Fires that began Monday near Lake Berryessa in Napa have prompted evacuations in Vacaville and Winters, and a fire grew rapidly in Sonoma County overnight west of Healdsburg, creating a widespread evacuation order.
The need for rolling blackouts was averted last night, the SF Board of Supervisors approved a settlement over homeless tents with UC Hastings, and Apple is now worth $2 trillion.
Gov. Newsom declared a statewide emergency over the current spate of wildfires and the heatwave, a hurricane in the Pacific is set to possibly send us more thunderstorms this weekend, and SF General needs help identifying an unconscious woman.
The mind-numbing daily updates about the coronavirus have become, at this point, a lot of noise to many people — even though there are actual human lives behind each number. Still, certain figures are striking when you look back at the data.
PG&E is continuing rolling blackouts Tuesday, as necessary, to reduce strain on the electrical grid during this heatwave. And though you won't get advance warning as you would for a fire-safety shutoff, you can check a map to see if you're losing power at some point Tuesday afternoon or evening.
The postmaster general now claims he’s backing off his draconian postal service cutbacks, but Nancy Pelosi was in the Bayview Tuesday morning to vow she’ll keep pushing the envelope.
A newly worsening wildfire in rugged terrain west of Healdsburg in Sonoma County prompted an evacuation warning Tuesday that was pushed out to cellphones to all Sonoma County residents, raising alarm bells for many nowhere near the blaze.
San Francisco is not immune from racist nutjob conspiracy-loving covidiots, and a new one has offered us a fine performance, sans face mask, while railing against a Rec & Parks outreach worker in Dolores Park about the closure of the playground. To wit, she did not appear to have a child in tow.
San Francisco Police are now offering a reward of $100,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects involved in a July 4 drive-by shooting that took the life of a six-year-old.
It looks like a high-end SF Japanese restaurant's attempt at preserving the fine dining experience via outdoor plastic domes — and preventing panhandlers or other wanderers from bothering diners — is a violation of local pandemic health orders.
Five wildfires, four sparked by lightning, are burning around the Bay, including three now raging in Napa County that have grown larger in size than the two East Bay fires that began on Sunday.
Hundreds of San Jose residents are livid at PG&E for a 44-hour power outage, a case of bubonic plague has popped up at South Lake Tahoe, and Gap Inc. is shutting down three of its of four SF stores.
Five more CA counties got added to the watch list today, PG&E is warning of random rolling blackouts tonight and tomorrow, and the lightning-caused fire in St. Helena has been named the Hennessey Fire, and it is still growing.
An at-risk elderly man left his Sonoma County home on Thursday intending to run an errand in downtown Sonoma, but he has yet to return. On Monday, the sheriff's department said that his car had been located 65 miles north, in Clearlake.
You’re officially now at risk of being called in to jury duty again, as transparent masks, Zoom, and tiny jury pools have the wheels of justice turning once more.
Remember when President Trump was spouting a lot of malarkey in November 2018 about how California needed to do better with "forest management" and that's why he wanted to cut off FEMA assistance after the devastating Camp Fire?
The opioid crisis rages on in San Francisco's Tenderloin District and elsewhere across the Bay Area, despite being overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic in the last five months.
Another longtime SF institution isn't waiting around to see what happens when people are allowed to dine indoors again. Ton Kiang, which has been serving excellent dim sum and fried chicken wings for four decades on Geary Boulevard, is calling it quits on August 30.
Monday morning thunderstorms have sparked multiple vegetation fires in Napa County, including a significant-looking one in the woods near St. Helena, and a lightning strike took out power for 11,000 customers in Healdsburg.
Yet again this year we will be seeing a standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Donald Trump, as the House begins making the case that Trump and his new postmaster general have been deliberately sabotaging the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the election.
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.
It's starting to feel like an early 2000s Nelly song both inside our domiciles and while out running errands. In lieu of air conditioning and open public swimming pools, here are a few socially distant ways to keep yourself cool during this heat wave — that’ll last for at least a few more days.
As if this weekend's unusual — exceedingly, hellaciously — hot summer temperatures weren’t enough, Bay Area locals were treated to a rare lightning show last night and early this morning as wild thunderstorms roared through much of the region.
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.
With remote work more popular than ever — amid companies like Google and Facebook now saying employees can work from home well into 2021 — people are leaving SF in throngs. A new Zillow report further supports that idea, showing a 96 percent year-over-year increase in local inventory listings.
