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Firefighters were battling a small blaze Friday in steep forest terrain in San Mateo County, west of Redwood City. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Longtime permit consultant and contractor Walter Wong has agreed to pay back more than $1 million to San Francisco - money he secured through noncompetitive grants and contracts with the city's Public Works and Public Utilities Commission, the City Attorney's Office announced Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The earthquakes that roiled the Truckee area late Thursday not only demonstrated the importance of early detection systems - but also served as a jarring reminder of the fault lines snaking beneath the Tahoe area. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For nine minutes, an Alameda police officer tried to engage a man in a park who didn't appear to be harming anyone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For the first time in more than 400 days, fans will be inside Chase Center on Friday when the Golden State Warriors play the Denver Nuggets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Some laid-off leisure and hospitality workers may have another chance at getting their old jobs back after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday that will create a right to re-employment for those who lose their jobs during the pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A man was shot and killed in San Jose on Wednesday before the shooter turned the gun on themself, according to police. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Alameda County Sheriff's Office is being sued by a man who said he was arrested and jailed for two days after being mistaken for his brother, who had a warrant for his arrest. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Citing a dwindling number of people incarcerated in the state's prison system, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation announced that it is closing a prison in Susanville - the second prison closure announced in a year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Four alleged militia members associated with the extremist Boogaloo movement were indicted on charges of destroying evidence relating to the shooting of two federal security officers in Oakland last year, one of whom later died, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A massive rockslide shut down part of Highway 50 in El Dorado County for hours Friday, cutting off a popular route used by Bay Area residents traveling to South Lake Tahoe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The gunman who killed five people in South Carolina on Wednesday, including a doctor, the doctor's wife and two of their grandchildren, was identified by police as former 49ers and Raiders defensive back Phillip Adams, who then took his own life, authorities in Rock Hill, S.C. said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

University of San Francisco officials are investigating after a noose was found hanging off the balcony of a student dormitory last month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sonoma County's district attorney has filed criminal charges against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. over the 2019 Kincade Fire, which destroyed 374 buildings and burned about 78,000 acres in the wooded hills of Wine Country. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The two women killed after their car plunged off the edge of a Bodega Bay cliff were identified Monday as an Alameda County teacher and her mother, authorities said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Gas prices in the Bay Area are, on average, the highest in the country - news that comes amid the gradual return of traffic volume, a likely corollary of the region's gradual reopening. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Authorities in San Jose are looking for the driver of a white Mercedes-Benz sedan that hit a woman crossing the road in a wheelchair before fleeing, police said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A teenager who went missing after running away from her home in San Leandro has been found, the Alameda County Sheriff's Office said on Friday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says a Santa Clara County sheriff's deputy forced a Muslim woman to remove her hijab after her arrest in February, and the woman wants the county to change its practices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With no fanfare or celebratory music, nearly 6 million more Californians became eligible for coronavirus vaccinations on Thursday when the state opened the door to people ages 50 to 64 - and the first thing many did was search for an appointment. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anticipating another devastating year for wildfires in California, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he was setting aside more than $80 million in emergency funding for firefighting in preparation for this year's fire season. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Niners defensive lineman Kevin Givens faces an assault charge stemming from a February incident in Baltimore, court records in Maryland show. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A San Bruno casino was fined more than $5 million after federal officials say its operators misled gambling regulators and failed to immediately report that it was subject to a federal investigation, the California Department of Justice announced Thursday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State Assemblyman David Chiu is reintroducing a bill that seeks to create an integrated public transportation system in the Bay Area and solve issues brought on by the fragmentation of the area's various public transportation systems - thereby increasing public transit ridership. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A Black man has filed a lawsuit against an Alameda County hotel, saying he was discriminated against and berated by a manager while talking on the phone in the hotel's parking lot during his stay there last year. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California is poised to make coronavirus vaccines available to all residents 16 and older by the last week of April, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Friday, a move that would eliminate the tiered system that currently only grants vaccine eligibility to seniors, some essential workers and younger people with disabilities or underlying medical conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discussing the recent attacks against Asian Americans in the Bay Area and across the country, Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday drew parallels between the United States' past xenophobic attitudes toward Chinese immigrants and the racist rhetoric people of Asian descent continue to endure today. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Seeking to address "an epidemic of traffic violence," Assemblyman David Chiu is again introducing legislation that could pave the way for cameras with license-plate readers to enforce speeding laws on California streets. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Moraga coyote's reign of terror has - finally - come to an end. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

City College of San Francisco has issued preliminary pink slips to nearly 200 full-time faculty members and administrators - warning that the college's entire future may hang in the balance without significant layoffs. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Sandra Zuniga, the former director of San Francisco's Office of Neighborhood Services, has agreed to plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering and will cooperate with the continuing federal investigation into City Hall corruption, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco school officials on Monday released more details about their plans to get some of the city's more than 52,000 schoolchildren back into classrooms this spring after a year of distance learning that left many families struggling and sparked a lawsuit over reopening schools. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With California continuing to move toward a reopening of its economy, four Bay Area counties - Alameda, Contra Costa, Solano and Sonoma - remain in the purple, the most restrictive tier of the state's blueprint. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

State officials are pushing back against a TV report that said thousands of people vaccinated at the Oakland Coliseum this week received doses smaller than they should be. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Red may be the new purple in San Francisco, but not everyone is ready to rush back inside to eat, drink and be as close to merry as you can be during a pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Prosecutors in Alameda County will not file charges against a shop owner in Oakland's Chinatown who was arrested last month after shooting at would-be thieves. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A serial killer whose victims included a Bay Area woman was found dead in his cell at a state prison near Sacramento on Sunday, prison officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

An anti-mask group targeted a Santa Cruz Trader Joe's for the second time in recent weeks on Sunday, some of whom compared the grocery store to Nazi Germany for enforcing a county-wide requirement for shoppers to wear masks. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday abandoned its appeal of a federal judge's ruling last year that a sprawling collection of Redwood City salt ponds is protected from development under provisions of the Clean Water Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Repairs on the chunk of Scenic Highway 1 near Big Sur that crumbled into the Pacific Ocean after a rainstorm last month are expected to be completed early this summer, Caltrans officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Authorities serving a search warrant for stolen vehicles in Sonoma County said they also ended up busting an alleged cockfighting breeding operation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday abandoned its appeal of a federal judge's ruling last year that a sprawling collection of Redwood City salt ponds is protected from development under provisions of the Clean Water Act. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Repairs on the chunk of Scenic Highway 1 near Big Sur that crumbled into the Pacific Ocean after a rainstorm last month are expected to be completed early this summer, Caltrans officials said. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Authorities serving a search warrant for stolen vehicles in Sonoma County said they also ended up busting an alleged cockfighting breeding operation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

California will release about 75,000 vaccine doses every week for counties to administer to teachers and other education workers, under a plan announced by the governor's office Thursday that further prioritizes educators to quickly get schools reopened. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Wednesday she expects the city to enter the less restrictive red tier next week - meaning restaurants, movies and other businesses could open with limits - and exit purple, the most restrictive of California's four-tier system for reopening the economy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Scientists at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito are working to find out what killed a rare pygmy sperm whale that washed ashore in Sonoma County over the weekend. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The entire school board for the Oakley Union Elementary School District abruptly resigned Friday, two days after members were caught on an open microphone disparaging parents and using profane language at the start of a virtual board meeting. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The winter storms that slammed the Midwest with snow and ice, plunging large swaths of Texas into darkness, have caused widespread vaccine delays in California. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]