It was only Thursday that United Airlines announced they would offer rapid coronavirus testing at the airport in San Francisco for passengers taking its Hawaii flights. Testing would be available by appointment, with results available in 15 minutes, and the airline hoped the $250 price point would come down in the near future. Since then Hawaiian Airlines also announced same day airport testing coming for its passengers for $150. The State of Hawaii plans to allow people to enter the state without 14 day quarantine starting October 15, provided they present a negative Covid test taken within 72 hours of arrival. United says the state will accept their Abbott rapid tests. Now Oakland airport is announcing that its Hawaii passengers can get rapid tests for free starting October 15.

On the November ballot is an eighth-cent sales tax for Caltrain that proponents say is needed to save the railroad from a pandemic-induced financial crisis and also realize plans to grow service to BART-like levels over the next two decades.

Parts of Santa Rosa that either burned or were in view of the burning three years ago were under mandatory evacuation orders Sunday night as more fast-moving fire spread into Sonoma County from Napa earlier in the evening.