Oakland City Council candidate Nenna Joiner tweeted some troubling support for Kanye West, a Solano County high school student was caught with a gun at school, and an Alameda community theater has been going through some tensions over diversity and race that have bubbled up to the Chronicle.

It's going to be a windy day and a chilly night tonight, around 90,000 people received early warnings about Tuesday's earthquake, and a teen stabbed in Novato is in critical condition.

Police found nothing suspicious and no human remains in that buried Mercedes in Atherton, Gavin Newsom again vowed to complete his next term as governor, and there are apparently 300 COVID variants now circling the globe.

A preliminary 2.7-magnitude tremor rattled off near Morgan Hill this morning, PG&E shutoffs are expected to continue in the Bay Area until Monday afternoon, and Santa Rosa's first gun buyback event Saturday saw hundreds of firearms traded for cash.

PG&E shutoffs around the Bay Area are still possible Saturday, a wayward sea lion decided to climb atop a CA State Parks car this week, and a thief made off with thousands of dollars in jewelry at Mabel Chong Jewelry in SF Wednesday.

UC Berkeley has hired private security to patrol around dorms following a shooting, California may be losing its share of IPOs and startups, and Mayor London Breed gave an apology for comments she made about Hondurans.

There was a power outage Tuesday night in the Western Addition, the accused double-murdering Alameda Co. deputy is being arraigned today, and a new public toilet in Noe Valley is coming with a $1.7 million price tag.

The Napa Trumper who pleaded guilty to plotting to bomb "Democrat buildings" is being ordered to get a psych evaluation, two new Omicron subvariants are likely to drive some sort of winter surge, and Jane Fonda has endorsed Honey Mahogany for D6 supervisor.

BART police have arrested a suspect in an Oct. 6 sexual assault in Walnut Creek, two Sonoma County deputies shot a man near downtown Sonoma who they say fired on them, and flu season may have already arrived in California with an outbreak in San Diego.

There was an "ambush-style" robbery in the Mission District, a security camera filmed dozens of windows at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital being broken, and a Yountville bakery made a life-size replica of Han Solo frozen in carbonite — completely out of carbs.

A fire broke out early Friday morning at a senior apartment complex near Lake Merritt in Oakland, the death of Truckee teen Kiely Rodni has been ruled accidental, and San Jose saw two hit-and-run collisions on Thursday.

Hundreds gathered outside San Francisco's City Hall on Monday in solidarity to protest Russia's new attacks in Ukraine, a gig-worker union is going to be announced outside Uber HQ, and a strange weather pattern has been keeping SF's early October colder than usual.

The Blue Angels' air show was canceled Sunday due to fog, 74% of respondents to a Chronicle Twitter poll agree with Soleil Ho that the French Laundry isn't worth a splurge, and a Times reporter spent 24 hours in Facebook's metaverse, such as it is.

Stanford has reported a rape that happened on the campus Friday afternoon, San Jose recorded its 52nd fatal traffic collision this year, and Karl The Fog's fall thickness made seeing Saturday's Fleet Week air shows quite difficult

The state is now auditing multiple police forces in the Bay Area following revelations about "unsuitable" psych evaluations in Alameda County, an infamous wine arsonist is getting out of jail, and there was a vigil for the slain family in Merced.

Tensions flared last night at the Oakland City Council over the clearing of the Wood Street encampment, classes have restarted at the Oakland campus where a shooting took place last week, and all local grocery stores are going to be transitioning to compostable plastic.

Janitors are striking in protest of layoffs at Meta/Facebook, there was another major BART delay due to a problem in the Transbay Tube, and a longtime Bay Area physicist has just won the Nobel Prize.

A woman suffering from a gunshot wound was found dead in San Jose Friday night, The Castro Street Fair is currently underway, and the average price of a gallon of regular gas in CA is now about $6.38.