VTA light rail service will be back by late July following the shooting-related shutdown, Contra Costa County says the Delta variant is spreading there among the unvaccinated, and The Independent reopens Friday.

A 54-year-old San Luis Obispo County man has been sentenced in the bizarre string of slingshot-marble attacks on Monterey County roads, candidates for governor are being forced to show tax returns, and over 120 deaths are being attributed to the Northwest heatwave.

The victim in that shark attack near Half Moon Bay has shared his whole story, DA Chesa Boudin is recusing himself in a weird case about a theft of school board recall petitions, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her husband have listed their Tahoe compound for $41 million.

A new city report finds that 45% of SF small businesses remain closed, a group representing Black city employees objects to SF's mandate that they all be vaccinated, and the death toll at the Miami condo collapse site is at 4 but expected to rise dramatically.

A 21-year-old woman visiting SF says she was shot through her car door in the Mission on Sunday, SF's Dept. of Homelessness still wants to spend too much on those tents, and one of those swanky Light House condos on Dolores Park is back on the market.

Pelosi may be baiting Senate Republicans, a frightening flip-over crash on the Bay Bridge was caused by a distracted father, and a 20-year-old man is fighting for his life after a shooting in the Bayview on Monday.

SF Mayor London Breed has vetoed that Free Muni pilot program as promised, the city is opening more branch libraries this week, and the state is getting set to pay for total rent forgiveness for all low-income renters who struggled during the pandemic.

Some SF restaurants are keeping masks on employees (but not all), California lawmakers are squabbling over high-speed rail funding again, and Chez Panisse announced that it isn't reopening until October.

An SF firefighter died after fighting a fire at SFO last week, a former City Hall employee is facing felony forgery charges, and BART riders are not looking forward to the trains becoming crowded again.

The San Jose shooter had been written up and investigated within the VTA for multiple aggressive incidents, car burglaries are up this year over last in one SF district, and one of last week's vaccine lottery winners has gone on camera to talk about it.

The SFPD just seized a lot more illegal fentanyl and other drugs in an Oakland bust, an SF man was arrested for a May assault on an elderly woman on the Embarcadero, and food trucks are returning to downtown along with a trickle of office workers.

The condo market in SF just had its busiest three months in 16 years, small fires were popping up all over the Bay today, and DoorDash CEO Tony Xu is the highest paid CEO in the Bay Area by a lot.

No charges are being filed against Mohammed Nuru in that knife incident and the DA says it was just a misunderstanding, Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis says she won't play politics with the recall, and Honey Mahogany talks about her political ambitions after becoming SF Democratic Party Chair.

SF's first Asian American, female, LGBTQ assistant fire chief is suing the city over what she says is a culture of discrimination in the SFFD, police in Pittsburg released more details in last week's officer-involved shooting, and Oakland Airport is expecting a lot of people flying in and out.