datb day around the bay

Novato High School was given the all-clear after a bomb threat, five Oakland cops were found wrongly fired in the fatal shooting of a homeless man, and Eataly is gearing up to open in Santa Clara’s Westfield Valley Fair center.

The Texas man who carjacked an Oakland man Tuesday also had his young daughter with him, a Bay Area teacher was charged by Contra Costa County prosecutors Friday with 29 counts of child molestation, and Arinell Pizza is in danger of closing.

An elementary school in San Rafael will reinstate its mask mandate, SFPD increased its reward money for information in the case of Nicole Fitts to $250K, and just a single day after Grinnell — the male in the famous Berkeley falcon pair— was found dead, his female companion has replaced him.

The Presidio Raptor Cam is back after a two-year hiatus, Cupertino’s new massive development project under construction will include 2,400 below-market-rate housing units, and BART recorded 138,794 riders yesterday—marking the single-busiest day for the rapid transit agency in two years.

A Caltrain struck and killed someone on the tracks in Menlo Park this morning, the Tenderloin Linkage Center apparently closed today for scheduled maintenance, and a four-alarm fire began burning Friday morning at a vacant 50,000-square-foot commercial building in Campbell.

A man was shot during an attempted robbery in SoMa, there’s a $700M superyacht docked in Italy that might be associated with Putin, and at least one "omicron-delta hybrid" COVID-19 infection has been detected in California.

Highway 50 near South Lake Tahoe is back open, Bay Area rent prices continue inching closer to pre-pandemic levels, and a local couple — with the help of their friends — has raised nearly $200K in funds to help people fleeing Ukraine.

East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell is doubling down on his remarks about kicking Russian students out of the country, a local spa is offering free passes to Ukrainians, and SF police are looking for a man who robbed a bank on the first block of West Portal Avenue Thursday afternoon.

McDonald's recently launched its "McPlant" burger in the Bay Area, an estimated 73% of all Americans now have some immune protection against Omicron, and Muni is offering free rides for the Lunar New Year weekend.

It was announced Friday morning that former A’s player Jeremy Giambi died by suicide Wednesday, the Outer Sunset is one step closer to getting its first dispensary, and Barack and Michelle Obama's nearly life-sized portraits in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery are coming to SF this summer.

The SF Medical Examiner’s Office has identified Frank Chavez as the victim in Monday's late-night Mission District stabbing, there’s a new “fancy” pedestrian bridge at the Warm Springs/South Fremont BART station, and the U.S. Covid-19-related death toll has now surpassed 900,000 lives.

The California Attorney General says that Meta can't just "eat” up competitors, the Oakland Redistricting Commission has finally decided on a new map, and the LED forest currently glowing in Golden Gate Park will beam for at least one more month.

UCSF scientists are getting closer to explaining the "brain fog" some people experience after recovering from COVID-19, an SF man was charged for repeatedly abusing his four-month-old puppy, and it looks like we can expect some Bay Area rain to come our way next month.

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).