The deYoung Museum is reopening on September 25, four CHP officers likely exposed to fentanyl on Sunday on the Golden Gate Bridge are out of the hospital, and a doctor says breathing this air is equivalent to 8 cigarettes.

People are actively fleeing the Bay Area to escape the hellacious air conditions, BART (being BART) suddenly shut down this morning, and gyms, nail and hair salons, and hotels are readying to reopen for certain indoor services starting tomorrow.

The SF Fire Department held a pared-down version of their annual 9/11 commemoration ceremony, BART is increasing train frequency starting Monday, and Bay Area brides are finding wedding venues won't give their money back for canceled ceremonies.

This year's fires are prompting rethinking in fire management policy, the state Supreme Court has allowed SF's Prop C to stand — providing more money for homeless services — and people landing at SFO on Wednesday were pretty freaked out by the orange sky.

Three SF men were arrested for multiple burglaries in North Beach, BART is adding back some more rush-hour trains, and near-surface smoke is expected to remain light in SF throughout the day.

Most evacuation orders in Sonoma were downgraded this morning, Marin County has to wait to enter the "red" tier for reopening, and tens of thousands of Bay Area residents are without power today and likely tomorrow too.

SF hit 100 degrees on Sunday for the first time in three years, the Creek Fire in Madera County has grown to 79,000 acres, and three people were shot — one fatally — during a late Sunday sideshow in SF's Excelsior District.

Over 200 people trapped by the fast-growing Creek Fire in the Sierra National Forest were rescued by helicopter Saturday, both an Excessive Heat Warning and Flex Alert are in effect through the long weekend, and four Trump-sign-touting boats sank during a Trump boat parade on a Texas lake yesterday.

It looks like we’re in for another hellacious heat wave this weekend, both Mayor Breed and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were at Dolores Park Friday to remind people to wear masks, and SF will now allow people to visit their loved ones at nursing facilities — albeit outside.

Alameda parents are upset over a racist online learning program, the SF Sheriff's Department wants to take over SFO duties, and a potentially damaging report emerges about Trump disparaging war dead.

Tracking the Hennessey Fire's rapid spread two weeks ago, a National Guardsman had to be rescued in Sonoma County after a fall, and casinos are reopening for outdoor gambling in San Jose.

Facebook and Twitter have shut down a Russian "troll factory" that was employing American freelancers, Pacifica is closing all of its beaches this weekend, and Carole Baskin is going to be on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

Water has been contaminated by melted pipes in Santa Cruz after fires, a 52-year-old SF man was found dead at a marijuana grow up north, and Twitter has removed a conspiracy tweet about the CDC.

The SCU and LNU fire complexes have reached 60- and 63-percent containment, respectively; a 25-year-old Hayward man allegedly led cops on a transbay chase after carjacking a Porsche, and a Healdsburg man says he set some grass fires on Saturday because he was "having a bad day."

The City College of San Francisco and SF State University have reported huge drops in enrollment, at least 50,000 wildfire evacuees are now allowed back home, and a member of the Oakland A's tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of today's game against the Houston Astros — which has been postponed.

The woman who died in an early August house fire in Bayview has been identified, police reportedly arrested at least 10 individuals during Friday night’s protests in downtown Oakland, and Chadwick Boseman — star of Marvel's history-making “Black Panther” — passed away Friday.

A Foster Farms chicken processing plant in Merced County has been shut down amid a COVID outbreak, Oakland is turning an old CCA dorm into affordable housing, and the Commitment March is happening in D.C.

A peaceful protest in Oakland last night in solidarity with Kenosha gave way to some vandalism, two men remain missing in the Santa Cruz fires, and Santa Clara County is extending its zero-bail order through January.

A Daly City man has been charged in federal court in a tire-dumping scheme involving tariffs, wildfire victims can now apply for federal assistance, and three people were killed in a fiery crash in Walnut Creek Tuesday night.

The LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires are now nearly the same size, an Alameda library is creating a first of its kind "clean air center," and the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning across the Bay Area — that'll stay into effect until at least Monday night.

District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar has tested positive for COVID-19 and is showing "minor” symptoms, this year's Bay Area Black Restaurant Week is more important than ever, and Hadley Hall, the founder of Coming Home Hospice — SF’s history-making AIDS hospice — has died at 87.

A PG&E worker died helping firefighters in Vacaville on Wednesday, energy officials explain why California became so suddenly short on power this week, and Steve Bannon has been charged with fraud in New York.