Elizabeth Rodriguez

All 24 schools in the Santa Rosa City Schools district will be shuttered on Monday due to dangerous weather and fire conditions, power shutoffs and nearby evacuations, school officials said Saturday.

Mandatory evacuations of 50,000 residents have been ordered Saturday for Healdsburg and Windsor due to concerns that the Kincade Fire will be fueled overnight by forecasted gusty winds.

Five schools in Santa Rosa will be closed on Monday due to the PG&E Public Safety Power Shutoff, the Santa Rosa City Schools district announced.

The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday blasted PG&E amid the utility’s Public Safety Power Shutoff, which has affected more than 700,000 customers throughout the state since Wednesday.

The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued an air quality advisory through Friday as smoke from wildfires in the Sierras moves into the region.

A former San Mateo police officer is facing the possibility of life in state prison after a jury Wednesday found him guilty of raping five women over the course of two years while on duty, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.

Five people have been detained after a report that shots were fired Monday evening on the platform of the Pittsburg/Bay Point BART station, BART officials said.

The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for North Bay mountains above 1,000 feet between 8 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday.

Police are investigating after two employees who recently left Tesla allegedly failed to return company laptops and were reported for theft, the Palo Alto Police Department said Friday.

A woman in San Francisco’s North Beach neighborhood came home Thursday morning to find a stranger sleeping in her son’s bed, police said.

A Nevada man was arrested after a police dog on Thursday morning sniffed out nearly 23 pounds of methamphetamine stashed in the trunk of a car parked near Los Prados Park, police said.

San Francisco Supervisors Hillary Ronen and Matt Haney announced on Tuesday several compromises to an extensive overhaul of the city’s mental health treatment they have proposed to enact through an upcoming ballot measure.

A man with nine prior felony convictions was convicted this week of pimping and human trafficking charges for bringing a 15-year-old Stockton girl to Oakland to perform acts of prostitution along an infamous stretch of International Boulevard known as the “Track.”

Pope Francis on Friday warned tech company executives, diplomats and financiers that the race to create artificial intelligence and other forms of digital development pose the risk of increasing social inequality unless the work is accompanied by an ethical evaluation of the common good.

Vacaville police on Saturday arrested a man who allegedly attacked and seriously injured his father, a police sergeant said.

Oktoberfest by the Bay will be celebrating its 20th Year in San Francisco this weekend.

San Jose park rangers have started carrying the nasal spray naloxone that is used to reverse an opioid overdose.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded a $7.5 million grant to support three autonomous vehicle demonstration projects as part of an Automated Driving System pilot program in the East Bay, according to the Contra Costa Transportation Authority.

The last call for bars and clubs to sell alcohol will remain at 2 a.m. Friday night was the last night for the California Legislative session and lawmakers kept working until the early morning hours.