As expected, three more Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, advanced to the "Orange" tier in California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy rating system on Tuesday as new COVID cases reach levels not seen since October.
In addition to their Netflix and Spotify money, Harry and Meghan will have another income source in the form of a job that the self-exiled Duke of Sussex has just taken with the San Francisco-based startup BetterUp.
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Three years after a former patient at the Veterans Home of California in Yountville shot and killed three women, the complex is on lockdown following reports of an armed woman on the campus.
Treasure Island is getting a vaccination site, three Antioch men have been charged in a Feb. 23 laundromat assault on an Asian man in SF, and bars in three counties are getting ready to open outdoors this week without mandatory food.
State and city leaders gathered for a rally in Chinatown to condemn violence against the Asian community, SF's lawsuit against its school district moves forward, and the UK's Ambassador Theatre Group just bought the Golden Gate and Orpheum theaters.
Stanford eliminated its wrestling program in July, but wrestlers finished out their season. Now one of them, Shane Griffith, just won the national championship.
It's nearly Easter, and once again the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence will be putting up a blasphemous display of thirst traps dressed up as Our Holy Savior for people to vote on.
After getting called out for racist “Chinese” virus language on their website, the Recall Gavin Newsom effort has scrubbed the offending words — and it’s not the first time, either.
Oh this should be fun and embarrassing. Serial shyster Donald Trump, who used to hold some kind of government job, is reportedly planning to launch his own social media platform now that he's been banned from Twitter and Facebook.
Three people, including a 12-year-old boy, were left injured over the weekend in two separate shootings.
On Monday, Contra Costa County expanded its COVID vaccine eligibility requirements to everyone age 50 and over, regardless of health conditions. It's the second Bay Area county to do so after Solano County made the same move last week.
In a sweet freebie to help encourage doughnut lovers to go get vaccinated, Krispy Kreme is offering a free doughnut if you walk in and show your vaccination card. But it's not just the one doughnut the one time.
An SF woman was involved in a wild chase in Santa Rosa on Sunday, a large crowd gathered in the Castro for a march in solidarity with the Asian community, and Mills College's president says that a reversal of its historic decision to stop granting degrees is highly unlikely.
Amid the controversy ginned up over SF School Board Vice President Alison Collins' 2016 social media comments — which evoke “racist, anti-Asian” beliefs — Mayor Breed and other elected officials have called for her immediate resignation.
A young pup was stolen by a not-all-too-good samaritan after he did a “welfare check” on an injured victim involved in last weekend's multi-car crash on the Bay Bridge — but CHP has now retrieved the dog, returning it to its rightful owner.
A disabled Asian man in Redwood City discovered someone had set his car on fire Saturday morning, JFK Drive was alive with demonstrators calling for the street to remain car-free, and hundreds rallied in SF and Oakland's Chinatowns yesterday to support Asian communities.
The site that once belonged to the much-loved Albany Bowl — which had housed the iconic business since 1949 — might become a multi-unit housing project; 21 of the apartments in the 207-unit proposal are expected to be affordably priced.
This week, Amazon announced the company will start testing its current fleet of cartoonish-looking EVs in San Francisco, adding to the growing number of clean-energy delivery cars and public transport vehicles driving on our streets.
SF police have identified James Francis Edwards as the suspect of a fatal shooting outside a food bank in the Mission circa 1990, Bay Area artists are set to give out some 20,000 artful masks to underserved communities, and a 7.0 earthquake struck Japan early Saturday.
A rally to advocate for a car-free JFK Drive will happen tomorrow, the Noe Art Mart continues this weekend (helping support queer artists), and a GoFundMe page created to cover the expenses of Xiao Zhen Xie — the 75-year-old who fought off her attacker with a wooden plank — has raised almost $740K.
As the vaccine rollout and the availability of appointments continues to be a source of frustration for some Bay Area residents, the governor on Friday indicated that he believes everyone in the state should be eligible to get a vaccine by late April.
A vacant NASA facility in Santa Clara County was on the list as a possible migrant children's shelter, but the feds removed it with little explanation.
We have word of two new spots coming from his Back of the House Restaurant Group: The Tailor's Son on upper Fillmore, and a second location of The Bird in Hayes Valley.
A minor traffic accident turned extremely violent on Thursday, with a rage-filled driver shooting and critically injuring one 25-year-old man as well as injuring the man's 12-year-old passenger.
SF-based startup uBiome, which got plenty of attention in the last decade for its at-home fecal testing kits and trendy focus on gut health, is now the focus of a federal complaint that accuses the founders of defrauding investors and health insurers to the tune of $60 million.
