Jessica Flores

As California braces for a heat wave this week, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. warned Sunday of potential power shut-offs in parts of the Bay Area and elsewhere in Northern California to help prevent its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires. PG&E officials were monitoring weather conditions for a possible public safety power shut-off Tuesday in Colusa, Glenn, Lake, Napa, Shasta, Solano, Tehama and Yolo counties. During the shut-offs, the utility preemptively turns off customers’ power in a…

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A Bay Area family mariachi band serenaded hundreds of festivalgoers during the first day of Festival La Onda, the newest edition to Northern California’s summer concert circuit.The nine-person Mariachi San Francisco moved through the Napa Valley Expo on Saturday, June 1, performing renditions of songs like Mariachi Nuevo Tecalitlán’s “Viva Jalisco” and Selena’s “Como La Flor” for the Latin music-focused festival. Meanwhile, a group of women danced zapateado — a traditional Spanish style of danci…

<img data-reference=“slideshow” data-document-id=“cms/api/amp/slideshow/BB1nw0dP” /><p>Festival La Onda is set to return to Wine Country.</p> <p>Minutes after the first-ever Latin-centric concert ended at 10 p.m. Sunday, June 2, tickets for the <a href=“https://preventa.frontgatetickets.com/?_gl=1*to4m70*_gcl_au*NDM3ODg3MTY1LjE3MTYzMTE2Nzg.”>2025 Festival La Onda</a> went on sale at <a href=“https://www.laondafest.com/”>www.laondafest.com</a>. The two-day festival is scheduled for May 31 and Jun…

A shooting in East Oakland left one man dead and another injured Tuesday night, authorities said. Officers responded to a report of a shooting just after 7 p.m. on the 10500 block of Foothill Boulevard near Interstate 580 and found a man who had been shot, the police department said. The victim, an Oakland resident, died from his injuries at a hospital, authorities said. His identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin. Another man — who was believed to be involved in the shoot…

A popular program that distributes free passes to California state parks through public libraries could soon end as lawmakers seek to close a $27.6 billion budget gap. Under the California State Library Parks Pass program, library card holders can check out passes that grant entry for one carload of day-use visitors to more than 200 participating state parks. The program, begun in 2022, aims to make access to the outdoors more equitable in California. The passes have become one of the most frequ…

The occupation of an abandoned UC Berkeley building near People’s Park by pro-Palestinian activists continued Thursday morning, university officials said. No arrests were made as of Thursday morning, said Dan Mogulof, a spokesperson for UC Berkeley. A group of activists took over the Alumnae Hall, on Bowditch Street and Channing Way, just before 2 p.m. Wednesday. They set up tents outside and said they were occupying the empty building because the pro-Palestinian encampment set up on campus was…

Longtime Bay Area resident Betty Reid Soskin, the country’s oldest national park ranger before retiring two years ago, has received an honorary doctorate from Cal State East Bay for her “exceptional accomplishments and contributions,” administrators said. The university in Hayward honored Soskin, 102, with a doctorate in humane letters during Saturday’s commencement ceremony for its College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences, university officials announced. Photos and videos show university ad…

UPDATED FORECAST: Here’s how long hot temperatures in the Bay Area will last Powerful winds are expected in parts of the Bay Area and Northern California on Wednesday, with wind advisories in effect through Thursday morning. A wind advisory for the North Bay interior mountains is in effect until 8 a.m. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. Winds are expected to reach 20 to 30 mph, with gusts up to 45 mph and as high as 55 mph in the Mayacamas Mountains in northern Napa and Sonoma…

UPDATE: Mint Butterfield case: Two adults charged with abduction of Slack founder’s child Mint Butterfield, the teenage child of Slack co-founder and former CEO Stewart Butterfield, was safely located Saturday in San Francisco after being reported missing last week, and a man the teen was found with was arrested for “multiple criminal violations,” authorities said. Mint, 16, was found inside a van that belongs to an adult male friend, identified as 26-year-old Christopher “Kio” Dizefalo, accordi…