Matt McNamara's Pretty Good Advice has opened in downtown San Jose with farm-sourced $10 breakfast sandwiches and house-baked bread. The walk-up counter leans on seasonal produce from the chef’s Santa Cruz farm.

Zoox is lining up a downtown San Francisco storefront at 301 Sutter St to serve as a rider lounge and public outreach hub as it scales its robotaxi program.

UCSF landed $824 million in NIH awards for fiscal 2025, funding AI, cancer and infectious‑disease research and boosting the Bay Area life‑sciences economy. The haul cements UCSF’s status as the top public NIH recipient in 2025.

A city report shows permits are lagging while thousands of Mountain View units sit approved or in review but unbuilt, complicating the push to meet an 11,135‑unit state target.

Oakland will collect roughly $860,000 from OUSD to cover the 2022 school-board election, resolving part of a long-running billing dispute as the district faces steep cuts.

An Oakland wrongful‑death suit and new class actions have sharpened scrutiny of Abbott’s FreeStyle Libre 3 sensors after reports of false low readings and deaths. Regulators are urging users to check serial numbers and switch to fingersticks when readings don’t match symptoms.

Fifty-four SFO AirTrain electrical and maintenance workers struck, accusing contractor Alstom of bargaining in bad faith. The airport says it is monitoring the situation.

Clear skies now, but a warming trend will push interior San Francisco into the 70s and possibly the 80s by early next week. Heat‑safety tips and cooling resources inside.

Chevron told state leaders that proposed Cap‑and‑Invest changes could force refinery closures and hike gasoline prices, threatening jobs and fuel reliability across California.

Align Real Estate filed plans to redevelop the Hayward Park Safeway at 1655 El Camino Real into nearly 400 homes with a replacement grocery at ground level.

State fire officials say small debris burns have escaped recently; follow permit and pile‑size rules, keep water nearby and call 911 if a burn spreads.

A proposed ordinance would require most dogs in San Francisco to be sterilized, create an unaltered-dog permit and impose escalating penalties; the Public Safety committee hears it Thursday.

A Monterey County inmate was found dead inside his cell at Pelican Bay State Prison on March 9. CDCR and Del Norte prosecutors are investigating the apparent homicide.