37-year-old San Francisco native Brandon Lee was airlifted back to SF this week from the Philippines after being shot and gravely wounded in August in what many have characterized as an extrajudicial assassination attempt by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
A small swarm of earthquakes struck again Tuesday in the area around Hollister where a 4.7M quake struck two weeks ago.
Sonoma County's massive Kincade Fire grew to 75,415 acres in its fifth day, growing in footprint by around 9,000 acres, but picking up thousands of acres in containment lines to reach 15 percent containment during relatively calm winds on Monday.
Around 40 Kincade fire evacuees are taking shelter at St. Mary's Cathedral, fire crews battle to save areas burned in 2017 and currently reconstructing, and a bid to save an East Bay movie theater gets a boost.
Facebook employees voice dissent over political ad policy, Novato research lab copes with power outage with generators, and a Castro falafel shop has triumphed over a competitor's attempt to thwart its move into the 'hood.
Your San Francisco 49ers have now gone 7-0 for the season, after a decisive victory against the Carolina Panthers at Levi's Stadium on Sunday. And rookie defensive end Nick Bosa was the star of the game with three sacks and an interception.
A fresh round of public safety power shutoffs (PSPS) is expected to begin Tuesday afternoon and last until Wednesday morning — and for some who lost power over the weekend, they may not be seeing it turned on again until this next "wind event" dies down.
It remains a dynamic situation in northern Sonoma County where the Kincade Fire more than doubled in size Sunday night in terms of acreage burned and burning.
The owner of the bar Small Wonder on Oakland's Grand Avenue, who reportedly fled to Mexico in late 2017 in order to avoid being tried in Minnesota on sexual abuse charges, has allegedly returned to Oakland, fired the staff of the bar/restaurant, and plans to reopen it under his management.
New BART GM Robert Powers is going station to station every Wednesday, allowing you the opportunity to give him heck in person.
The air quality around the Bay, and particularly for inland towns southeast of the Kincade Fire, will be getting worse throughout the day on Monday as wind patterns shift back to the normal onshore flow.
Despite the power being shut off to surrounding areas in the East Bay on Sunday, live wires in an area that was not part of the shutoff in Lafayette appear to have been the cause of two separate fires.
With winds whipping it up and pushing it further south, the Kincade Fire in northern Sonoma County grew to 66,000 acres and began spreading into areas around Santa Rosa that burned in the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
Muni drivers impacted by North Bay fires and power shutoffs aren't coming to work, three people were killed in an Amtrak collision in Richmond, and Vallejo is having a water emergency due to the power shutoff.
Two small fires began Sunday afternoon on either side of Highway 24 in Contra Costa County, and county fire officials say the fires are "rapidly expanding" in the current winds.
A wildfire that broke out Sunday morning near the Maritime Academy in Vallejo is now burning in both Solano and Contra Costa counties after jumping across the Carquinez Strait. Both the bridge and I-80 have been closed as a result.
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Fueled by the gusty wind conditions that continue to blow through Northern California – with some squalls measured at 80mph – the Kincade Fire has now swelled to over 30,000 acres, forcing 180,000 Sonoma County residents to evacuate.
PG&E continues its previously planned power outages, Apple to spruce-up United's SFO terminal, your air mask isn't as effective filtering wildfire smoke as you'd think, and more Sunday links.
In an odd two-birds-with-one-stone throw, Muni has plans to build its first-ever housing development at Potrero Yard, helping both revitalize the outmoded concrete court and (hopefully) introduce over 250 affordable housing units in the process.
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Yesterday’s calmer than expected winds, while helpful, weren’t enough to give firefighters the leverage they needed to contain the spreading Sonoma County blaze. Now, 50,000 Healdsburg residents are placed under mandatory evacuations.
Fires continue to scorch California, Trump sent some very presidential tweets regarding San Francisco this morning, San Jose is knee-deep in a street art renaissance, and more Saturday headlines.
The governor declares states of emergency for Sonoma and Los Angeles counties, Airbnb hosts offer free housing to fire victims and rescue workers, and Uber is moving to Mission Bay.
Hundreds of millions of eggplant-colored sea urchins are devouring our state’s pristine, undulating kelp forests by the literal mile. Now, their insatiable stampede seems to be ascending northern California's coastline, reaching as far as Oregon.
The latest map of potentially impacted areas in the upcoming weekend public safety power shutoffs by PG&E includes wide swaths of every Bay Area county except San Francisco.
The Warriors left their home court advantage in Oakland, as the roars of ‘Roaracle Arena’ quickly quieted in a 141-122 blowout loss to begin their tenure at the Chase Center.
