The state avoided rolling blackouts on Tuesday but a few Bay Area cities cut power briefly on their own, BART is fixing a heat-related track problem in the East Bay, and several schools in Novato don't have AC so they're ending the schoolday early this week.
The Queen of the Netherlands held court in the Castro, Sup. Connie Chan’s November housing ballot measure survived a legal challenge, and several California cities saw their all-time highest temperatures recorded Tuesday.
Formerly the springtime kick-off of street fair season, it appears the How Weird Street Faire is now becoming an autumn festival, as they just announced their 2022 version will be Saturday, October 15.
Convicted Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and her attorneys are again trying to keep her out of prison, this time based on what they say is new evidence from a former Theranos employee and key witness for the prosecution.
People who bought bras and underwear from Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty label were allegedly enrolled in a recurring monthly fee program without their knowledge, according to a lawsuit from the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office.
Two men serving time at a minimum-security detention facility in Clayton sprung the place Sunday morning and remain at large, though one of them only had four more months to serve.
Formerly San Francisco-based e-cig maker Juul Labs has just settled one of a slew of lawsuits that it's still facing over the marketing of its products to young people, and over the potential harms of its products.
Today could be one of the most taxing days ever on the California power grid, and it got off to a troublesome start, as thousands are without power in Livermore due to transformer failures.
Californians are being asked to conserve energy use Tuesday afternoon if at all possible, as the threat of blackouts looms with the pending demand for power during the late-day heat.
Two women were shot, one of them fatally, on Friday night in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunters Point.
A Monday evening brush fire in the hills near Martinez prompted an evacuation warning but was quickly contained, it hit 97 degrees in SF on Monday breaking an earlier record, and 18 people died in vehicle crashes statewide over the holiday weekend.
Having begun construction in 2018, the GGB's suicide prevention net system — a $211M project ideated back in 2015, but has experienced many setbacks, some spurred by the pandemic — is now set to be done by November 2023, a full two years past its originally planned completion date.
Firefighters saved a six-month-old baby after being left in a hot car in Oakland, don't forget that nightly street sweeping and parking meters are still enforced today by SFMTA, and the current Bay Area heatwave is now expected to last until Thursday.
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) registered a 3.5-magnitude earthquake near Mount Hamilton in the Diablo Range — less than 25 miles from downtown San Jose.
Since starting Friday, the Mountain and Mill fires in Siskiyou County have collectively burned over 13,000 acres... with little containment reported for each fire.
Two pedestrians were killed in San Jose Saturday, the Bay Area’s Spare the Air Alert has been extended to at least Sunday night, and this Labor Day weekend’s heat wave will bring its warmest days Monday and Tuesday.
As this weekend's heatwave descends on the Bay Area, thirty volunteers are participating in a community heat mapping project — called Urban Heat Watch— as part of SF's effort to better understand and locate "heat islands" in the city.
A 12-year-old girl was shot in Pittsburg during a fit of road rage, UC Berkeley will require face masks for students who opted out of flu shots, and the Bay Area Air District has issued a Spare the Air Alert for smog Saturday.
Wine Country tourism is eerily slow this summer, a new poll suggests that most Americans believe democracy is “in danger of collapse,” and deputies from the Alameda County Sheriff's Office arrested someone who allegedly stole — and crashed — an Oakland Police cruiser this week.
The names and Social Security Numbers of nearly 21,000 people got into the wrong hands, as the 49ers quietly acknowledged in notifications to those folks that their information was breached in a February ransomware attack against the team.
State Senator Scott Wiener introduced a bill that would allow teens to get vaccinated without parental consent; which led to an anti-vaxxer saying “expect a visit from me and my rifle,” which led to that fellow now being on trial on eight felony counts.
Two demonstrators from a June 2020 George Floyd protest won a quarter million dollars after being shot with rubber bullets, and the Oakland Police Department has agreed to not use “explosive grenades on peaceful crowds.”
A major apartment building fire on Wednesday at Divisadero and Haight displaced 12 residents, some of them low-income and/or elderly — and a fundraiser has been launched to help them out. Also, the ground-floor restaurant, Phuket Thai, is likely to remain closed for a long while.
Just after SF real estate magnate Victor Makras was found guilty of bank fraud, we learn his son is trying to turn over a new leaf with a proposed Ingleside-Mission Terrace cannabis dispensary.
San Francisco police are offering a $25,000 reward in the hopes of solving a cold case from last fall — a homicide in which a homeless man's sleeping bag was set on fire in the Mission District.
