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5 days ago | sfgate.com | Timothy Karoff |Ida Mojadad |Kasia Pawlowska |Dan Gentile

To keep track of the Bay Area’s ups and downs, we started Fogcutter, SFGATE’s weekly column of happenings and events. Every week, SFGATE reporters put down their notepads, close their laptops and hit the streets to explore Bay Area parks, bakeries and concert halls. Our hope is to offer you a brief snapshot of local public life — a break from hard news and a reminder of the region’s liveliness and variety.

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Ida Mojadad

PG&E has agreed to pay a $7 million fine for alleged safety violations related to the 2022 Edgewood Fire in Redwood City. The California Public Utilities Commission, which confirmed the agreement to SFGATE on Friday, levied the fine in May after finding it violated 10 rules around safety maintenance. While it was not one of California’s largest or most destructive fires, the 2022 blaze injured four firefighters and burned 20 acres, causing nearly $2 million in damages to utility facilities.

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Ida Mojadad

San Francisco police on Tuesday caught a man “actively defacing” the memorial on Twin Peaks at about 12:30 p.m., officials said. Officers pursued the man on foot and arrested a 19-year-old man. He was booked into jail on suspicion of vandalism, possession of graffiti materials, and resisting arrest, jail records show. “Today’s vandalism of the Pink Triangle is yet another horrific attack on the LGBTQ community — at a time when our community is under intense assault on a daily basis,” state Sen.

1 week ago | sfgate.com | Ida Mojadad

For parts of the Bay Area, the past week or two of solidly overcast weather and its sun-deprivation effects were no doubt making some locals think of seasonal affective disorder — usually a winter condition. “This is the time of year we get what’s referred to as the June gloom,” said Matt Mehle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office. “If people are looking forward to some warm weather, it’s coming.”It won’t rise to a heat wave.

2 weeks ago | sfgate.com | Ida Mojadad

BART stopped service on one East Bay line Friday morning due to a “major medical emergency,” requiring riders to transfer at different stations and causing major delays. The service first stopped between Downtown Berkeley and Richmond stations at 6:50 a.m. due to an emergency near the North Berkeley station. A few minutes later, BART stopped Red Line service between Richmond and Millbrae altogether.