Newsom signed a bill into law that decriminalized jaywalking in most instances, a deadly car crash in Burlingame killed one pedestrian, and SF’s marine layer was very thick in parts of the city last night and this morning.

Oakland's Highland Hospital is seeing twice the number of gunshot patients it saw just four years ago, a settlement has been reached between fire victims and former PG&E executives, and witness testimony begins in the trial of Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith.

A 4.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast near Eureka, Cal Academy’s new exhibit is “bug-tacular,” and many traffic lights were either blinking red or outright not working Saturday in SF.

All CA counties have left the CDC's “high” category for COVID-19, Bay Area rents could swell by an extra 10% this year, and fire crews are making progress controlling the largest wildfire this year in California — with 60% of the Mosquito Fire now contained.

A man was fatally shot on an Oakland freeway Wednesday night, those "inflation relief" payments are on their way for Californians in October, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were the surprise concert guests at Dreamforce last night.

A fourth fatal shooting in Oakland Tuesday capped off a violent 18 hours, a child was struck by a bus and gravely injured in San Francisco, and new data shows that SF lost more than half its restaurant jobs during the pandemic.

Two women were shot and one was seriously injured on 23rd Street in the Mission Monday evening, the Valero refinery in Benicia will be flaring this week, and a van crashed through a CVS store in downtown Oakland.

A Sunday homicide in the East Bay was likely linked to road rage, President Biden declares the "pandemic is over," and rain is going to continue sporadically around the Bay Area the next couple of days.

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.