Meet Russ, the pit bull-terrier mix who somehow fended for himself in South Lake Tahoe for several months after being separated from his family in the Caldor fire, but was found alive and is now reunited with his humans.
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San Francisco COVID-19 testing sites are cutting back their hours at the worst possible time, as the Department of Public Health announces reduced hours at four of the city's largest mass-testing sites.
While UCSF Department of Medicine Chair Dr. Bob Wachter has mostly been a sunny and optimistic voice through the pandemic, he sounds a bit shaken by a case of Omicron that hit close to home: his 28-year-old son.
Both Pfizer and Moderna say they're working on Omicron-specific vaccines, mobile game maker Zynga has been acquired by a New York company, and Klay Thompson made a triumphant return to the court last night — and Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider was in the stands.
Newsom on Saturday unveiled the 2022 to 2023 budget proposal, which includes $2.7B in COVID-19-related funding, a billion dollars more than last year when $1.7B was allotted for pandemic response and relief; a good amount of the proposed funds will go toward ramping up and streamlining testing.
Mayor Breed shared on Twitter Friday that hundreds of City workers were either sick with COVID-19 or are isolating from a potential exposure—a tweet followed a day later by the SF Department of Emergency Management urging residents to only call 911 "for life-threatening medical emergencies.”
State officials released reports December 2021 confirming that California’s population has been declining over the past year for the second time ever since it became a state in 1850. Nine of the
A multi-car accident caused massive delays along I-80 in San Pablo this morning, Klay Thompson will make his return to the Warriors inside the Chase Center Sunday night, and it looks like next week will be rain-free.
Supplemental doses of COVID-19 vaccines — a.k.a. "booster shots" — slowly lose their efficacy over time. But, instead of just getting another jab of the same inoculation, medical professionals are suggesting newer, more variant-specific COVID-19 vaccines should be developed first.
Many outdoor dining areas in downtown Pleasanton were removed Friday for street cleaning purposes, Newsom activated the state's National Guard to support COVID-19 testing capacities, and it's official: Oakland's own Amy Schneider has become the first woman to win more than $1M on "Jeopardy!."
Oakland’s beloved Luka’s Taproom is set to close on January 29 due to failed lease negotiations, booster shot eligibility has been expanded to cover kids between 12 to 15 years old in Solano County, and the SF Ballet's 89th repertory season gala has been postponed.
An SF Johnny Cash concert from 1968, recorded just one week before the release of his landmark Folsom Prison album, has been digitally restored and released online by the son of famed Grateful Dead roadie “Bear” Stanley.
One would assume that the most vocal of the neighbors who objected to the Embarcadero Navigation Center knew that an extension was on the table for public comment. But apparently the two-year extension went through with very little opposition.
A restaurant space on Fillmore Street that has seen a fair bit of turnover in the last few years is coming alive again soon as the fourth Bay Area location of Scott's Chowder House.
After 28-year-old Alameda County Sheriff's deputy-in-training David Nguyen was fatally shot near the Bay Bridge Tuesday, that county’s sheriff’s association is now offering a $10,000 reward for any information that leads to an arrest.
File under: We should have seen this coming. With at-home test kits scarce, appointments impossible to find, and lines snaking around blocks at city-authorized walk-up sites, some enterprising but shady characters have launched pop-up COVID testing sites around town that are not at all legit.
There are no good guys, and certainly no women at all, in the latest Silicon Valley high school drama that pits Jack Dorsey and the bigwigs at Andreessen Horowitz arguing over the true meaning of crypto.
A pair of thieves who were seen stealing tools out of the back of a construction worker's pickup truck in San Francisco's Golden Gate Heights neighborhood fired a parting gunshot as they fled the area, after a neighbor tried to get video of their license plate.
California's booster rate is 38% and even far lower in some counties, state officials are trying to keep the "worried well" who have COVID from arriving at hospital ERs, and 23andMe just launched its own clinical trial of a cancer drug.
SFUSD was drastically understaffed today amidst a ‘sickout,’ turns out someone tried to pipe-bomb Kamala Harris last January 6, and an obscure environmental measure might automatically render part of the Great Highway car-free permanently.
The feds say that far-right “Boogaloo” militia types killed federal officer David Patrick Underwood, while trying to pose as Antifa. Underwood’s sister says Facebook gave them the tools to do it, and is suing the company.
An emergency medicine specialist at UCSF is one of many experts saying that after this surge abates, we've got to start living with this virus as like a weirder common cold.
While Pelosi gets dragged for bringing Dick Cheney and the ‘Hamilton’ cast for a Jan. 6 remembrance, new evidence emerges that Kimberly Guilfoyle says she raised $3 million to finance the Trump rally that day, and angled to get Alex Jones and Steve Bannon speaking slots.
We knew it was coming, and now it is here. San Francisco's long-serving former public works chief, Mohammed Nuru, has officially entered his guilty plea in federal court, with sentencing to follow in May.
Winter in San Francisco is all about warming drinks, rich ingredients, and red-wine meals — and ordering the stew that might also be nice on a chilly summer night, but is actually best enjoyed when it's raining outside.
