COVID cases are popping up in an East Bay school district that opened for classes last week, some SF parents are now nervous to send kids back to school, and Aubrey Huff got kicked off of Twitter again.

The Dixie Fire is approaching a half-million acres and is now the second-largest wildfire in state history, a driver outside his vehicle was killed on 101 in Rohnert Park, and Oakland Unified School District kicked off its schoolyear today.

Sean Spicer is floating around the idea that Trump intends to run again in 2024, the Dixie Fire now measures at least 463,477 acres in size, and a San Francisco runner was recently bitten and dragged near California and Fillmore streets by a group of assailants.

A driver drove right into a Dublin home earlier this morning, the U.S. is now up to 100,000 new COVID-19 infections a day, and as of Saturday morning, the Dixie Fire covers an area of around 446,723 acres — or more than half the size of Rhode Island.

A grand jury has indicted 35-year-old Samantha Moreno Rodriguez of San Jose for the murder of her seven-year-old, SF General is seeking the public's help in identifying a woman in critical condition, and New York Mag now has a long-read about Chesa Boudin.

A Bayview shooting Friday night involving two women left both of them with severe wounds, the San Jose public school district is set to become the first Bay Area school district to require all staff to be vaccinated, and the national eviction moratorium will expire today.

The Shasta County DA announced coming criminal charges against PG&E for last year's Zogg Fire, hundreds of SF bars began asking for proof of vaccination on Thursday, and mask sales are once again booming.

Barbara Boxer tells the story of her mugging in Oakland, a traffic stop in Vacaville turned tragic, and Gavin Newsom's Cow Hollow wine and spirits shop has been broken into four times so far this year.

A plane that crashed in Truckee on Monday killed all four people onboard, Singapore's Delta variant surge among the vaccinated may hold clues for the Bay Area, and the CDC is expected to tell all vaccinated people to put masks back on indoors.

The Dixie Fire prompts more evacuations in Plumas County, a reckless driver crashed into multiple parked cars in the Richmond, and the CDC is considering revised mask guidance for vaccinated people in indoor spaces.

Two young white men were arrested after vandalizing a BLM mural in Santa Cruz, the Walgreens at 81st Avenue in Oakland is set to close (which could create a local “pharmacy desert”), and the Dixie Fire grew nearly 10,000 acres overnight — with its northeastern perimeter joining the Fly Fire.

An East Bay warehouse fire caused temporary outages Saturday morning, a body recovered in the San Pablo Bay is believed to belong to a local missing teen, and the pandemic absolutely worsened hunger in the Bay Area — with the SF-Marin food bank dealing out 80 million pounds of food in 2020, alone.

Seven vaccinated Stanford students have tested positive and are symptomatic for COVID, the SFPD is seeking help finding a car that hit an 88-year-old woman on Wednesday, and the Olympics opening ceremony was met with protest.

Chinatown businesses are being targeted with frivolous ADA lawsuits and "demand letters" and the DA's Office is investigating, a Recology truck caught fire on 101, and Oakland police are cracking down on illegal vendors at Lake Merritt.

Newsom is meeting with state and local leaders about retail theft, some Uber and Lyft drivers in SF are on strike today, and the Southern California couple whose gender reveal party sparked a wildfire last year has been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

A large earthquake happened 7.5 miles west of Petrolia in Humboldt County Saturday, emergency crews were called to help an injured hiker at Alum Rock Park earlier this week, and two athletes tested positive for COVID-19 in the Olympic Village.

One large storefront at Grant Avenue and Clay Street is set to become a Chinese arts and media center, a Saturday morning hit-and-run crash at a San Jose intersection left one driver dead, and yes: Monkeypox is a thing.