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.

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.