Dog Eared Books' 30th birthday celebration is today, San Francisco has (again) struck down a plan to repurpose an empty parking lot into housing units, and the Mosquito Fire is now 34% contained — a massive improvement from yesterday.

The Mosquito Fire in Placer County has burned over 71,000 acres as of Saturday morning, SF is getting 10,000 more monkeypox vaccines, and three people were rescued from the surf at China Beach Friday.

The second Hayward Fault tremor of the week — and the fourth smallish earthquake in the Bay Area — struck at 2:41 a.m. in Berkeley, four SFPD vehicles had their catalytic converters stolen in one fell swoop, and there's a new study about how the vaccines did against Omicron subvariants.

New video shows at least two people who were struck by cars in a sideshow on Van Ness early Sunday, the suspect in the San Carlos beheading is being sent for a psych evaluation, and the first monkeypox death in the U.S. has been confirmed in Los Angeles.

A 2.9M quake hit last night around 10:30 that was centered near the Caldecott Tunnel in the Oakland hills, the SFPD suspended a chase in the Tenderloin Sunday evening for public safety reasons, and Oakland's popular Snail Bar is an annoyance for neighbors.

The Mosquito Fire grew to over 41,000 acres overnight, today marks 21 years since the 9/11 terrorist acts — which remain the deadliest to ever occur on American soil — and a 33-year-old was fatally stabbed Saturday morning in Bayview.

Smokey skies in parts of the Bay Area will likely continue into the weekend, Dog Eared Books is turning 30 years old, and the incredibly hot weather this week led many people to end up in local hospitals for heat-related health problems.

One of two inmates who escaped from a Contra Costa County detention center last weekend has been found, work — and tensions — will continue today in the clearing of the Wood Street encampment in Oakland, and a possible second US monkeypox death in under investigation in L.A.

Santa Clara Valley Medical Center lost power for about four hours on Tuesday leading to a crisis, ousted former SF school board member Alison Collins's Russian Hill house is for sale again, and squirrels are splooting all over in the heat.

The state avoided rolling blackouts on Tuesday but a few Bay Area cities cut power briefly on their own, BART is fixing a heat-related track problem in the East Bay, and several schools in Novato don't have AC so they're ending the schoolday early this week.

Firefighters saved a six-month-old baby after being left in a hot car in Oakland, don't forget that nightly street sweeping and parking meters are still enforced today by SFMTA, and the current Bay Area heatwave is now expected to last until Thursday.

Two pedestrians were killed in San Jose Saturday, the Bay Area’s Spare the Air Alert has been extended to at least Sunday night, and this Labor Day weekend’s heat wave will bring its warmest days Monday and Tuesday.

Another apartment fire has displaced a dozen on Divisadero Street, someone set a bunch of trash cans on fire along the Embarcadero last night, and some of the East Bay may see temperatures tip above 100 degrees today.

The FDA has cleared both Pfizer's and Moderna's updated COVID vaccines targeting new variants, a mechanical bridge into the Delta in Solano County is stuck in the "up" position, and asking rents in SF are up 11% since last August.

A pedestrian was killed on 101 in Sausalito this morning leading to lane closures, a student at a Rohnert Park high school was found to have monkeypox, and a Walnut Creek man has been charged after alleged hidden camera installations at a Starbucks.

A shooting left three people dead in Bend, Oregon, a standoff ended peacefully Sunday in Santa Rosa with a man threatening to burn down his house, and the SF Dept. of Public Health may now be quietly giving second monkeypox vaccine doses.

A small earthquake rattled an area near San Jose, there's a Bay Area air quality advisory in effect for Sunday, and small businesses in Chinatown saw a boom in sales Saturday when tens of thousands of visitors attended SF’s Moon Festival.

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is holding a monkeypox vaccine clinic Sunday, new businesses have helped SF’s Ferry Building attract more traffic lately, and the New York Times wants to remind us San Franciscans we shouldn’t apologize for our cool summers.