Cal Fire and local fire crews have been battling the fire in between Geyserville and Las Lomas since Sunday, when flames ignited off Stewarts Point-Skaggs Springs Road.
One injury was reported by Cal Fire.
Two structures were destroyed and three were damaged, as of Saturday morning.
The Sites Fire, in Colusa County, which started on Monday and has impacted Bay Area air quality, was 35% contained on Saturday morning and had burned 19,195 acres.
A heat advisory is in effect for much of the Bay Area on Saturday as temperatures will reach into the 90s in some places and into the triple digits further inland.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders reached a nearly $300 million budget agreement on Saturday that closes a $46.8 deficit that was projected for the coming fiscal year with across-the-board cuts of nearly 8% to every department.
The $297.5 billion budget is proposed for both the 2024-25 fiscal year and the 2025-26 fiscal years, a maneuver the governor in May called a "budget year, plus one" proposal that he said would help bring spending in line with revenue projections over the next two years. The gap was closed with a combination of $16 billion in cuts and other financial tricks, such as $13.6 billion in additional revenue sources and internal borrowing from special funds. It shifts around $6 billion in spending, delays or defers over $5 billion in payments, and draws over $12 billion over the next two fiscal years from the state's Budget Stabilization Account known as the rainy-day fund.
The cuts include $1.1 billion to various affordable housing programs and $500 million from the California Student Housing Revolving Loan Program, which was established in 2022 and gives zero-interest loans to universities and colleges to build affordable housing.
About $2.2 billion is saved by the 7.5% cut to every department's budget. An additional $1.5 billion was reduced from departments' budget to fill vacancies.
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Police in San Leandro asked for the public's help on Saturday locating a 55-year-old missing woman with severe dementia and schizophrenia.
Kimberly Cooper was last seen at her residential care home near Bristol Boulevard and International Boulevard at about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.
Cooper is a Black woman with grey hair and brown eyes. She is 5-foot-8, about 190 pounds, and was last seen wearing black pants, a black shirt and a turquoise vest.
Cooper is considered at-risk. Anyone who sees her is asked to contact the San Leandro Police Department at (510) 577-2740 or call 911 in an emergency situation.
The California Highway Patrol issued a Silver Alert in Alameda County for Cooper at 1:53 p.m.
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Some minimum-wage workers in the Bay Area lose thousands of dollars every year because employers don't pay what the law requires. For many, language and cultural barriers stop them from knowing their rights.
Yanfen Li's parents-in-law worked in San Francisco for about seven years, earning less than minimum wage, to prepare for Li and her family to join them from China. Friday, she stood with a multilingual coalition at the 24th Street Mission BART Plaza to make sure other San Franciscans heard that minimum wage will rise in July to $18.67.
If minimum-wage workers put in 40 hours per week, they'll take home an extra $24. The Workers' Rights Community Collaborative, a publicly-supported coalition of multiracial area nonprofits, worried that some employees won't know about the raise and wouldn't be able to advocate for themselves if employers didn't follow the law. Roughly 25 coalition members came to spread the word.
Bay Area workers lose more than $4,300 per year on average to minimum wage violations, according to a recent report by Rutgers University's Workplace Justice Lab, which studies how organizations lessen economic inequality. Researchers said the amount more than doubled from 2014 through 2023, "growing particularly dramatically over the most recent year of the study."
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A 39-year-old San Francisco man was reported missing on Saturday, several weeks after he was last seen in Chinatown.
Kelvin Yee is 5-foot-9, about 150 pounds, and was last seen in Chinatown on May 28 wearing a black coat and jeans. He has black hair in a buzz cut.
He was heading to Half Moon State Beach at 95 Kelly Ave, according to a message shared on social media by San Francisco Supervisor Aaron Peskin, who asked for the public's help finding Yee.
If anyone sees Yee or has information on his whereabouts, contact local authorities in an emergency. Otherwise, call (737) 471-4709 or email kelvinyeesf@gmail.com, contacts shared on the post on X by Peskin.
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The police are seeking help to locate a missing at-risk 68-year-old woman, according to a silver alert issued by San Leandro police Saturday.
Hongwei Yan was last seen near her home on 1700 Clarke Street in San Leandro at around 7:15 a.m.
Yan stands at five feet, weighs 100 pounds, and has white hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a white and blue jacket, black shoes, and a gray backpack.
The police said that Yan has mental health-related ailments.
The woman speaks Mandarin and may be in possession of Chinese currency, according to the notice.
Anyone with information about Yan's whereabouts may call San Leandro police at (510) 577-2740
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