- A stretch of the state’s main interior artery in North Los Angeles County will be closed for an “unknown” period of time due to the 165-acre-and-counting Route Fire, CalTrans said. By Lauren Hepler
- Drivers are asked to find alternate routes around the Rio Vista crossing. By Lauren Hepler
- The incident Tuesday afternoon in San Jose follows years of increasingly frequent shootings on regional freeways. By Lauren Hepler
- Vacaville resident and recent community college graduate Tyler Kincaid, 25, was reported missing after leaving home to start classes at Cal Poly Pomona on Aug. 24. By Lauren Hepler
- After 20 years of drama, financial uncertainty and blown deadlines, BART is preparing to launch the second phase of its Silicon Valley extension. By Rachel Swan
- More Californians may be buying electric cars, but barring a change in state law, they won’t have access to the carpool lane unless they’re carrying passengers. State clean-air decal programs are set to end by 2025. By Michael Cabanatuan
- After months of tense negotiations, California legislators announced that they have brokered a deal to advance a pair of bills that would allow millions of housing units to be built in sleepy and vacant commercial corridors. By Dustin Gardiner
- The delays, which impacted the San Francisco line in the East Bay and Daly City SFO./Millbrae directions, were caused by unauthorized personnel in the Transbay Tube. By Trisha Thadani
- Currently, there are no plans to put the fences back in place. The fences were erected at the request of Supervisor Hillary Ronen in an effort to discourage illegal vending which officials say is making the area unsafe and lawless. By Emma Talley
- Plans for a bullet train line that could zoom passengers from the Central Valley into downtown San Francisco took a major leap forward this week when rail officials signed off on the 43-mile extension. By Dustin Gardiner
- A Southwest Airlines flight en route to Hawaii was forced to make an abrupt landing back at Oakland International Airport after the plane experienced a “mechanical issue,” according to the airline. Southwest would not elaborate on the details of... By Annie Vainshtein
- Plans for congestion pricing have been “paused” in San Francisco while New York City moves toward becoming the first U.S. city that charges a toll to enter its busiest districts. The proposal has sparked controversy. By Michael Cabanatuan
- Traffic on the popular Bay Bridge has nearly rebounded to 2019 levels with slight changes to its busiest days and peak congestion times. By Ricardo Cano
- The group maneuvered through cars and caused traffic jams for 30 minutes on Saturday afternoon. By Rachel Swan
- The city’s transportation agency has to decide on the program amid a politically fraught environment that the mayor is also navigating. By Mallory Moench
- The man, whose identity hasn’t been released, boarded at 6:48 p.m. on Wednesday at the Bay Fair Station and was found unresponsive at the Berryessa Station around 2:20 a.m. Thursday, according to the transit agency. By Joshua Sharpe
- The battle over whether to create a toll to enter and leave the island starting in 2024 may prove to be the first political test for recently appointed Supervisor Matt Dorsey, whose district includes Treasure Island. By Justin Phillips
- A 55-hour closure for the southbound connector between Interstate 80 and Interstate 680 in Fairfield will start Friday night, Caltrans said. By Jordan Parker
- The Dumbarton Bridge was once a sensation and symbol of the future — the first bridge to span the San Francisco Bay. By the time the original bridge was demolished in 1984, it had become a punch line. By Peter Hartlaub
- A person was struck and killed by a Caltrain near Rengstorff Avenue in Mountain View Thursday morning, Caltrain said. By Jordan Parker
- The Great Highway was closed to through traffic during the early days of the pandemic, but starting last August, the city let cars on the road again on weekdays. By J.D. Morris
- An appeals court found a California law providing paid sick pay for time missed because of the illness of a worker or a close relative doesn’t apply to railroad workers, who are covered by a federal law with fewer benefits. By Bob Egelko
- Caltrain struck and killed a person in Palo Alto Saturday afternoon, halting trains and closing a crossing. By Mallory Moench
- The final 6 miles of the seemingly never-ending Marin-Sonoma Narrows freeway widening project on Highway 101 is finally under construction. Work to eliminate one of the Bay Area’s most notorious choke points started in 2011 and is expected to be... By Michael Cabanatuan
- A fence has been put up to deter illegal vending and open-air drug use at 24th Street Mission plaza, an act officials hope will curtail chaos above the BART station. By Annie Vainshtein and Mallory Moench
- What initially appeared to be a tiny home stuck on the Bay Bridge captured commuters’ attention after it caused a traffic back-up on Wednesday afternoon. By Annie Vainshtein
- San Francisco’s decades-in-the-works Central Subway extension has been delayed once again, the Municipal Transportation Agency said Tuesday. By Ricardo Cano
- The council voted unanimously to reject an appeal filed by a coalition of four local unions that argued for more environmental analysis — an appeal that delayed the project for 10 months. By Sarah Ravani
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What can San Francisco learn from other world-class cities? Residents share ideas from global travelClean streets, less homelessness, more bike lanes and far better public transit. Chronicle readers share what they saw on recent trips abroad and how it compared to San Francisco. By Heather Knight
- Travelers were ordered to evacuate the international terminal at the San Francisco International Airport because of a bomb threat, San Francisco police said Friday evening. By Annie Vainshtein and Danielle Echeverria
- Cruise, the company testing driverless taxi rides at night on San Francisco streets, was aware that its vehicles were often stalling, an anonymous employee told the California Public Utilities Commission. The commission approved the paid robotaxi... By Michael Cabanatuan
- At least one person in a vehicle was injured after colliding with an oncoming train near 50th Avenue in East Oakland, according to the Oakland Fire Department. A reported 1,200 gallons of diesel fuel spilled out as a result of the crash. By Jordan Parker
- S.F. Muni fare inspector staffing has remained steady throughout the pandemic, while fare evasion citations issued and revenue have mostly dropped off. By Chase DiFeliciantonio
- On vacation in London, columnist Heather Knight rode the subway system’s new Elizabeth Line. That project took about the same amount of time to build as San Francisco’s Central Subway line despite being far more expansive. By Heather Knight
- Supporters of a campaign to reopen Golden Gate Park’s John F. Kennedy Drive and the Great Highway to car traffic say they’ve gathered enough signatures to qualify their measure for the November ballot. By Ricardo Cano
- A crash Monday morning on the San Mateo Bridge severely snarled westbound traffic, according to California Highway Patrol. By Jordan Parker
- San Francisco voters’ narrow rejection of last month’s Muni bond dimmed the prospects of repairing Muni’s aging transit control system that still runs on floppy disks, but new state grant funding will help make up some of that lost capital. By Ricardo Cano
- In what appears to be part of a growing international campaign by anonymous climate activists, a Bay Area nurse says her SUV’s tires were deflated by someone who left a letter stating, “ATTENTION — your gas guzzler kills.” By Ricardo Cano
- The scheduled closure will affect two of the four lanes on northbound Highway 101 near Sausalito. By Annie Vainshtein
- The future of Lake Street, which has been restricted to cars for two years, is now up in the air after a Friday SFMTA announcement. By J.D. Morris
- Pigeons and their poop have long menaced the El Cerrito del Norte BART station. A hawk named Pac-Man is riding, or flying, to the rescue. By Ricardo Cano
- Dozens of motorists have driven off the cliffs and died around Devil’s Slide in San Mateo County. Will Caltrans’ new plans make it safer? By Vanessa Arredondo
- Appeals court says online platform Turo, which lets car owners rent their own vehicles to others, is not a car-rental company and does not have to pay rental fees to SF for parking and picking up customers at SFO. By Bob Egelko
- Unsafe speed may have played a role in a crash that killed a 33-year-old man on Interstate 80, just west of the Bay Bridge toll plaza, authorities said. By Jessica Flores
- Three people were killed and another three injured after the car they were riding in collided with an Amtrak train Sunday afternoon in the area of unincorporated Brentwood, officials said. By Megan Cassidy
- The shooting on a Daly City-bound train was the second instance of gunfire aboard public transportation in the Bay Area in a matter of days. By Lauren Hernández
- Footage of a deadly shooting inside a Muni train shows the man who was killed apparently attacking the shooting suspect with a knife moments before the killing, according to surveillance video clips reviewed by The Chronicle. By Megan Cassidy
- San Francisco police officials announced Friday that they arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing one person and wounding another on a Muni train this week. By Annie Vainshtein
- The tracks carrying the East Bay BART train that derailed this week exceeded a temperature of 140 degrees. By Annie Vainshtein
- Large crowds will again test BART and Muni this weekend — BART’s 10 busiest Sundays of all time have all fallen on the last Sunday in June. By Ricardo Cano
- One person was killed and another injured Wednesday morning following a shooting that occurred inside a Muni train between the Forest Hill and Castro stations. By Megan Cassidy
- A BART train derailed between Concord and Pleasant Hill stations during rush hour Tuesday, injuring one person and shutting down a segment of the line in both directions, as people hustled to get home for the day. By Rachel Swan
- The driver accused of crashing into a Muni bus in San Francisco on Saturday, injuring six people, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, among other charges, authorities said Tuesday. By Jessica Flores
- BART officials said the transit agency recorded its largest number of riders on Monday since March 2020 — and the onset of Bay Area pandemic stay-at-home orders that caused ridership numbers to crater. By Jordan Parker
- BART’s red line service from Richmond to Millbrae was cancelled Sunday due to a “power cable issue,” the transit agency said. By Jessica Flores