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Major Heat Wave to Impact San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California Starting Monday
San Francisco, CA — The National Weather Service (NWS) is forecasting a significant heat wave to impact the San Francisco Bay Area beginning Monday and continuing through Wednesday. After a relatively pleasant weekend, temperatures are expected to soar to 10-20 degrees above normal, bringing widespread moderate to major heat risk throughout the region.
Roads closed after two-vehicle collision in San Jose leaves man dead
(KRON) — One person is dead after a two-vehicle collision Sunday afternoon in San Jose, the San Jose Police Department announced on X. The crash happened in the area of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Bayliss Drive where a solo male driver died at the scene. The other vehicle involved in the crash was driven by […]
‘Highly aggressive’ day-biting mosquitoes found in Santa Clara
(KRON) — A “highly aggressive” mosquito species that feeds “almost exclusively on humans” was detected in Santa Clara, county officials warned on Monday. The county’s Vector Control District found Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in a residential area of the City of Santa Clara. The district identified 58 mosquitoes surrounding Agate Drive and Moraine Drive. Aedes aegypti are […]
Feds order Cruise to pay $1.5M penalty for infamous SF crash
Federal regulators on Monday announced they had Cruise pay a $1.5 million penalty for withholding details in reports following an accident nearly a year ago in which one of the company’s self-driving cars pinned and dragged a woman nearly 20 feet at a San Francisco intersection. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration consent order dated to Sept. 26 requires the General Motors subsidiary to submit a corrective action plan, which must include summaries on any software update made to the company’s automatic driving system, as...
Here's how the Bay Area is coping with day 1 of fall heat wave
The San Francisco Bay Area is under an excessive heat warning through Wednesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. It was upgraded from a heat advisory early Monday."We're going to see temperatures that are similar to much, much hotter summer temperatures here," Michael Stanton, a CSU East Bay Professor of Public Health said. "As much as it feels, you look at the calendar and you see October, we're going to have to take precautions like it's the middle of the summer in the Bay Area."VIDEO: Bay Area bracing for 1st day of fall heat wave with public safety power...
Silicon Valley community college district offers free tuition
West Valley College student Mike Katakis and his dad are among thousands of students who will earn part of their college education in Silicon Valley for free. West Valley-Mission Community College District’s tuition will be free for the next seven years for all students who live in San Jose, Campbell, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Santa Clara or Saratoga, funded by about $2 million in property taxes from those communities. The opportunity is thanks to a recently signed law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Assembly Bill 3158, slated to sunset in 2031, applies to full-time, part-time and returning students in these areas. Full-time tuition costs about $1,100 a year, which students outside the area will still have to pay without state assistance. Officials say the initiative will fill equity gaps created by the California Promise program’s limitations that leave out part-time and returning students.
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