overturned by a judge.

Church Street's Amos Goldbaum mural is being restored, Steve Bannon was found guilty of contempt for defying a January 6 committee subpoena, and a man was arrested for entering a UC Berkeley Greek residence — and showing off his genitals to students.