Brief showers early Thursday clear to sun but bring gusty northwest winds and small-craft advisories. Expect a warm, dry weekend with highs near 80°F inland.

The Santa Cruz Mountains sent their regards at 1:41 a.m. Thursday, and the Bay Area received them. The USGS has since walked back the magnitude — but the shaking, and the Reddit spiral that followed, were very much real.

A new international index puts San Francisco ahead of every other U.S. city, ranking 45th worldwide. The Happy City Index credits parks, governance and health and mobility measures.

A jury convicted Lisa Gonzales of second‑degree murder and found she used a knife in the 2018 Mission District dismemberment of her roommate.

Oakland closed the Peralta Cabins tiny‑home village this week, but several residents are refusing to leave. They say the alternative shelter offered is unsafe and inadequate.

A solo-vehicle crash and fire on Lincoln Avenue in San Rafael left a driver dead. Police and the coroner are investigating and asking witnesses to come forward.

Apple’s fitness chief Jay Blahnik will leave in July amid reporting of a toxic work environment and a pending lawsuit set for trial in 2027.

A Salinas search warrant uncovered about five pounds of meth hidden in a cooler next to a child's bed, plus firearms and crack cocaine; a 27-year-old was arrested. Authorities booked the suspect on narcotics, weapons and child endangerment counts.

Sir Paul McCartney headlined a private Apple Park concert for Apple’s 50th, singing Beatles favorites under the campus arches as staff looked on. The gig capped weeks of global anniversary events and came with commemorative employee swag.

A United Airlines 787 from Papeete to SFO hit severe turbulence; a flight attendant was seriously injured and the NTSB has opened an investigation.

Anthropic accidentally pushed a debug file that exposed roughly 512,000 lines of Claude Code to the public; the company says no customer data or credentials were exposed.

Vallejo City Unified will reopen its December vote to close three elementary schools and hold more community meetings as it re-examines budget and enrollment data.

A Redwood City driver who pleaded no contest to DUI causing injury in a 2023 I‑580 crash that killed a 22‑year‑old faces a six‑year term at a Friday sentencing. The plea dismissed a manslaughter count.