A Safeway employee was shot in the parking lot of an American Canyon shopping center on Sunday, lightning-caused fires in the East Bay are still burning, and victims of the Golden State Killer will be offering testimony for four days ahead of his sentencing.

There’s a possibility for more rolling blackouts as the heat wave continues to stick around, one person died and several others were injured in an SF police chase Saturday night, and some 50,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled into the Oakland Estuary after Friday's outages.

This weekend's heatwave has already caused parts of the Bay Area to see record high temperatures, The Creamery cafe — known for its tech industry elite clientele — is closing, and stop by Miyako Old Fashioned Ice Cream, the only Black-owned ice cream shop in SF, to help stay cool today.

Two people died in boating accidents on Lake Tahoe on Monday, water mains burst around the East Bay last night leaving people without water, and Ritual Coffee is having a reckoning over race.

A driver has been arrested on manslaughter charges after the death of a pedestrian on SF's Cathedral Hill, a 3.9M quake hit northern Sonoma, and a 17-acre site in the Sunset is finally getting developed into housing.

A list of speakers for the DNC is leading to new Biden VP speculation, small gym owners continue pleading with the city to reopen, and New Zealand's 102-streak of no new COVID cases has just ended.

State officials said someone would be held "accountable" for the major COVID data glitch, the school year begins today for kids in Oakland, and the SF Fire Department has very few COVID cases despite employees likely exposure to infected people.

SF's Chinatown businesses continue to struggle (even more so than others) amid the pandemic, a two-alarm apartment fire early Sunday near Hayes Valley left one firefighter injured, and Dolores Park was packed yesterday — with many people ignoring COVID-19 safety measures.

A new self-administered COVID-19 testing site opens in Berkeley today, the almost 14-acre Regional Shoreline Park fire was contained early last night, and file this away under the "WTF 2020" folder: zombie cicadas — mind-controlled by a fungus — have returned to West Virginia.

NY Attorney General Letitia James is moving to dissolve the NRA, SF and San Mateo still have COVID numbers just above the danger threshold, and Alameda County is giving people a stipend to self-isolate after testing COVID-positive.

A body found by the road in San Bruno last month has been ID'd as a Vallejo man, Marin County is discussing a Sir Francis Drake Blvd. name change, and Clorox says its wipes won't be fully restocked until next year.

A San Francisco judge denied a legal challenge by landlords to the city's COVID eviction-protection law, a trackside fire caused major delays on BART's Berryessa line today, and a Vallejo couple of 35 years both died of COVID within 11 days of each other.

The Apple Fire in Southern California has burned at least 15,000 acres and displaced over 7,000 people, SF's beloved beer garden Toronado is preparing to reopen soon, and San Mateo was ordered by the state to shutter indoor gyms, malls, salons, etc. Sunday.

At least 100 laptops were stolen from St. Thomas the Apostle School earlier this week, owners of the Michelin-starred State Bird Provisions and The Progress have shut down both eateries amid COVID-19 concerns, and a local biotechnology company has started producing "surface testing kits.”

Berkeley police are investigating an officer-involved shooting at a CVS, CA's prison population just dipped below 100,000 for the first time in 30 years, and will Kamala Harris be Joe Biden's VP pick?

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is back in the hospital, a boy who was fatally struck by an Amazon truck in Lafayette has been identified, and Mayor London Breed pushes back on pay raises for city employees.

Doctors say the "worried well" are slowing down COVID test results, Newsom is withholding aid from two Central Valley towns for defying health orders, and San Quentin's outbreak could still be a huge problem for the region.

Santa Cruz County just landed on the state watch list, the Coalition on Homelessness is decrying the displacement of homeless people for a PGA tournament, and Bill Barr is telling Congress why protesters should be abducted.

Trump and Biden are attacking Twitter and Facebook in new ads, police presence tamps down Lake Merritt gatherings, and a woman was shot and killed this morning outside a 7-11 in Antioch.

Oakland approved plans to allow RVs on vacant residential lots, the SF school district's Names Advisory Committee is looking into renaming schools with controversial presidents' names, and the Muni driver who was beaten after asking riders to wear face masks is expected to make a full recovery.