Residents of the hill country in Sonoma and Napa counties and out in the East Bay should brace themselves for more fire weather and possible power shutoffs this weekend as another heatwave shapes up and more Diablo winds are being forecast.
The destructive CZU Lightning Complex fire in Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties was declared fully, 100-percent contained on Wednesday, five and a half weeks after it was sparked and 86,000 scorched acres later.
Johnson & Johnson has begun a final-stage trial of its one-shot COVID vaccine in 60,000 volunteers, Newsom is making a big climate announcement today, and the Giants hold on to a wild-card spot.
A City Hall employee has resigned in a weird case involving emails and a discrimination suit, SF officials thought the city would enter "orange" tier status today, and Santa Clara County just became the first in CA to make Juneteenth a paid holiday.
The city's Department of Elections is making plans for socially distanced voting booths, and how to process a surfeit of absentee and mail-in ballots. And if you still haven't registered on Election Day, you can still do it outside Bill Graham and vote!
A vacation rental just outside the city limits of Sonoma played host to a Friday night party with dozens of guests from outside the county, and the party ended with at least 30 shots fired.
Another “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal hits UC Berkeley, as a new audit finds students from households with donor and staff connections inappropriately cruised through the admissions process.
As of Tuesday, three more Bay Area counties joined the four already in the second or "red" tier of the state's pandemic monitoring map, meaning that they're eligible to reopen indoor dining, churches, and gyms at limited capacity, and more.
The former SF supervisor who preceded Hillary Ronen in representing the Mission and Bernal Heights, David Campos, has just landed a new gig working for District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
Three months free rent? No problem. Free Peloton bike? Totally on the table. Prospective tenants are getting all kinds of concessions as SF rents fall 20-percent year over year.
A vegetation fire prompted evacuations in Belmont yesterday, Trump is still saying the coronavirus "affects virtually nobody," and Facebook is ready to lock down communication amid post-election violence and unrest.
The CDC was once again dicking around regarding COVID transmission guidance, there's a vigil tonight for a 16-year-old Oakland girl killed last week, and a WWII bomber crash-landed in Stockton on Saturday on its way back from Hawaii.
The arguably exploitative business model of companies like Postmates and DoorDash has inspired some spirited innovations from bars and booze businesses, and some are turning to old-fashioned methods.
San Francisco isn't likely to see cruise ships in the Bay anytime before next spring at the very earliest, but cruise companies are already talking about October 31 being a possible restart date for an industry that just five months ago was synonymous with contagion.
Another illegal sideshow happened around 1 a.m. Sunday in the Bayview District, during which some shots were fired — possibly just into the air. The SFPD apparently didn't make it there fast enough to shut it down right away, even though they established a new unit for this last week.
Over the weekend, a Pacifica resident captured video of a mountain lion — possibly a juvenile — crouched in his yard apparently watching children playing on their bikes outside.
The San Francisco 49ers will be less concerned with going through game film Monday as they are with what doctors have to say about newly sustained injuries to even more essential Niners players.
San Francisco residents in multiple neighborhoods report signs and stories of multiple burglaries, as thieves may be trying to take advantage of a large percentage of residents who have temporarily fled the city.
Cool air will prevail for most of this week, as the marine layer off the San Francisco coast gathers some strength after remaining pretty weak for two days. But then more hot weather may be on its way.
Pelosi says "we would win it all" if the election were tomorrow, damages are being assessed in the North Complex fire, and hospitals in the Bay Area say they are starting to see their first flu cases of the season.
After an unusual Saturday afternoon hearing in SF, a federal judge entered an order that temporarily blocked a Trump Administration mandate banning "downloads" of the Chinese-owned global messaging app WeChat — keeping it in popular app stores for at least a little while longer.
Bay Area eateries have been plagued by a recent onslaught of piss-poor reviews on sites like Yelp and Tripadvisor — not related to food, mind you... but in regards to enforcing mandated COVID-19 safety measures and issues with third-party delivery drivers.
A father and son were rescued off a cliff at Fort Funston Saturday after attempting to climb down it to the water below, a string of sexual battery cases has shaken the otherwise sleepy Sea Cliff neighborhood, and a huge crowd of generally unmasked people gathered at Fort Mason yesterday afternoon.
Get your last inhales of cool, crisp, breathable air this afternoon — because smokey horizons and worsening air conditions are likely to be over our heads again later this evening.
Friday night around 7 p.m., hundreds gathered at The Castro's Harvey Milk Plaza — hearts heavy, tears in their eyes, covering lit wicks from modest breezes — to both mourn and celebrate the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
