Additional establishments will now be permitted to expand operations following months of COVID-related restrictions as San Mateo County moves from the state’s most restrictive purple tier to the less restrictive red tier.

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.