The report that the CDC released late last week pertaining to a May COVID outbreak at a Marin County school continues to have a ripple effect nationwide — showing how classrooms, even with windows open and kids masked, can be vulnerable to the Delta variant.
Tens of thousands of football fans have crowded into Levi's Stadium in recent weeks for the first couple 49ers preseason games with no vaccine mandate, but BottleRock will be the region's first test of a non-seated, large-scale outdoor event.
The Caldor Fire continued its steady advance toward the Tahoe Basin on Monday amid a mass evacuation of South Lake Tahoe. But so far most of the flames have been held back by the granite outcroppings around Lower Echo Lake and Lake Aloha.
A cargo ship is quarantining in San Francisco Bay with a dozen COVID-positive crew members onboard, and six others who were feeling ill have been taken to San Francisco hospitals for medical treatment.
A man was injured in a roll-over dune buggy incident at the "renegade" Burning Man that began Sunday, some evacuation warnings and orders have been lifted in the Dixie Fire, and demand for monoclonal antibody treatments for COVID are surging in the Bay Area.
Some Democratic strategists are quietly saying we should vote for Faulconer on the recall ballot, Mendocino County hospitals are filling up with COVID patients, and a 43-year-old SF man has been arrested in a Friday assault on an Asian woman in Chinatown.
Looks like SF voters will see a recall election for three school board members, as that effort claims they have well exceeded the number of signatures required to trigger an election.
The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.
While beloved Castro restaurant Frances still has not announced its official reopening date, chef Melissa Perello over the weekend announced a series of prix-fixe dinners at the restaurant with no set menu that she will be curating and cooking herself.
Amid a nationwide run on at-home COVID tests and a shortage stemming from the tests' producers scaling back production a few months ago, CVS pharmacies are putting a limit on the number of test boxes customers can purchase at a time, online or in person.
Parts of South Lake Tahoe are now under evacuation orders after spending the weekend under evacuation warnings, and the Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort remains a staging area for the firefighting effort.
Senator Bernie Sanders is the latest high-profile Washington figure to speak out in support of Governor Gavin Newsom and against the recall in a new TV spot, and he tells Democrat voters, "Don't let it happen."
The high-profile criminal trial begins this week of disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes. While opening arguments in the San Jose courtroom won't begin until after Labor Day, jury selection begins on Tuesday, August 31.
South Lake Tahoe remains under an evacuation warning after the Caldor Fire "let loose" on Sunday, two surfers and a bystander saved a drowning man at Ocean Beach, and an elite team of urban rescue firefighters just left Oakland to aid in the Louisiana hurricane recovery effort.
With wildfire smoke still filling the Bay Area skies, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) has extended the Spare the Air Alert through today, which was originally set to expire Saturday.
Hurricane Ida has made landfall off the coast of Louisiana as a Category 4 storm, a deadly car crash Friday killed one Livermore high schooler and left another five injured, and pictures arrive of a desolate South Lake Tahoe following a new evacuation warning.
This afternoon, it reached 84 degrees Fahrenheit in San Francisco — making Saturday the city’s single-hottest day recorded this year, thus far.
On August 17, a fortysomething man was attacked and shot near the 800 block of Larkin Street in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. Over a week later, the body has been officially identified as one Theodore Tolliver.
There's an ongoing donation drive for Afghan refugees in the East Bay, Contra Costa County employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by October 4 (or face possible termination), and the air around the Bay Area continues hazing with dangerous levels of wildfire smoke pollutants.
A small team at SF's I.T. Bookman Community Center helped 1,500 individuals get to vaccine appointments, Dog Eared Books in the Castro will soon reopen as a different bookshop called Fabulosa Books, and there’s a brand-new campground on the SF Bay you can pitch a tent at now.
The nation’s “oldest continuously running Italian heritage parade” returns October 10, the first major parade to float the idea since COVID hit.
Oakland's longest running brewery — and one of its most interesting and innovative — Ale Industries has done a new marketing collaboration with the East Bay SPCA that is all but guaranteed to sell a lot of beer and get some cats and pups adopted.
Animal Care & Control successfully rescued a coyote pup who fell into the ice cold water of the bay, and the little nipper received medical treatment and has returned to the wild.
Some physical retribution for a smash-and-grab auto burglar was caught on surveillance video in broad, crowded daylight along a San Francisco street, after the burglary victim grabbed the culprit and proceeded to give him a beating.
Oasis owner D’Arcy Drollinger tells us about ‘Shit and Champagne,’ her cult-hit play-turned-movie with a Castro Theatre premiere Saturday, and new streaming deals with Amazon Prime and AppleTV.
