SF News Monday Morning Updates: Cruise Ship to Dock In Oakland Around Noon The U.S. State Department issued a broad warning against cruise travel, a 5.8M earthquake strikes off the coast near Eureka, and an Oakland-based dog trainer was just convicted of animal cruelty.
SF News Day Around the Bay: UCSF Prepares For Covid-19 Uptick With Triage Tents More cruise-related virus cases appear in Placer and Contra Costa counties, Marin County is monitoring 11 recent cruise passengers, and UCSF Parnassus is preparing for 'Contagion'-style triage of new patients.
SF News Atmospheric River to Bring Three Days Of Rain Next Week It was apparently too soon to tell Thursday if more rain would come to end this parched streak we've had in the Bay Area, but now it looks like a huge storm system headed to Southern California will bring us several more days of rain as well.
SF News 19 Grand Princess Crew Members, 2 Passengers Test Positive For Coronavirus Vice President Mike Pence was the one to announce the cruise ship cases, saying one test remained inconclusive — and the ship is now headed to an unnamed "non-commercial port."
Arts & Entertainment Coronavirus Fears Shut Down Beloved Bay Area Treasure, the Exploratorium's Tactile Dome Museums around the Bay Area are either temporarily closing or curtailing some exhibits as fears of the novel coronavirus spreading widely take hold.
Arts & Entertainment South By Southwest Canceled — Could Coachella Be Next? In case you were one of the many who had a ticket to Austin next week and were planning to go to South By Southwest, you're not now.
SF News Cruise Ship Passengers May Not All Get Quarantined; Three New Virus Cases In East Bay Health officials in Contra Costa County say that there are three new cases of covid-19 there, two of which were passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship when it sailed to Mexico last month.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mad Dog in the Fog Closes, Popular Quiz Night Moves to Kezar Pub Mad Dog in the Fog is closing after more than 30 years in its home at 530 Haight Street, and the owner promises that the popular sports bar will be relocating.
SF News You Can Now Sign Up To Get Coronavirus Panic Text Alerts From the City of SF The City of San Francisco on Thursday launched a new text alert system specifically for updates on the spread of covid-19, now that SF has claimed its first two confirmed cases.
SF News Two Inmates Escape While On Day Pass to Delancey Street Foundation In SF A pair of inmates from San Joaquin County Jail escaped from custody Thursday morning in San Francisco and they remain on the loose.
SF News Friday Morning Constitutional: 45 Now Sick On Cruise Ship A Sunnyvale man who had been on the same cruise ship suddenly died Thursday, Prop E is set to severely curtail office development, and BART and Muni are doing a lot of scrubbing and disinfecting.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Coronavirus Contact Shuts Down Lowell High School BART was experiencing major delays after a small trackside fire near Balboa Park, 78 Sonoma County residents are being monitored for coronavirus after traveling on the Grand Princess, and Lowell High School is closed until at least Monday due to a parent being diagnosed.
SF News Cruise Passengers Off California Coast Describe Strange Scene On Board The Coast Guard helicopters dropped off sample kits to the ship this morning, and some passengers are being confined to their rooms, but many reportedly continue milling about the ship.
Business & Tech Facebook Pulls Down Trump Campaign Ads That Refer Confusingly to Census Facebook has made good on its policy barring ads that mislead users about the upcoming U.S. Census and removed a set of Trump campaign ads that created some confusion and referred to a "Congressional District Census."
SF News San Francisco Confirms First Two Coronavirus Cases, Both the Result of Community Spread At a press conference Thursday morning, Mayor London Breed announced the first two confirmed cases of the virus in the city limits, and discussed the fate of the Grand Princess cruise ship, which still may end up docking here.
SF Politics Richards Formally Resigns From Planning Commission As He Pursues Lawsuit Against Another City Department Planning commissioner Dennis Richards has, following a leave of absence from his post, just submitted his letter of resignation from the commission.
SF News After 38 Dry Days, Rain On the Way to the Bay Area Saturday Morning Some rain is headed our way, finally, in the early hours of Saturday, ending a record-setting dry spell.
SF News Cruise Ship With Possible Coronavirus Cases Being Held Offshore The Grand Princess, the Princess Cruises ship that made a roundtrip from San Francisco to Mexico in mid-February and returned with at least two passengers sick with the coronavirus, is currently being held off the California coast as testing of 21 passengers showing symptoms takes place.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: Warren Bows Out Two more tech conferences scheduled at the Moscone Center have canceled, Sonoma County is trying to locate 100 people possibly exposed to the coronavirus, and Starbucks won't refill your personal mugs anymore, for now.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Golden State Killer May Plead Guilty Elizabeth Warren is said to be weighing her options about continuing her candidacy for president, Gov. Newsom has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus, and Olivier Adella (the accused accomplice in the Keith Green murder) may get deported.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Gott's Roadside Burgers Unveils New Chase Center Location We have new details about an upcoming food addition to Thrive City, in the plaza outside the Chase Center, and it's Gott's Roadside.
SF News Rundown Potrero Hill Shack (and Its Land) Sells For $1.975M Some land on Potrero Hill with an uninhabitable shack on it has just sold for well under its initial asking price of $2.5 million.
SF News Tourists Keep Coming to SF Despite Many Stories About the City Going to Hell Despite reams of articles declaring the death of San Francisco amid sky-high rents, economic inequality, homelessness and open-air drug use, the city's tourism numbers were actually up in 2019.
SF Politics The Castro Voted For Warren, Much Of SF Went For Bernie Preliminary results are in from Tuesday's primary election in San Francisco, and while Bernie Sanders won a plurality with 39,571 votes (32.72%), Elizabeth Warren did quite well here with about as many votes as Joe Biden.
SF News First CA Coronavirus Death Linked To Roundtrip Cruise From SF to Mexico; Ship Returns Here Thursday The first death from covid-19 in the state of California happened in Placer County as we learned Wednesday morning, and now it's being reported that the man who died was on the same cruise to Mexico as the Sonoma County case reported Monday.
