Newsom drops a plan to hire a "homeless czar," three credit-card-skimming devices were found at a Peninsula gas station, and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has dropped out of the 2020 race.

An expert panel has signed off on a plan to shore up the foundation of the sinking/leaning Millennium Tower, a landlord in Mountain View allegedly attempted a five-person home invasion to intimidate a tenant, and some new charges against accused assaulter Austin Vincent are getting dismissed.

The California legislature passed a bill to compel new financial reporting from Kaiser, press got a peak at the Chase Center, and Warriors preseason tickets go on sale Tuesday.

Traffic was at a standstill heading into SF on the Bay Bridge as of 4:30 p.m., a Hawaiian Airlines plane out of Oakland had to make an emergency landing, and a truck crashed into a concrete guardrail on 101 in San Francisco.

Muni had a meltdown at the end of rush hour Monday morning, a 32-year-old man in the Bayview suffered life threatening injuries after being punched, and a trailer fire sent smoke over Santa Rosa today.

Berkeley Soul Cyclers don't seem to care about the boycott, BART won't be pleasant in the East Bay toward Walnut Creek this weekend, and the Isley Brothers are closing out the Stern Grove Festival on Sunday.

Mayor London Breed condemns the judge that freed the homeless guy who allegedly attacked a woman, a young girl was nearly kidnapped by a man while walking to school in South San Francisco, and the 'Bullitt' car is up for auction.

Opponents of naming the Chinatown subway station for Rose Pak held a press conference, a 41-year-old man died after a taco-eating contest in Fresno, and a brush fire broke out near houses in Hayward.

Temperatures are holding through Wednesday and Thursday in this crazy August heat wave, the Westin-St. Francis is likely getting sold to the Fairmont's owners, Oakland's getting a Shake Shack, and tomorrow is another Spare the Air Day.

Lake County blaze was sparked by a cigarette, the victim in Saturday's mid-Market crash was a 79-year-old woman, and Alex Rodriguez had a half million dollars in "jewelry and electronics" stolen out of his SUV in SoMa... did no one warn him?

Mollie Stone's is headed for Russian Hill, Mill Valley just approved an aggressive and controversial tree-removal measure, and Dim Baos from the Koi Palace team is coming to the Transit Center.

Uber posted their biggest quarterly loss ever, a man and a woman have been arrested in a string of catalytic converter thefts in Berkeley, and Outside Lands will have a lot more cops and security this year.

SF's newly installed top federal prosecutor just announced a year-long operation to target drug and sex traffickers in the Tenderloin, and a brush fire in Oakley has already burned one structure.

California's largest recycler shuts down, a state law will make it much harder to an appeal a Navigation Center, and Joe Panik is leaving the Giants.

A man died and two other people were injured in falls in Yosemite National Park, a tech millionaire in Mendocino County has been fined for destroying wetlands to build a winery, and two people were rescued in a Laurel Heights blaze.

Peter Thiel doubles down on his attack on Google and its AI lab in China, SF State is shutting down a Chinese exchange program under federal pressure, and BART is launching its Clipper Card-only program... at one BART station.

The parents of Finn Elder spoke on Italian TV today, a 24-year-old man was found dead after going missing in the Russian River Tuesday, and police are seeking hate crime charges for two implicated in a San Leandro bar shooting.

All three fatalities in Sunday's shooting were under the age of 25, Uber just laid off a third of its marketing team, and the first new hotel since the wildfires just opened in Sonoma County.

A woman who jumped in front of a BART train Wednesday evening and survived is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation, the Gilroy Garlic Festival kicks off, and Twitter is on a hiring binge.

A heat wave is headed our way this weekend, the BLM has signed Burning's permit at last, and a beloved sticker factory in the North Bay is shutting down its retail store.