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Strongest Magnetic Storm Since September Erupts Over Northern Hemisphere
A strong geomagnetic storm sparking bright auroras erupted early Wednesday morning over the Northern Hemisphere, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.
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A strong geomagnetic storm sparking bright auroras erupted early Wednesday morning over the Northern Hemisphere, according to the Space Weather Prediction Center.
In one of the weirdest winter weather patterns in recent memory, New Year's brought 20 degree lows to the inland Bay Area, followed by highs in the 80s Tuesday in Santa Cruz.
The last thing you want on a cold winter morning is a cold shower, but that's exactly what residents of a San Jose apartment complex had to deal with for nearly a week after a large tree fell over last week, knocking out gas and hot water service.
Caltrans said a portion of Highway 1 in Marin County that was washed out by the December storms won't be repaired for some time. But the California Highway Patrol said drivers headed to and from Muir Beach have taken it upon themselves to move some of the barricades and drive past the closure, putting themselves at risk.
More than 40 people were stranded on a ski lift at a Central California mountain resort after strong winds blew a cable off its line.
A freak wind gust spinning through the narrow canyon where the Rose Bowl sits was caught on camera as people fled from the vendors' pop-up canopies as they were whipped by what felt like a "tornado."
Hypothermia is generally defined as having a core body temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit or lower and can occur when the outside environment gets too cold or the body's heat production decreases.
The cold weather and strong winds making for a chilly end to 2014 in the Bay Area are making for a white New Year's Eve in parts of Southern California.
Strong winds may have inadvertently caused a fire that damaged an apartment unit in South San Jose Tuesday night.
Twitter users took to social media to document some of the destruction from Tuesday's powerful Bay Area windstorm.
PG&E crews have restored power to 98 percent of the 195,500 customers who had outages in the Bay Area during Tuesday's strong windstorm, utility officials said Wednesday.
All eastbound lanes of Interstate Highway 80 that were closed due to downed trees and power lines in Vallejo have reopened Tuesday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Tuesday's high winds are wreaking havoc on BART tracks causing complete shutdowns in San Francisco's Mission, and in the East Bay.
Lands parched by a three-year drought just a few months ago are now seeing an explosion of both poisonous and edible mushrooms.
Winds gusting near 50 miles per hour or more toppled trees and PG&E power lines across Interstate 80, near Redwood in Vallejo, shutting down the entire freeway in both directions during the afternoon commute while PG&E crews turned off electricity to the downed wires and firefighters put out a small fire sparked by the damage.
Around 24,000 customers have lost power in the Bay Area Tuesday due to high winds, PG&E officials said.
The 60 mile per hour wind gusts due to slam the Bay Area overnight Tuesday could topple more trees, down power lines, and again plunge tens of thousands of people into darkness as wind shrieks through the trees around them. And behind that comes a blast of Arctic air, plunging temperatures down to the mid 20s.
The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Tuesday for all coastal and valley locations of the San Francisco Bay Area as well as Santa Cruz County.
A storm system combined with wind gusts up to 55 mph and temperatures in the mid-20s will create uncomfortably frigid conditions across the San Francisco Bay Area for New Year's Eve.
Winds gusting above 40 miles per hour and massive sneaker waves, significantly larger than the preceding swell are forecast to pound Northern California as a cold front roars in Christmas Eve.
While the rains have passed for a while, the earth continues to move in the Bay Area as a large hillside along a parking lot at Lands End in San Francisco started to slide on Monday.
Two Bay Area counties may get help from the state to repair and reconstruct highways after Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in those counties Monday.
The Bay Area almost never sees a white Christmas, but a chance of rain forecast for Wednesday could mean a wet Christmas.
The December storms that struck the Bay Area and the rest of the state has uncovered fossils on beaches and mountains along the Pacific Coast that date back anywhere from 5,000 to 10 million years.
BART officials warned passengers of major delays in all directions Monday afternoon after smoke and a possible fire on a train at MacArthur station required the evacuation of passengers from the vehicle.
A residential fire in a San Jose neighborhood Monday left two homes uninhabitable with extensive damage, fire officials said.
A vintage concept car from 1979 worth $1,000,000 was destroyed in a vehicle trailer fire along state Highway 1 in Monterey, authorities and the car's owner said Monday.
What appeared to be just shy of 10,000 people were seen on the march route—and the protest remained peaceful as it reached Park 578.
Trump also shared a fabricated image of Taylor Swift that reads, "Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump." She has not endorsed him.
BART officials warned passengers of major delays in all directions Monday afternoon after smoke and a possible fire on a train at MacArthur station required the evacuation of passengers from the vehicle.
A residential fire in a San Jose neighborhood Monday left two homes uninhabitable with extensive damage, fire officials said.
A vintage concept car from 1979 worth $1,000,000 was destroyed in a vehicle trailer fire along state Highway 1 in Monterey, authorities and the car's owner said Monday.
What appeared to be just shy of 10,000 people were seen on the march route—and the protest remained peaceful as it reached Park 578.
Trump also shared a fabricated image of Taylor Swift that reads, "Taylor wants you to vote for Donald Trump." She has not endorsed him.
Among the thousands of participants in Sunday's Giant Race on the San Francisco waterfront was a young man running to help exploited children.
Four people were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries early Sunday morning after a car collided with the corner of a building in San Francisco's Union Square neighborhood.
Firefighters rescued an injured man trapped inside a sewer pipe underneath the Great Highway in San Francisco's Outer Sunset neighborhood early Sunday morning, a fire department spokesman said.
Five vehicles involved in sideshows earlier this summer have been located, seized and impounded for at least 30 days, San Francisco police said Friday.
The Polo Field at Golden Gate Park is being readied for another major concert event one week after Outside Lands.
BART officials warned passengers of major delays in all directions Monday afternoon after smoke and a possible fire on a train at MacArthur station required the evacuation of passengers from the vehicle.
Police in Richmond have ordered a lockdown for a neighborhood in the city's Iron Triangle area while investigating a possible armed suspect on Monday morning.
The East Bay Regional Park District is asking residents to avoid young cows and their mothers through calving season, which will end in October.
Oakland Unified School District parents and school staff are speaking out after elevated lead levels were found in drinking water at multiple schools across the district.
Three people died in a crash that happened on northbound Interstate Highway 880 at the Warren Avenue overcrossing in Fremont early Sunday, the California Highway Patrol said.
A residential fire in a San Jose neighborhood Monday left two homes uninhabitable with extensive damage, fire officials said.
A vintage concept car from 1979 worth $1,000,000 was destroyed in a vehicle trailer fire along state Highway 1 in Monterey, authorities and the car's owner said Monday.
Police in San Jose have identified a bicyclist who died Sunday after being critically injured in a collision with a car.
A female pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle Sunday night in San Jose, according to police.
A bicyclist was taken to a hospital in San Jose Sunday morning after sustaining life-threatening injuries in a collision with a car, police said.
Firefighters made quick work putting out a grass fire in San Anselmo Saturday that threatened to explode into a greater conflagration.
A Santa Rosa man with multiple convictions for driving under the influence is again accused of driving drunk and causing a fatal collision on Friday.
A 54-year-old Petaluma man was arrested for allegedly attacking another man with a metal pipe, police said.
In Vallejo, it's been a summer of violence as residents and business owners are worried about safety, gun violence, and crime.
A North Bay man was arrested Friday for allegedly attacking a driver during a road rage incident earlier this month and tracking the victim down to harass him online.
After a long stretch of Cal football struggling (or worse), there is reason for optimism for the California Golden Bears as they head into their inaugural season with the ACC.
Brock Purdy went 2 for 6 for 11 yards but the 49ers beat the Saints 16-10 on Sunday night.
The Oakland Coliseum hosted the final Bay Bridge Series on Sunday between the A's and the Giants.
Jerar Encarnación and Michael Conforto hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the 10th inning, lifting the Giants to a 4-2 win over the A's on Sunday.
A teary and touched José Canseco was inducted to the A's Hall of Fame Saturday as a season-high crowd gathered for the first game of final Bay Bridge Series in Oakland.
Former congressman George Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December and indicted on 23 federal charges, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Police in Richmond have ordered a lockdown for a neighborhood in the city's Iron Triangle area while investigating a possible armed suspect on Monday morning.
Oakland police say two people were killed and two others are in critical condition following a shooting Saturday morning.
A Santa Rosa man with multiple convictions for driving under the influence is again accused of driving drunk and causing a fatal collision on Friday.
A 54-year-old Petaluma man was arrested for allegedly attacking another man with a metal pipe, police said.
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The San Francisco City Attorney's office is suing companies that create "deepfake nudes," where artificial intelligence is used to turn photos of adults and children into pornography.
Cisco Systems says it is planning to lay off 7% of its employees.
Staring at an iPad screen too much may keep little kids from learning to control their emotions, a new study finds.
Google on Tuesday unveiled its next generation of Pixel phones, providing the maker of Android software a head start on the next iPhone in the race to bring more artificial-intelligence services to devices.
The University of California's Nutrition Policy Institute is seeking toddlers who drink cow's milk to participate in a 12-month study.
Perdue Foods is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of frozen chicken nuggets and tenders after some customers reported finding metal wire embedded in the products.
Health officials around the world are keeping a close eye on an outbreak of mpox, formerly called monkeypox, in Africa.
Parents and other caregivers urged to stop using loungers linked to 5 fatalities and an infant bed tied to 1 death.
Florida cucumber grower used untreated canal water found to be tainted with salmonella bacteria, laboratory tests found.
What appeared to be just shy of 10,000 people were seen on the march route—and the protest remained peaceful as it reached Park 578.
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Former congressman George Santos, who was expelled from Congress in December and indicted on 23 federal charges, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Democrats from across the country are descending on Chicago for the convention, where the party will rally around Harris — and her new running mate — as the party's nominees.
On the eve of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, were on the road campaigning in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
As if it were just another day at work, San Francisco Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson spoke to city leaders and colleagues who had gathered to celebrate her retirement at the city's fire department headquarters Wednesday.
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San Francisco company the Parallel Opera is producing a special show entitled "Expansive" which celebrates the talents of gender nonconforming opera artists.
State lawmakers voted to make California the first state to officially observe Transgender History Month last year, partly thanks to the efforts of a Bay Area activist who lobbied for the move.
A popular gay bar in San Francisco is celebrating a major milestone.
Phil Donahue, a celebrated daytime talk show host who pioneered the television staple, died after a long illness, his publicist said in a statement.
Alain Delon was able to combine toughness with an appealing, vulnerable quality that made him one of France's memorable leading men.
Maurice Williams, who with his backing group the Zodiacs became one of music's great one-shot acts with the classic ballad "Stay," has died.
The Polo Field at Golden Gate Park is being readied for another major concert event one week after Outside Lands.
One of the most important bands to emerge from Los Angeles since the late 1970s returns to the Bay Area when pioneering punk outfit X plays two shows at the Guild Theatre starting Monday.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oakland Unified School District has seen an alarming spike in the number of unhoused students in the school system who deal with a host of challenges far beyond what most children face.
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A groundbreaking medical study involving the UCSF Medical Center has shown some colorectal cancer patients can safely skip radiation treatment and enjoy a potentially higher quality of life.
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