SF-based healthcare startup One Medical is the latest organization being called out for unethical practices in the distribution of still very limited supplies of COVID-19 vaccine — allegedly including giving vaccine shots to friends and family of company leadership, and patients in their 20s.
While vaccine supplies remain inconsistent and insufficient, San Francisco officially moved into Phase 1B of vaccine eligibility on Wednesday, allowing grocery store and food service workers to be next in line alongside educators, childcare workers, and emergency services personnel.
Vaccine access codes for underserved populations are being shared by the privileged by text, a coyote in Lamorinda has attacked a fifth person, and two SF supervisors want to look into a revenue-sharing deal involving that Ferris wheel and the nonprofit Parks Alliance.
Four thieves reportedly stole a 60-year-old man's electric wheelchair in SoMa last week and made him crawl home, a Peninsula woman reported missing yesterday was found dead in the Grand Canyon today, and Alameda County's Deputy DA is running for the DA's seat.
The world’s no-longer-richest man was apparently bluffing when he threatened to move his East Bay Tesla plant out-of-state, as the plant has just submitted permit requests to expand.
The SoMa West Skatepark on Duboce Avenue was the site of a homicide Monday evening, following an altercation between two young men.
The Castro is hardly the only neighborhood dealing with rampant crime in recent months, but merchants in the neighborhood hope the city will reimburse them for what has largely been out-of-pocket expenses incurred because of petty vandalism and theft.
Even though San Francisco's COVID case numbers have looked about as good as those in neighboring counties San Mateo and Marin, the latter two have advanced to the "Red" tier for reopening as of Tuesday afternoon, while SF is left behind with the majority of California counties in the "Purple" tier.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet laureate of San Francisco and one of the last surviving figures Beat Generation, has died just shy of his 102nd birthday. His son Lorenzo Ferlinghetti confirmed his passing, saying that he died at his home in North Beach on Monday evening.
We can now mark the one-year anniversary of the Grand Princess cruise ship COVID outbreak and the ensuing, weeks-long, nationally televised drama that was a precursor to the global pandemic. Two surviving elderly passengers say they have two more cruises planned after their vaccines.
Volunteers are going door to door to get soon-to-be eligible people to sign up for vaccines in the Mission District, gyms and restaurants in at least three Bay Area counties are readying to potentially reopen indoor spaces, and many parts of the Bay Area will be windy today and tomorrow.
Santa Clara County is going to start allowing more recreational outdoor stuff, a Sunday night drive-by shooting in the Mission injured one man, and Dead Kennedys frontman and SF resident Jello Biafra has written a Rush Limbaugh eulogy song.
When it rains it pours sometimes, and now a popular cocktail spot near Union Square has been forced to close again not by the pandemic, but because of a recent electrical fire.
Gusty winds and dangerous marine conditions are being predicted starting early Tuesday in the Bay Area, with 55-mph gusts at some higher elevations and a gale warning at the coast. But otherwise we have a couple of days of warm sunshine ahead.
Two recent studies based on COVID testing in San Francisco's Mission District offer some insight into the so-called California variant of the coronavirus, which appears to be becoming more prevalent locally with each week.
It’s only Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays right now, but you can now ‘dive’ back in to the special magic of an El Rio cocktail paired with their new food menu.
After months of criticism from San Francisco politicians, parents of children in the school district, and Fox News, the San Francisco Board of Education has relented in its push to rename 44 schools for reasons of historical racism associated with their namesakes.
Save the Redwoods League, the San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to conserving redwood forests, has secured nonpossessory rights to nearly 15,000 acres of property at Mailliard Ranch, about 80 miles outside of Mendocino.
The mass-vaccination site at the Moscone Center won't reopen until Thursday, Contra Costa County is ahead of the rest of the Bay Area in vaccinating residents, and the Supreme Court ruled that Trump has to hand over his taxes.
Unless you've been living under a rock — or practicing a digital detox — odds are you've heard about the SF Victorian house slated to move this weekend. Well, it has, in fact, now been relocated to its new foundation. And the pictures and videos of its journey are wild.
The wholesale retail company announced Saturday that Costco Pharmacy branches will start offering COVID-19 vaccines (using primarily Moderna units) for qualified recipients. Currently, the Novato Costco location is the only regional store actively enrolled in the program.
It could take six years for business to return to pre-pandemic levels at SFO, volunteers are handing out air horns to Chinatown business owners, and a website called "Hark Town Rescure" — yes, they really did misspell "rescue" — is scamming people with adoption fees for non-existent dogs.
In a news release from the Office of the Mayor Friday, Breed announced the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) will offer free roundtrip transportation for people traveling to and from their COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting this coming Tuesday.
SF teenager Katlin Gallaread left her home between 8 p.m. Tuesday, February 16, and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 17, without notifying her family. Gallaread is still unaccounted for after four or five days since she left her Laguna Heights residence, according to SF police.
Pfizer now says its COVID-19 vaccine can be stored inside regular lab freezers, the controversial Calvary Chapel in San Jose apparently received $340K in PPP funds, and a geophysicist found that about 3.5 trillion pounds of urban development are pushing the Earth’s surface down in the Bay Area.
