Oakland’s beloved Luka’s Taproom is set to close on January 29 due to failed lease negotiations, booster shot eligibility has been expanded to cover kids between 12 to 15 years old in Solano County, and the SF Ballet's 89th repertory season gala has been postponed.

A large elephant seal was wrangled from a parking lot near Point Reyes, San Francisco has adopted the CDC's shorter quarantine protocols, and Betty White has died at 99 years old.

An overturned trailer spilled gasoline on I-680 in Fremont this morning, it's going to be a wet Christmas across the Bay Area tomorrow, and over 3,800 flights were canceled globally today as Omicron continues surging across the world.

The NFL postponed three games due to COVID-19 outbreaks, the Oakland Police Commission hired its first general inspector, and a new lawsuit claims Mario Gonzalez — who was killed when Alameda police attempted to restrain him earlier this year — had his constitutional rights violated.

A large storm system entered the North Bay Saturday night, beloved novelist Anne Rice has died due to complications following a sudden stroke, and SantaCon descended on SF Saturday — which seemed quieter than prior years.

Steph Curry urged lawmakers to pass the Freedom to Vote Act, longtime Chronicle cartoonist Don Asmussen has passed away at 59 years old, and a car robbery played out Monday afternoon on Lombard Street — with four family members inside.

A fatal shooting Friday around 4 a.m. in downtown Oakland became the city's 129th homicide for 2021, the world's largest toy train returns to the Bay Area this weekend, and ICYMI: Tesla has officially moved its HQ to Austin, Texas.

San Francisco police were out in droves today at Union Square, food trucks are coming to the Great Highway this weekend, and one of the theater’s most influential composer-lyricists, Stephen Sondheim, died Friday at 91 years old.

Former Santa Clara University professor Stephen Maynard was indicted on charges that he set four wildfires inside national forests in California, the FDA has expanded COVID-19 booster eligibility to all adults in the US, and it’s not just you: SF's Victorians are "graying."

Three-year-old Leo Norvell has been found by Hayward police, the National Weather Service issued a Dense Fog Advisory for parts of the Bay Area until 11 a.m., and it’s El Rio’s 43rd birthday today.

SF's political map is being redrawn, J Balvin dined at two-Michelin starred Californios before his OSL set, and SF is expected to open a parking lot that will allow people living in vehicles to safely park during storms (for the next two months).

The City gets about 20,000 311 calls a month for street and sidewalk cleaning requests, the F.D.A has officially authorized Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in children between the ages of 5 to 11 years old, and SF's average price for regular unleaded gasoline is now at $4.84 per gallon.

The National Weather Service has issued a Bay Area-wide Wind Advisory for Sunday, five NorCal counties are suing PG&E over the Dixie Fire, and no: Target isn't closing its Metreon location.

The body belonging to a 28-year-old SF man who went missing kayaking on Clear Lake has been found, there could be light rain coming our way Sunday, and Questlove is coming to the Castro in November for a screening of ‘Summer of Soul.'

Oakland’s Joaquin Miller Park is set to get a much-needed restoration, Newsom signed State Bill 389 into law (which legalized to-go cocktails), and City Hall will glow orange Saturday night — Beat LA!

The Sue Bierman Park was damaged in a fire Thursday, there's a Spare the Air Alert scheduled for tomorrow, and more than 700,000 Americans have died of COVID-19 so far — making it the country’s deadliest pandemic in history.

More light rain is predicted to come our way again as early as Monday, here’s your reminder that the Folsom Street Fair (a.k.a. "Megahood2021”) is Sunday, and the Fremont Festival of the Arts has been canceled.

A “coyote awareness education" program has begun in Moraga, Flower Piano is underway at Golden Gate Park this weekend (and into early next week), and it's official: at least four giant sequoia groves — home to some of the largest trees on this planet — have started burning.

San Jose is expected to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for City employees, Apple continues its tug-of-war with neighbors of a homeless encampment in San Jose, and the CDC has new data showing that unvaccinated individuals are 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than those who've been vaccinated.

Market Daze is set to become Oakland’s first city-permitted cannabis festival over the long weekend, CA cyclists could soon have the option to treat stop signs at times as yield signs, and Santa Clara County will open in-person voting stations this weekend for the gubernatorial recall election.

Fairyland in Oakland turned 71 years old today, Situ at SFMOMA has permanently closed, and as firefighters continue battling the Caldor Fire, one new containment measure is being considered: to merge it with the Tamarack Fire.

A small team at SF's I.T. Bookman Community Center helped 1,500 individuals get to vaccine appointments, Dog Eared Books in the Castro will soon reopen as a different bookshop called Fabulosa Books, and there’s a brand-new campground on the SF Bay you can pitch a tent at now.

Outside Lands announced its food and drink partners today, at least 13 American soldiers died during Thursday’s attack outside the Kabul airport, and California could soon require anyone who wants to enter inside certain public areas to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

One person was hospitalized after a police shooting in Oakland, August is now Transgender History Month in San Francisco, and headway was made containing the Dixie Fire — California's largest single-source wildfire in history — with at least 45% of it now under control.