La Onda, the BottleRock-produced Latin festival in Napa, has been canceled; organizers promise refunds and say they hope to return.

New research and market swings are testing the YIMBY movement even as California presses ADUs and transit upzoning. The fight is far from decided.

Acorn Ridge Casino opened Feb. 24 in Plymouth, a 60,000‑sq‑ft tribal casino with hundreds of slot machines, table games and a farm‑to‑fork restaurant. Tribe leaders say the project will bring jobs and new revenue to the Sierra foothills.

Light rain moves into San Jose Tuesday; heaviest bands will fall in the North Bay. Expect wet roads and patchy fog Wednesday morning.

Rain moves through the Bay Area Tuesday, heaviest in the North Bay. Expect slick roads and possible nuisance flooding.

Kiri is turning its pop-up success into a permanent izakaya at 510 Union St., aiming to open in fall 2026. The team plans sit-down izakaya service in North Beach.

Livermore‑based Aalyria closed a $100M Series B at about a $1.3B valuation to scale its Spacetime orchestration software and Tightbeam laser terminals. Investors backed the spinout to speed commercial and government deployments.

Gilead agreed to buy Redwood City’s Arcellx for $115 a share plus a sales‑linked payout, consolidating the anito‑cel CAR‑T program under Kite. The FDA has set a Dec. 23, 2026 action date for the BLA.

After years on the street, Roadman moved into a San José tiny home and later into his own apartment — a personal outcome Mayor Matt Mahan used to spotlight the city’s interim-shelter strategy. Local counts and budget questions complicate the victory lap.

Sprinklers activated at a three‑story North Capitol apartment as SJFD responded; crews found no active fire and no injuries.

Gwendolyn Westbrook, former CEO of the United Council for Human Services, faces nine felony counts accusing her of misappropriating more than $1.2 million from a homelessness nonprofit.

A routine Jan. 22 traffic stop in Brisbane uncovered a 36-year-old fugitive wanted in Houston on child-sexual-assault and indecency charges.

Park police and county deputies say they used a drone to monitor a wanted vehicle and arrested a suspect at Arrowhead Marsh without incident.