Bay Area communities are rallying behind local Black-owned businesses, the BART Board of Directors has given the OK for a mixed-use housing development near the West Oakland station, and as it turns out: self-swab COVID-19 tests are just as effective as those administered by a medical professional.

Hundreds showed up for a Women's March rally at Dolores Park yesterday afternoon to denounce both rampant racism and sexism, the Christopher Columbus statue at Coit Tower was vandalized Friday — its face and hands painted crimson red — and Zeitgeist unveiled their new socially distant "Zeit booths."

Oakland police tally up the damage from May 29, the SF DA's office is investigating the shoving of a protester by a sheriff's deputy, and Oakland schools are going to remove all cops.

BART and Muni are pausing today to honor George Floyd as he's buried in Houston, two small earthquakes struck this morning in Berkeley, and California is reopening movie theaters at 25% capacity.

A Santa Cruz County deputy was killed after an ambush Saturday, doctors warn tear gas and pepper spray might help spread the coronavirus, and the now-called Quail Fire burning in Solano County has grown to 1,400 acres — destroying at least three buildings and threatening a hundred more.

Dozens of political demonstrations are scheduled across the Bay Area this weekend, two free COVID-19 testing sites in Oakland still remain closed due to protesting, and because of newly installed railing slats — the Golden Gate Bridge is crooning.

Fire crews are battling a wildfire that appeared intentionally set in the San Jose hills, protests remained peaceful around the Bay last night, and a man was stabbed on a Richmond-bound BART train.

A wildfire in Suisun City has grown to 300 acres and destroyed seven homes, Vallejo residents say they are outraged that police are only now listening about use of force, and a small group of protesters were detained in San Francisco following an otherwise peaceful march in the Mission.

The SF Board of Supervisors may let the city's curfew expire on Sunday, the Defense Secretary has broken with Trump on the use of military force against protesters, and demonstrations in Oakland calmed down on their sixth consecutive night, with no arrests.

AC Transit is halting bus service at 7:30 p.m. amid curfews, the Union Square Business Improvement District has surveillance footage of looters, and Peninsula apartment rents are plunging.

Mayor Breed announced a curfew will be set from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. tonight, Target temporarily closes stores across the country amid nationwide protests, and the SpaceX Dragon crew makes history as the first humans to travel into orbit on a spacecraft built and operated by a private company.

Several more marches and protests held in the name of George Floyd are expected across the Bay Area this weekend, today marks the start of SF’s more extensive face-covering order, and the Mission District's vibrant shopping scene along Valencia Street continues reeling from COVID-19.

City College is pulling out of Fort Mason, the Vallejo nursing home outbreak has now killed 16 people, and Gap Inc. is reopening 800 stores this weekend.

Downtown office buildings now have to deal with all the stagnant water inside of them, a five-year-old boy was found dead in the American River, and Joe Biden called Trump "an absolute fool" for not wearing a mask.

East Bay Congressman Mark DeSaulnier reveals he spent four weeks on a ventilator during his recent bout with pneumonia, and a fight is escalating over the Prop. 13-related ballot measure to raise business property taxes.

See's Candies is reopening and ramping up production, SF parks and beaches were relatively busy but mostly socially distanced on Sunday, and the U.S. is now banning flights from Brazil due to the pandemic situation there.

The University of San Francisco will pay $2.5M to settle fraudulent charges, the front page of The New York Times today lists 1,000 lives lost to COVID-19, and, despite a stern warning from Mayor Breed, SF parks were mobbed yesterday.

Tom Hanks surprised graduating seniors at his Oakland alma mater yesterday, La Taqueria is expected to reopen for takeout next week, and Mayor Breed cautions San Franciscans to heed social distancing guidelines this holiday weekend at our city's parks — or they could be "shut down."

Santa Clara County is beginning curbside retail today and entering Phase 2 behind the rest of the Bay Area, a new study looks at deceased COVID-19 patients' lungs, and a missing Rohnert Park teen has been found unharmed in Salinas.