Marin County restaurant owners are appealing to supervisors to reopen outdoor dining, a fire near the BART tracks briefly interrupted service near Richmond, and a local advocacy group is blasting the SFUSD for its project to rename multiple schools.
A mysterious half million bucks showed up in the bank account of the Recall Gavin Newsom effort, from an apparent shell company with a biblical name. Now we know the whole amount came from one single Orange County religious conservative.
A financial bind has the Art Institute considering selling off its prize mural for $50 million, and George Lucas is reportedly interested in buying.
Local playwright Lauren Gunderson has written a new one-man play about "virus hunter" Nathan Wolfe and his prognostications about the economic impact of a pandemic before this one began. And now it's set to premiere virtually via the Marin Theatre Company this month.
SF Health Director Dr. Grant Colfax cautioned that it will be at least another week or two before we get a better picture of the impact of gatherings and holiday travel over Christmas and New Year's.
The biennial "Point in Time Count" of the homeless, typically conducted in January of odd-numbered years in San Francisco, is likely to be canceled or postponed this year due to concerns about putting front-line census-takers and other at risk of contracted COVID-19.
The Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) announced Monday that the deadline has been extended for small businesses to apply for economic relief grants of up to $25,000.
Up in Mendocino County, there was a close call on Monday after an ultra-cold freezer storing hundreds of vaccine doses failed, and doctors went into emergency-distribution mode.
With familiar faces Harrison Barnes and Luke Walton lacing up across from the Warriors Monday night, the Dubs exploded to a 137-106 win over the Sacramento Kings and improved to 4-3 on the season, shooting 53.5% from three-point land and spreading the love for 41 assists.
Two rare Northern California tornadoes touched down on Monday, a pair of South Bay doctors pleaded guilty to healthcare fraud in a case involving a faux COVID test, and Napa County wants to turn its fairgrounds into a mass vaccination site.
A half-million-dollar donation to the Recall Newsom effort is the subject of a lawsuit, UCSF is planning to build over 1,200 units of housing in Parnassus Heights, and rents in SF ended the year down 27% from the year prior.
District Attorney Chesa Boudin formally filed multiple felony charges on Monday against the 45-year-old man accused in a hit-and-run collision last week in SoMa that killed two women.
A new law just took effect in California on January 1 that prohibits food delivery apps from listing restaurants among their offerings without expressly contracting with those restaurants first.
A smattering of Googlers, YouTubers and Waymo staff have formed the Alphabet Workers Union, in a move that could revolutionize the tech industry — or merely result in about 200 Google employees getting fired for vague “performance” reasons.
A nurse who posted photos of himself last May as a warning to others about how COVID-19 had ravaged his body over the course of six weeks in the hospital has attracted negative attention after apparently posting online about attending a gay circuit event in Mexico over the New Year's Eve holiday.
The suspect in the New Year's Eve hit-and-run collision in SF's SoMa neighborhood that left two women dead had allegedly stolen the car used in the incident two days earlier from a woman he met on a dating app.
A father drowned and his two children, ages four and seven, remain missing following a riptide incident on a Sonoma County beach on Sunday.
After getting smoked by the Blazers for 20 threes and a 21-point scorching in the first of two games at home Friday, the Golden State Warriors evened the series in their second attempt with an energetic defensive effort and career-best 62 points from Wardell Stephen Curry Sunday night.
Nancy Pelosi was narrowly reelected to be Speaker of the House, friends and family are in mourning for Hana Abe after her death in a hit-and-run collision in SoMa, and one of the emergency room workers has died amid a 44-person COVID outbreak at Kaiser San Jose.
The San Francisco 49ers dropped their finale to the Seattle Seahawks 26-23 to finish at 6-10, looking forward to returning home after five weeks in Arizona and a lengthy season full of fallen teammates.
San Francisco extended its stay-at-home order indefinitely right before the new year, citing a worrisome climb in hospitalization numbers around the Bay Area. Sunday, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) revealed the Bay Area’s current ICU capacity is now at 8.4%.
At least 43 staff members at the Kaiser Permanente San Jose Emergency Department have tested positive for COVID-19 within the past week. The unlikely culprit for the explosive outbreak? An inflatable Christmas costume.
Mitch McConnell’s Kentucky home was vandalized with graffiti Saturday, a "chain-wielding" robbery suspect was shot by Berkeley police at a Walgreens, and 45-year-old Troy McAlister, who fatally struck two pedestrians in a hit-and-run Thursday, had been arrested multiple times in recent months.
2020 was a collective dumpster fire of year — one trailed by the bitter ash from scorched COVID-19 hot spots. Though the Bay Area's nightlife venues continue to sit empty, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF) raised over $300K last year to help the workers who once filled those spaces.
Not even a full day after the famous Cliff House signage went down, the historic property — which existed as a San Francisco landmark for over 47 years — was defaced with large black graffiti letters sometime Thursday night.
