Carmen Chu is San Francisco's new City Administrator, wind blew a big rig into a jackknife on the Bay Bridge, and restaurant workers will be prioritized for vaccines under the state's new plans.
The extreme weather this week is forcing SF's newly set-up mass-vaccination site to close til Friday, a gay Black firefighter is suing the SFFD for discrimination, and Marin conservatives rally in support of the MyPillow guy.
For the past six weeks, a SoMa queer bar that's better known for raunchy theme nights and its storied past in the leather community temporarily turned into a food pantry serving LGBTQ seniors and a group of unemployed nightlife workers around the city who found themselves running out of money.
Nearly 200 Postmates employees got pink slips Monday in the wake of being acquired by Uber, but top Postmates executives will get “multimillion dollar exit packages.”
In yet another story of a conspiracy-addled right-wing Trump fanboy unraveling in the waning days before the inauguration and allegedly turning to criminal threats and other craziness, we bring you the case of 35-year-old Bay Point resident Robert Lemke.
Upper Market Gallery has opened virtually, with a real grand opening still in the works, and with a view toward tearing down barriers in the local art world creating new spaces that invite conversation and community.
It doesn't seem as though the term "atmospheric river" has been in common use for more than a decade or so by TV weather people. But lately it comes up nearly every winter in California.
A state auditor's report released Monday suggests that not only did the California Employment Development Department (EDD) mishandle hundreds of thousands of claims and leave legitimate unemployed claimants going hungry last year, but that possibly $30 billion was paid out to fraudsters.
Twitter has permanently banned MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for "repeated violations," the I-5 is shut down at the Grapevine due to heavy snow, and Rep. Barbara Lee is the new chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
Twitter is going the Wikipedia route with a new fact-checking program, California's new My Turn vaccine app was developed by Salesforce, and outdoor dining resumed without hesitation at some Bay Area restaurants today.
The nutty archbishop rises again in opposition to COVID-19 precautions, this time holding mass indoors for hundreds of congregants, and saying some combination of Proud Boys and Antifa forced him to do so.
The right-wing news network’s outrage that “Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill” for shelter-in-place hotel rooms fails to acknowledge that Trump forced taxpayers to foot the same bill.
A research team at UCSF has landed on a potential game-changing treatment for COVID-19, though it is a cancer drug made by a Spanish firm that is not yet approved for any uses in the United States.
The next round of rain heading toward the Bay this week will be the heaviest we've seen in a while. And in addition to warnings of high winds coming with the next band of storms, areas that saw significant burning during last year's wildfires are facing the threat of landslides.
Outdoor dining can resume in San Francisco starting Thursday, now that COVID case numbers are decreasing the state has lifted the regional stay-at-home orders that began over a month ago.
As the Trumpists continue their wails of false fury about an election that they lost, a local battle that epitomizes the idiocy of politicizing the pandemic and denying basic science rages on just south of San Francisco.
Governor Gavin Newsom has lifted the remaining regional stay-at-home orders across California, returning to the county-by-county, color-coded system for reopening, and San Francisco will be allowing outdoor dining to resume in short order.
Bay Area teachers remain in a vaccine limbo, three people were wounded in a shooting outside a Burlingame hotel, and Sacramento is getting more aggressive with building housing than San Francisco.
Golden State Warriors’ Stephen Curry made history Saturday night, splashing in his 2,561st career 3-pointer early in the second half of a 127-108 loss to the Utah Jazz.
Following the launch of San Francisco's first non-police crisis response team in November, another unit of health care clinicians and medical professionals are expected to start addressing mental health and addiction emergency calls in the city come February 1.
With the Bay Area's ICU capacity now over 23% — a massive improvement from the last reported ICU availability rate of just 6.5% — the region now falls under the state's criteria for leaving its current stay-at-home order.
A UCSF study proved essential workers in the food and transportation industries are among the "riskiest jobs" in the pandemic, the body of an unnamed woman washed ashore at Tunitas Creek Beach Saturday morning, and a largely mask-less anti-abortion rally was held in downtown SF yesterday.
We’ve all been bemoaning how sluggish SF and the state have been at administering vaccines. Though usage rates are rising, those upticks aren't enough to stop Alabama from leapfrogging over CA — making us now dead last in the country for the percentage of supplied shots being used.
SF restaurants continue to be targeted by vandals, SFMTA is considering reopening Twin Peaks to personal cars, and six residents at Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco have lost their lives as a result of the most recent state-wide COVID-19 surge.
Larry King — the broadcasting giant whose interviews with world leaders, global popstars, and Hollywood staples captivated audiences from around the globe — died Saturday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement from Ora Media; he was 87 years old.
