A Flood Watch covers Lake Tahoe and Truckee Tuesday as slow‑moving storms may bring heavy, localized rain and flash flooding. Officials urge monitoring alerts and avoiding flooded roads.

Passengers on a small boat off Moss Landing captured rare footage of orcas leaping and tossing dolphins during a dramatic hunt in Monterey Bay.

A man identified as the driver in a 2017 South San Francisco hit-and-run that killed Teresa Gonzales was arrested in Israel and returned to face felony charges in San Mateo County.

A tower computer outage at Sonoma County Airport forced multiple Alaska Airlines flights to divert to nearby airports, leaving passengers with hours‑long detours.

Wood Tavern — the Rockridge brasserie that opened in 2007 — will close when its lease ends later this year, owners Rich and Rebekah Wood said. They plan to keep sister restaurants open.

A driver was killed and a passenger hospitalized after a Jeep crashed on SR‑128 north of Tubbs Lane near Calistoga. CHP says the driver was ejected and the investigation is ongoing.

An 82-year-old San Anselmo man was arrested and booked on attempted murder charges after police say he attacked his roommate with a hammer. A Marin judge set a plea hearing for Aug. 4.

San José police say a 22-year-old was detained after an adult woman was found dead in the 2100 block of Lanai Avenue; the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.

The CrossFit Games take over San José this week, with more than 10,000 fans expected across SAP Center and the McEnery Convention Center.

Apple Music quietly raised subscription prices last Friday, lifting individual, family and student plans. The increases appear on Apple’s pricing pages and change the Apple One math for some households.

UTRF has sued Anthropic in Delaware, saying the maker of Claude used university‑owned neural‑network patents; the foundation seeks damages and an injunction. The case arrives as Anthropic faces other legal pressure.

Nvidia released full specs for its Vera CPU — 88 cores, LPDDR5X memory and dense liquid‑cooled racks — and says early chips are already at OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX. Analysts say the launch could reshape the server CPU market.

Susumu Tonegawa, the Nobel-winning biologist who unlocked antibody diversity and later mapped memory engrams, died July 11 at age 86. His work reshaped immunology and neuroscience.