It's one of those Halloweens where the actual holiday falls deep into the week after a weekend that will be filled with Halloween parties, so for die-hards, this is going to mean two or three different costumes.
While air quality in San Francisco on Friday remained good, that may be changing as the cloud of smoke from the Kincade Fire near Geyserville grows and shifts tonight into Saturday.
A shooting that we learned about on Thursday in a residence across the street from Lowell High School turns out to have been a fatal one, after a 21-year-old woman succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.
A deceased infant was found on a conveyor belt amid trash and recyclables Friday morning at a waste-sorting facility in San Jose.
PG&E's stock is hitting new lows Friday following news that one of its transmission lines may have again been responsible for a destructive wildfire, as it continues to try to emerge from bankruptcy.
Highway 1 remains closed near Muir and Stinson Beaches due to the Muir Fire, the power has been turned back on for "nearly all" customers in the latest shutoff, and one member of the Kendall-Jackson Winery family lost her home in the Kincade Fire.
![[Update] Kincade Fire Reaches 5 Percent Containment, Burns 21,900 Acres](https://img.sfist.com/2019/10/kincade-fire-sat.jpg)
The fire near Geyserville was at 5 percent containment as of Friday morning, and meanwhile meteorologists are warning of an "extreme wind event" starting Saturday night, unlike anything we've had since 2017.
Short-sellers lost over a billion dollars on Tesla stock today after the company reported profits, the SFPD responded to a shooting across from Lowell High, and it was hot hot hot all over the Bay.
South San Francisco as the new tech hub? Stripe just made the first move, heading for the biotech office park land where they’ll pay no payroll or gross receipts taxes.
Arabic comfort food hit Beit Rima is getting set to open a second location in the former Burgermeister space in Cole Valley next month, and now we learn that another Burgermeister location in Daly City will become Beit Rima as well.
![[Update] PG&E Tower 'Malfunctioned' Right Near Where Kincade Fire Started](https://img.sfist.com/2019/10/kincade-fire-view.jpg)
This seems big. The Chronicle is reporting in late-breaking news that a PG&E transmission tower "malfunctioned near the origin point of the dangerous Kincade Fire." While the cause of the fire is still unknown, this is a terrible development for the utility.
It's Fire Everywhere Day apparently, and on top of vegetation fires on the Marin Coast and in up in Santa Rosa and the major wildfire burning near Geyserville, a fire next to I-80 in Vacaville is causing a traffic backup, and another small fire has broken out near I-580 in Richmond.
A new piece of sound art installed at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) means to mimic and/or satirize the sinking and tilting Millennium Tower, and the artists who created it say the piece will remain in place "until the building falls or the building is fixed."
Yet another wildfire has broken out Thursday morning, this one on the Marin County coast just south of Stinson Beach.
A fast-moving wildfire began Wednesday night near Geyserville and The Geysers, threatening vineyards, prompting evacuations, and already causing damage to or destroying at least a dozen homes.
Around 35,000 PG&E customers are without power in the Bay Area, BART had major delays this morning, and more facts emerged in the Laguna Honda patient-abuse case.
Multiple suspects are still at large in the case of the Oct. 1 murder of Tushar Atre in Santa Cruz, an elderly pedestrian was killed in Oakland this morning, and the victim in Monday night's homicide in the Tenderloin has been identified.
After shutoffs that have already gotten underway in Sonoma and Napa counties and elsewhere Wednesday, with more to begin Wednesday night, weather models suggest windy conditions that could lead to power shutoffs for an even wider swath of Northern California on Sunday and Monday.
Dear Inga is a heartfelt love letter to Eastern Europe, and specifically to chef David Golovin's grandmother, and the three-week-old restaurant has already proven itself a welcome addition to the already food-destination-worthy 18th Street corridor.
One of three suspects believed responsible for an assault and robbery that left two elderly members of the Chinatown community injured has been arrested, according to the SFPD.
The San Francisco Methamphetamine Task Force recommends a slew of actions, and Mayor Breed has immediately OK’d a city-run meth sobering center along the lines of the alcohol sobering center it already has.
Francis Ford Coppola, the owner of the prominent, green-hued flatiron building at the intersection of Columbus and Kearny known both as Columbus Tower and the Sentinel Building, is looking to convert most of the landmark building into a hotel, according to new plans submitted to the city.
In a Today show interview earlier this week, retired NBA star Michael Jordan casually crapped on Warriors star Steph Curry, saying he wouldn't include him in a five-man "dream team" if he had to choose, and that Curry's "not a Hall of Famer yet."
A video has gone viral on Facebook and Twitter attached to a false claim that a group of peaceful — if disruptive — climate action protesters were antifa (or anti-fascist) protesters.
According to PG&E's latest projected outage map for the Public Safety Power Shutoff event beginning today, a large swath of the Sierra foothills will be impacted, as will around 27,000 power customers in Sonoma County.
