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.
Squaw Valley will officially be dropping the name its had for 71 years after realizing it's offensive, Folsom Street is getting weekly Sunday street closures through October, and Wise Sons is merging with Oakland's Beauty's Bagels.
At the heart of still in-development Transgender District in the Tenderloin, and right at the intersection where Compton's Cafeteria once stood, activists and volunteers painted a mural on Sunday using the colors of the transgender flag.
The local artist and graphic designer responsible for those realistic-looking AirPod stickers that showed up on the ground around SF last fall has a new bit of tomfoolery to distract us from our pandemic/wildfire misery.
A volunteer group of amateur firefighters is taking it upon themselves to try to save homes in and around Bonny Doon in Santa Cruz County, as the state's firefighting resources are stretched thin with too many fires to battle.
The raw sewage, COVID-19 hotbed known as San Francisco County Jail No. 4 will close permanently on Labor Day weekend, ending an injustice at the Hall of Justice.
Thomas Fuller, the San Francisco Bureau Chief for the New York Times for the last four years, has been stuck covering wildfires for the last three very active fire seasons — and then came this one, starting off good and early. He is sounding really quite exhausted with it all.
This year's Carnaval in the Mission, moved from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend, will look a lot different than most years, but there may be a few dancers passing through.
Lower temperatures, higher humidity, and relatively calm winds have allowed firefighters to begin to get the upper hand on the three major wildfire complexes around the Bay. But the smaller Woodward Fire in Marin County continues burning and threatening homes.
After only one weekday back in service, all Muni light-rail trains are going offline again for at least several weeks following an equipment failure on Monday, and a worker in the Muni Metro control center testing positive for COVID-19.
Most of the trees in Big Basin Redwoods State Park appear to have survived the CZU fire complex, Alameda County is allowing hair salons to open outdoors, and former First Lady of SF Kimberly Guilfoyle gave a bizarre-ass speech at the RNC.
The remains of a woman missing in a 2005 Placer County murder have been found, Northern California is short on firefighting personnel, and a sideshow broke out in the Mission late Saturday/early Sunday.
The history of wildfires in both recent and less recent California memory is dotted with truly tragic events like the 2018 Camp Fire, as well as incomprehensibly large and destructive events that were not necessarily as tragic because few homes or people were lost to them.
We’re now feeling the full fury of coronavirus and wildfire crises happening at the same time, and the state is scrambling to make sure COVID outbreaks don’t hit thousands of shelter evacuees.
The California Supreme Court issued a ruling Monday upholding the murder conviction of Scott Peterson, who was convicted 16 years ago in the December 2002 killing of his pregnant wife, but it said his trial may have been unfair in the sentencing phase.
San Francisco International Airport just became the first airport in the U.S. to offer rapid COVID-19 testing to all airport and airline employees, with results in an hour or less.
Mother Nature has gone easy on us for once this month, and fears of overnight lightning storms failed to materialize, giving firefighters another night of calm, cool conditions to make progress on the three major fires burning in eight out of nine Bay Area counties.
As of Saturday, August 22, Muni riders have been getting to see how some major changes are working on the Muni Metro train lines — and Monday morning all the new signs went up erasing the K and L lines from core-tunnel stations.
Zoom users experienced a major outage today, air quality remains terrible around SF, and a Vacaville man claims to have saved his property by spraying flames with Bud Light.
While helping to contain the life-threatening, ever-growing CZU Lightning fire, a CAL FIRE ground commander had their department vehicle broken into, wallet stolen, and bank account completely drained this weekend; welcome to 2020.
The wildfires raging across the Bay Area haven’t just forced people to flee their abodes in droves — but they've also left thousands of pets and livestock to go without shelter amid the chaos. Dogs, rabbits, and even llamas are now filling up temporary animal shelters all over the region.
We are heading into a scary 48-hour period for the three massive wildfire complexes around the Bay Area as unstable air and possible thunderstorms move north from the remnants of Hurricane Genevieve.
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.
Saturday, it was confirmed the LNU Lightning Complex and SCU Lightning Complex fires became the second and third largest wildfires in the state’s history. Newsom before the weekend also pleaded to Canada and Australia for help to contend with this "unprecedented moment" in time.
With evacuation orders heaping and refugees now hunkered down inside hotel rooms, the Bay Area's reeling from yet another devastating spell of forest fires. And unfortunately: helping the victims and firefighters amid the pandemic is a less clear-cut action than one might think.
