Federal agents busted a family drug ring selling in the Tenderloin, a two-alarm fire displaced nine people in West Oakland, and Santa Clara County Health Officer Dr. Sara Cody got choked up while delivering her latest update on the pandemic.
Kai is a mother of two living in Oakland who's spent the pandemic volunteering at an organization that gives diapers to mothers in need. Now she's the latest recipient of "A Gift of Joy" from Steph and Ayesha Curry and Rakuten.
San Francisco will continue ushering people off the streets and into shelter-in-place hotel rooms for at least two months, after the Board of Supervisors unanimously passed an extension of a program that would have expired in just two more weeks.
The end of 2020 is arriving with a slew of legal headaches for Big Tech. And a week after we learned of twin antitrust lawsuits against Facebook being brought by state attorneys general and the FTC in tandem, we learn that a group of states is also filing suit against Google.
As predicted, just over a week after San Francisco and four other Bay Area counties voluntarily locked things down again amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, the region has hit the state's threshold for the stay-at-home order.
Crime was expected to go down with shelter-in-place orders back at the beginning of the pandemic, and for a short time, it did. But in San Francisco, the nature of the crimes being committed most often may have shifted, but there's still plenty of bad stuff going on all over town.
In another revelation from recently released data on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) from the Small Business Administration, the French Laundry received $2.4 million in two separate loans last spring, ostensibly to retain over 160 employees.
Two days after the DA filed charges against an officer for an October 2019 baton beating of a domestic violence suspect, the SFPD has released audio from the 911 call that led to the officers' arrival at the scene, as well as body-worn camera footage from the incident.
A Canadian Navy sailor is presumed dead after falling overboard near San Francisco, the Central Subway project is now estimated to be 15% over budget, and rain is on the way to the Bay Area today.
A medical emergency at Civic Center caused BART delays this afternoon, California is now running out of body bags as COVID-19 deaths soar, and the smaller sibling of the Original Joe's restaurants, Little Original Joe's, is now open for business in West Portal.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health is changing the way appointments are made at its two free COVID testing sites on the Embarcadero and at the Alemany farmers' market site, in an effort to make it less convenient for people who are at the lowest risk.
Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre delivery warehouse facility in San Francisco.
"There’s been growing public outrage that this important public health institution was named and the naming rights were sold to the highest bidder and to somebody as controversial as Mr. Zuckerberg and Facebook," says Sup. Gordon Mar.
Everybody figured 38-year-old former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg would get a job in a theoretical Biden administration, and of course he has.
After receiving 2,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, SF General became the first hospital in the city to begin administering it Tuesday morning, with one critical-care doctor who has treated the most severely ill COVID patients being the first to receive a dose.
The attorney representing a San Francisco Police officer whom District Attorney Chesa Boudin charged with assault and battery on Monday has shot back with a statement saying her client acted "lawfully" in the 2019 incident in question.
A Santa Rita Jail inmate stole a golf cart on his way out of jail to drive to BART, one SF supervisor thinks the Board's holiday recess is "inappropriate" this year, and the Morgan Hill area was shaken by a pair of small earthquakes around 7:15 a.m.
An inspiring defensive outing was not enough to outweigh costly turnovers and average quarterback play, as the Niners lose more key players to injury in a 23-15 loss to the Washington Football Team.
DA Chesa Boudin has charged the SFPD officer who allegedly beat a Black man near Fisherman's Wharf last fall, the legal battle between Virgin Hotels and the owner of the hotel rages on, and a man on a scooter was shot while riding through SoMa.
By spring 2021, with no signs that daily life will have returned to normal yet amid an ongoing pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom could be among multiple governors facing recall efforts around the country.
Sup. Hillary Ronen popped up on “60 Minutes” Sunday night to proclaim “We are getting screwed” over Sutter Health’s alleged monopoly and price-gouging practices.
"It’s a beautiful day outside and what are we doing, covering up with our masks," he shouts. "We've got to stand up for ourselves!"
The monotonous parade of numbers can be numbing, but the Bay Area and SF have seen some staggering COVID case metrics in the first two weeks of December that foretell a grim hospital picture before Christmas. And the curve is not flattening yet.
The longtime operators of the iconic Cliff House have made a dramatic announcement to the press that the restaurant is closing "permanently" — however it seems more likely that there will be a changing of the guard with the restaurant's management once it manages to be revived, post-pandemic.
Bay Area hospitals are prepping to receive vaccine doses today, protesters gathered outside London Breed's apartment Sunday chanting "People need to eat!", and those new BART stations in the South Bay are basically sitting empty and costing a lot to operate.
