You'll be able to take your mask off in certain indoor settings in the city of San Francisco starting next week, but across the Bay Area, mask orders will likely stay in place for most public settings through the rest of the year.
In the counties in California where most people voted for Trump and where they still believe COVID wasn't a big enough deal to shut down businesses, the Delta surge rages on — and it's a starkly different picture in these counties in terms of deaths and hospitalizations.
A container ship, the Rotterdam Express, has come under suspicion as a possible culprit in the ruptured pipeline that leaked as much as 126,000 gallons of crude oil into the Pacific near Huntington Beach last week. And on Wednesday, investigators boarded the ship in Oakland, where it is now docked.
An attempted murder charge will be escalated to murder in San Mateo County in the case of a woman who was repeatedly struck and run over in a Millbrae parking lot on September 20, after the victim succumbed to her injuries Wednesday morning.
The SFMTA is warning of possible service cuts in the coming weeks due to the still large number of transit operators who have not reported being vaccinated — with the city's deadline for all city employees to be fully vaccinated approaching on November 1.
A new report suggests the Millennium Tower fix continued despite warnings about the building sinking faster, infamous Antioch dive ABC Rendezvous Bar went up in flames this morning, and life expectancy for U.S. men has dropped by two years due to COVID.
40-year-old leather bar The Eagle has been granted historic landmark status, a juror has been dismissed in the Elizabeth Holmes trial over religious objections to imprisonment, and the Ninth Circuit has upheld the freelancer law AB5.
SF-based gaming site Twitch pretty much had the keys to their kingdom snatched and posted on 4Chan, and since it’s owned by Amazon… is anything safe anymore?
A 34-foot fishing boat sank into San Francisco Bay Wednesday morning, prompting a Coast Guard response and an effort to contain the possibly hundreds of gallons of fuel that was in the boat's tank.
You may want to avoid getting in a car if at all possible in San Francisco this weekend — and you'll definitely want to avoid the Marina and downtown at all costs unless you yourself are going to a Giants game.
Another longtime face in Bay Area news media is leaving the anchor desk, and it's veteran KPIX anchor Ken Bastida. Bastida started at the station in 1990, and he's hanging up the suit and tie and retiring as of the end of October.
Haven't you felt it? A cold front is moving in over the Bay Area that has chilled things significantly over the past 36 hours, and its bringing with it overnight lows in the chilly lower 50s in San Francisco.
In response to a string of very bad headlines and a catastrophic outage of all of the company's services this week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg publicly posted a message on Tuesday that he says he sent to all of his employees, reassuring them that Facebook is not evil.
It must be a slow news week because dozens of news sites — including, ahem, Fox News and TMZ — clamored to publish a press release today from a group of internet sleuths claiming to have "solved" the 53-year-old mystery of the Zodiac Killer.
Bay Area health officers will be announcing a mask mandate update on Thursday, 6,000 PG&E customers lost power in Marin County this morning, and SF Unified is facing state oversight due to a $116 million budget shortfall.
Santa Clara County is giving out $76 million in pandemic "hero pay" to its employees, Kaiser is suspending 2,200 workers for not being vaccinated, and Giants playoff tickets are selling fast.
Pastry chef Bianca Montijo, who's spent the last year and change making fancy confections and desserts for special events at the Chase Center and the VIP viewing suites, is the force behind a new dessert bar that will be open to the public this fall as the Chase Center reopens for real.
The vintage 1907 throwback bar will be pouring their famed Barkeep’s Whimsy again soon, though an initially reported reopening date of October 19 may no longer be operable.
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We're getting back near the late-pandemic territory we were in back in June, though San Francisco isn't quite there yet — with hospitalizations coming down but still well above where they were in mid-June and early July.
The six-hour outage on Monday that brought down Facebook's entire network of products — including Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus — was caused by a router issue, or something, and both the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg say they're very sorry you had to stop scrolling for an afternoon.
Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins' was again complaining to reporters Monday night about the vaccine mandate that forced his hand last week into getting a shot he didn't want. And he whined on expressing unfounded fears of "cancerous cells."
A Black former Tesla employee who claimed he was harassed with racial epithets and demeaning attacks during his time there five years ago was awarded a $136.9 million judgement on Monday by a federal jury.
A shooting outside the Whole Foods at Lake Merritt led to the store being evacuated Monday night, SF General says 115 employees are currently off the schedule due to vaccine status, and Monday's winning $700M Powerball ticket was sold in California.
There was much joking and foolery on Twitter today about the mass outage at Facebook, Oakland's deadliest month to date was September we 17 homicides, and a ship's anchor may be to blame for that oil spill in SoCal.
