SF News Sonoma County and Others Begin Imagining Fire Season With Coronavirus Given that we do not know how long the coronavirus pandemic will remain a threat in the Bay Area — or if it may decelerate and resurge later in the year the way influenzas do — cities and counties have to begin planning for fire season in an entirely new way.
SF News Monday Morning Coronavirus Headlines: Nancy Pelosi Is Still on the Hill The CDC is now saying all gatherings of 50+ people should be canceled for 8 weeks, longshoremen in Oakland are nervous about the Grand Princess's trash, and Nancy Pelosi is saying that her half of Congress is staying open and will be the "last to leave."
SF News Inbound SFO Passengers Not Facing Any Special Screening After stories Sunday of extremely long lines at a number of U.S. airports as international travelers waited for special Customs screenings, Customs at SFO was apparently business as usual today.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Governor Newsom Orders All Bars and Nightclubs in CA to Close, Restaurants Can Operate at 50 Percent Capacity In an unprecedented statewide move, Governor Gavin Newsom announced in a press conference Sunday that he's ordering all bars, breweries, and wineries in the state to close, regardless of their size, in order to create "deep social distancing."
SF News Alaska Airlines Gate Agent at SFO Tests Positive For Coronavirus An employee of Alaska Airlines, reportedly a ticketing or gate agent for the airline at San Francisco International Airport, has tested positive for the coronavirus.
SF News Lake Tahoe Ski Resorts Shutting Down Sunday The next shoe to drop in the coronavirus pandemic is the early end to ski season in the Sierra — though the resorts say they will reassess the situation in a week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bars With Capacity Over 100 Ordered to Close For Seven Weeks; Restaurants Told To Limit Capacity An order went out late Friday from San Francisco Health Officer Dr. Tomas Aragon that forces the closure of bars and nightclubs with official maximum occupant loads of 100 people or more, and this led to the immediate closure of at least two Castro nightclubs.
SF News Day Around the Bay: All the Bay Area Coronavirus Updates for Friday the 13th Mayor London Breed has banned events of 100 or more people in SF, there are now six firefighters in San Jose who have tested positive, and Breed also announced a moratorium on all evictions stemming from the pandemic.
SF News Grand Princess Coronavirus Cases Likely Linked To Seattle Cases Through genetic analysis of virus samples, infectious disease detectives said Friday that the coronavirus cases that appeared on the Grand Princess cruise ship are very likely traceable back to the original Seattle case that spurred the hot spot to our north.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Zero Zero, Mourad and Other Downtown Restaurant to Offer Meal Delivery Many restaurants around the country are confronting the possibly devastating effects of social distancing recommendations, and restaurants in downtown San Francisco are already feeling the pain only a week into this mess.
SF News Instagram Account That Posts Pretty Photos Of SF Posts Trump Video On Coronavirus Whoever is running the Instagram account @sanfrancisco.city, which has otherwise been a fairly innocuous account that sticks to pretty photos of San Francisco, just revealed that they reside somewhere far from San Francisco and in a land that is still listening to Donald Trump. Or maybe Russia.
Business & Tech Complaints About Illegal Airbnbs in SF Quadrupled Last Year You may have thought that talk of illegal Airbnb units was a thing of the past, but new data from SF's Office of Short-Term Rentals (OSTR) suggests that scofflaws are back at in our fair city.
SF News Virus Updates: Five New SF Cases, Museums Shutter, Oakland Schools Close The total number of confirmed coronavirus cases in San Francisco went up by five on Friday, to 23, while the total count in Santa Clara County stands at 66. And the outlook for the entire country is looking increasingly dire.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tartine Union Vote In Dispute, Might Require Litigation Workers at Tartine Bakery and Tartine Manufactory voted on unionization Thursday, and the vote was a tight one — and currently the union is challenging 22 votes while Tartine management is challenging two.
SF News Weather Report: Settle In For a Wet Weekend Even though we were promised rain earlier this week that never came, the meteorologists seem to agree that we will most definitely be seeing a wet weekend around the Bay beginning Saturday, and a snowy one up in the Sierra.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: Caterers and Others Begin Laying Off Workers The Grand Princess cruise ship is almost empty of passengers, international travelers are scrambling to get home before the European travel ban takes effect tonight, and PG&E is suspending service disconnections due to the pandemic.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mayor London Breed Lunches At One Market, Restaurant Wants To Encourage People To Keep Eating Out Mayor London Breed on Thursday had lunch at One Market, in part symbolically to encourage San Franciscans to support the local economy and keep patronizing businesses, even as they practice varying degrees of social distancing.
Arts & Entertainment ACT and Berkeley Rep Cancel Shows, With Both Planning to Offer Video-Streaming Alternative The local theater community is being roiled by measures to stem the coronavirus pandemic, and today we learn that both American Conservatory Theater and Berkeley Repertory Theatre have canceled their current and upcoming shows for the next month. But video-streaming alternatives are on the way.
Arts & Entertainment Broadway Theaters, Disneyland Shut Down; SF Giants Delay Opening Day Social distancing measures hit the American entertainment and sports industries hard this week. And this is a very good thing, even though we are in uncharted territory both economically and societally.
SF News San Francisco Reports 4 New COVID-19 Cases, 3 From Community Spread After one day with no new cases, the San Francisco Department of Public Health says that it has four more confirmed cases in the city — and it will now be updating the tally daily at 10 a.m. instead of noon.
SF News San Mateo Health Officer Says Society Would Need to 'Grind to a Halt' to Stop COVID-19 Dr. Scott Morrow, the chief health officer for San Mateo County, is emerging as our local Angela Merkel — a no-nonsense, no-spin alarm-ringer about the coronavirus pandemic.
SF News SF's Lakeshore Elementary School Closes Due To Possible Coronavirus Exposure Four students at San Francisco's Lakeshore Elementary School and "several" of their adult family members have shown signs of respiratory illness, which has led to a 14-day closure for the school — which sits directly beside the high school that was shut down last week.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Newsom Enacts Statewide Ban On Large Events Salesforce is donating $1.5 million to the coronavirus fight, Nancy Pelosi says even elbow bumps might be unwise, and a Grand Princess passenger describes a very disorganized disembarkation process.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Kaiser Begins Drive-Thru Testing For Coronavirus All performances of 'Hamilton' and 'The Last Ship' have been canceled for two weeks, California nurses are protesting the CDC's recommendations, and a major crash blocked eastbound lanes of I-80 in Berkeley today.
Arts & Entertainment Woman Documenting Grand Princess Cruise on Twitter Tweets Videos of Grandmother Dancing, Singing in Quarantine A 23-year-old Bay Area woman and her grandparents have finally, happily, arrived back on land, and they're doing a lot of singing and dancing about it on Twitter.
