A law allowing employees up to 80 hours of paid leave for COVID-19 expired at the end of September, but with unprecedented numbers out sick, California lawmakers may bring it back.
The two long-awaited new park areas being constructed atop the Presidio Parkway tunnels, near the Golden Gate Bridge, are set to open to the public this spring, and we have a preview.
Just two weeks after postponing Sketchfest 2022 indefinitely, the two-week comedy festival announced Friday morning that they’re not trying this again until next year, and waiting it out for 2023.
The teachers' union got what they wanted and SF schools will stay open, Newsom commuted the sentence of a Pulitzer-nominated podcaster at San Quentin, and Sephora just inked a big office lease in downtown SF.
The SF Symphony canceled a Thursday performance due to COVID in the orchestra, a sewage test in the South Bay suggests the Omicron wave has crested, and Gavin Newsom declined to parole Sirhan Sirhan.
The mayor defended her Tenderloin emergency plan on a popular national podcast, but her joke that she "would remove the Board of Supervisors" and critique that they’re mostly white will surely stoke hostilities.
Kicking off the new year at the Golden Gate Theatre is the delayed arrival of The Band's Visit, the touring production of the 2018 Tony Award winner for Best Musical as well as three top acting prizes and a slew of others.
A small but enticingly affordable piece of land over on Telegraph Hill just hit the market for the fifth time in 15 years, with the biggest question being whether it will ever be useful to anyone, for anything.
The odd-numbered-year “homeless census” did not happen at all in 2021, and its delayed return has been pushed out a month in pretty much every Bay Area county, with SF likely making that call Friday.
A proposal to bring three attractions in Golden Gate Park under the same umbrella and nonprofit management is moving forward with help from SF Mayor London Breed — and it would mean that SF residents could visit all three free of charge.
The police union and SFPD Chief Bill Scott are up in arms that charges were dropped in an alleged stabbing of an officer, but the suspect certainly took more of the beating, and details may have been too flimsy for a guilty verdict.
San Francisco’s housing market has seen some unprecedented sales over the past year.
Things may have peaked, but San Francisco's daily average case rate per 100,000 residents has risen above that of Santa Clara and Alameda counties — and above any other in Northern California — for the first time in the pandemic.
Police were called to the area of Congdon Street and Alemany Boulevard around 6:50 a.m. Thursday after a collision created major congestion in San Francisco. The incident took place near 280
Three 19-year-old suspects observed breaking into cars by plainclothes SFPD officers were arrested last week, BART returns to late-night service on Sundays in Feb., and Bob Saget's death could have been COVID-related.
San Francisco sees its second homicide of the year in Crocker-Amazon, an Oakland restaurant owner has donated 10,000 KN95 masks to local schools, and Russian River Brewing is putting off the release of its uber-popular Pliny the Younger due to the county's recent ban on large gatherings.
Four-time all-star and two-time world champ Hunter Pence came out of right field to help with a community trash pick, for a group that does this three or four times a week.
A one-block street in SF's Mission District, just two blocks away from Dolores Park and near the location where two gay men donned nun's habits in the late 1970s and birthed a drag-activist movement and culture, is set to be renamed in honor of a founder of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
Barbecue superstar chef Matt Horn adds a fried chicken-focused addition to his emerging Oakland comfort food kingdom, with Friday’s opening of Kowbird at the former Pretty Lady diner space.
Last week’s SF Unified and Oakland Unified School District sickouts were the shape of things to come at Bay Area schools, as Oakland teachers are pulling another one, as are many other East Bay schools.
Omicron is everywhere, and a local infectious disease expert is advising all of us to assume we have COVID if we have had a known exposure, or been anywhere in public really — and especially if we have any of an array of symptoms.
A somewhat low vaccination rate among prison guards has produced a predictable result, as San Quentin State Prison, and all California state prisons, are in full lockdown.
Tiffany Li, the wealthy daughter of a Chinese developer who prosecutors say got away with the 2016 murder of the father of her two children, has agreed to settle a civil case brought by the victim's mother rather than go to trial this month.
Sentencing for Elizabeth Holmes delayed until September pending Sunny Balwani's trial, recent storms flushed a lot of microplastics into the Bay, and China is suspending some flights into the country from SFO.
The Millennium Tower is apparently tilting another three inches every year, Recology might owe you more Nuru bribe refund money, and Julia Child’s favorite SF Vietnamese restaurant Tú Lan has received a Legacy Business designation.
