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.

An arrest has been made in the June 27 vehicular manslaughter death of Alexander Norton in SoMa, Tesla's stock tumbled today on bad Q2 earnings, and the Canyon Fire is now 90 percent contained.

Tech giants in the Bay Area to be subject to a new DOJ probe, new evidence has been unsealed in the Bryan Carmody/SFPD warrant case, and nesting pigeons delayed a BART escalator repair.

A grass fire near Lake Berryessa has spread to 45 acres, a sleeping man was stabbed in an unprovoked attack in the Mission Monday afternoon, and the Getaround driver of the Tesla involved in Sunday's crash in the Tenderloin has been identified.

The judge in the "Rideshare Rapist" case may not throw out the DNA evidence, a judge told Oakland to come back with better arguments in its antitrust suit against the NFL and the Raiders, and BART is still fighting the PUC.

Muni's Embarcadero Station reopened at 3:30 p.m. following that water incident, Tom Steyer had a campaign event in the Mission, and a Sacramento judge has sent the Embarcadero Navigation Center case back to SF.

The man accused of slashing an 18-year-old woman's throat at an Oakland BART station last summer has been deemed fit to stand trial, two window washers had to be rescued in downtown SF, and we're probably getting a rideshare tax.

SF could see 30 or more days of 105+ degree heat by the end of the century, according to a new report; SFPD officers testify about evidence gathering in "Rideshare Rapist" case; and an arrest has been made in the murder of Oakland scientist Suzanne Eaton in Greece.

Yosemite's Ahwahnee Hotel is getting its name back following a trademark dispute, a small earthquake struck Morgan Hill, and a judgment against Monsanto in federal court in SF has been reduced.