Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home has been (sort of) cleaned up after it was vandalized, Oakland rents continue to trend downward, and a 4.3 magnitude earthquake this morning around 6:42 a.m. rocked Pinnacles in Monterey County.

California has some new laws taking effect today, the Bay Area added 6,000 new COVID cases on New Year's Eve and 91 deaths, and police in San Jose dispersed some sort of protest Thursday night that they say became unlawful.

The holiday light displays in Golden Gate Park won't be turned on tonight, SF General is seeking help identifying an elderly patient found in the Mission on Christmas Eve, and the Red Cross in the Bay Area is pleading for more convalescent plasma.

Biden criticizes the vaccine rollout and vows to speed it up, BART is refusing delivery of new train cars until two problems are fixed, and those super-tall container cranes are arriving under the Golden Gate Bridge this morning from China.

Thieves and vandals targeted shops on Clement Street over the holiday weekend, a UCSF infectious disease specialist pushes for "harm reduction" on New Year's Eve, and Vice-president-elect Kamala Harris and her husband get their COVID vaccines.

CA legislators are postponing the effective date for a flavored-tobacco ban, actress Lori Loughlin is walking out of a federal prison in the East Bay today, and the CHP says they arrested 300 drunk drivers over Christmas.

Cal Fire officials have said that this year’s wildfire season will end Monday, it appears rain got the better of the gingerbread monolith at Corona Heights Park, and a ring of suspended ice crystals — known as a moon ring or winter halo — captivated denizens of the Bay Area Saturday night.

Older Bay Area residents are likely next in line to receive the coronavirus vaccine, a jolly Santa gave out gifts to the Oakland Zoo’s animals yesterday, and SF’s Chinatown was eerily quiet on Christmas — a day usually filled with tourists and locals alike walking the neighborhood.

It's going to be a Dungeness crab-free Christmas today, there was an indoor mask-free church service at the controversial Calvary Chapel in San Jose yesterday, and a large Good Boy took a tumble down a rocky cliffside near Coit Tower — but was safely rescued.

The SF Board of Supervisors may be extending a lifeline to Chinatown businesses, taxi drivers protest in San Francisco, and UCSF has run out of the Pfizer vaccine and has begun administering the Moderna vaccine.

Local tamale businesses see a dip in Xmas sales, San Jose State's football team is traveling all over and not quarantining, and emergency repairs are underway on the Pacifica seawall where it meets the municipal pier following King Tides and rough surf.

One man was fatally shot and another was wounded on 101 near Cesar Chavez Monday night, the SF Board of Supervisors is holding a special hearing today on reopening schools, and San Mateo County may file criminal charges against a gym owner for refusing to stop indoor workouts.

Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has started shipping out, San Francisco's "Tree Twins” continue to spread holiday cheer across the city this year, and an Oakland man believed to be related to a series of armed robberies dove into San Francisco Bay while trying to elude authorities.

Some SF City officials are pushing back against the ban on outdoor dining, a small mini-mart will be held at the Mission Bowling Club today, and SFO employees have started making sure incoming travelers are aware of SF’s mandatory 10-day quarantine.

Businesses in SF's Chinatown are asking the mayor for more financial relief, a drone operator helped rescue a woman in high surf in Pacifica, and the federal government is giving California less of the Pfizer vaccine than promised in its next shipment.

SF Mayor London Breed says she's still "fighting for the single people" who are trapped at home under health orders, a new testing site in the Mission has some long waits, and the Bay Area is in for another dry spell after this rain.

A Santa Rita Jail inmate stole a golf cart on his way out of jail to drive to BART, one SF supervisor thinks the Board's holiday recess is "inappropriate" this year, and the Morgan Hill area was shaken by a pair of small earthquakes around 7:15 a.m.

Bay Area hospitals are prepping to receive vaccine doses today, protesters gathered outside London Breed's apartment Sunday chanting "People need to eat!", and those new BART stations in the South Bay are basically sitting empty and costing a lot to operate.

The Pfizer vaccine began shipping to distribution centers across the country Sunday morning, San Francisco's only Olive Garden location has permanently closed, and four people were injured Saturday afternoon in a Muni-involved accident.

Another free-testing drive finds that COVID-19 disproportionately affects SF’s Latinx communities, Credit Karma is moving its operations from SF to Oakland, and the Zodiac Killer's "340 Cipher" has been cracked by a team of code experts — 51 years after it was sent in a letter to the Chronicle.

BART is hosting the final meeting of the year on Balboa Park Station redesign plans, UCSF is prepping to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses, and the man swept out to sea in Pacifica on Tuesday is presumed dead.

A person was fatally struck by Caltrain in San Francisco Tuesday night, California set a new record for daily COVID cases with over 35,000, and it's IPO Day for DoorDash.