San Francisco's original stay-at-home order was lambasted by residents and some local government officials for being over-restrictive. Before the weekend, it was loosened slightly to allow for meeting one person outside of your immediate household — but only for outdoor activities.
The endangered coho salmon have been on a steady decline as urbanization wreaks havoc on their remaining natural habitat. But the recent demolition of an old dam and fish ladder on the former San Geronimo Valley golf course has freed up one of their important breeding passages.
An anonymous gun buyback event Saturday that was hosted by United Playaz — in partnership with SFPD and the Mayor’s Office of Violence Prevention Services — had received over 200 surrendered firearms by noon.
The Pfizer vaccine began shipping to distribution centers across the country Sunday morning, San Francisco's only Olive Garden location has permanently closed, and four people were injured Saturday afternoon in a Muni-involved accident.
All but one commercial Dungeness crab season has been postponed since 2015, with this year’s season stalled after whales were seen near the Farallon Islands — a popular crabbing area. Now that they're migrating elsewhere, the 2020 commercial Dungeness crab season is slated to start on December 23.
Friday night, the FDA greenlit the "emergency use" of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine — the first in the country to get this kind of authorization for battling the pandemic — and, simultaneously, setting up California to receive 327,600 units of it.
While five Bay Area counties got a head start with shutting down businesses and outdoor dining earlier this week, and Sonoma issued its order effective Saturday, the three remaining holdout counties in the Bay Area are likely get new shutdown orders from the governor next week.
Another free-testing drive finds that COVID-19 disproportionately affects SF’s Latinx communities, Credit Karma is moving its operations from SF to Oakland, and the Zodiac Killer's "340 Cipher" has been cracked by a team of code experts — 51 years after it was sent in a letter to the Chronicle.
It looks like Oracle is the next company to flee California amid the current mass tech exodus, rain is expected to drench much of the Bay Area this weekend, and the high-end Indian eatery August 1 Five is shuttering before the end of the month.
Both an 11-year-old and a 14-year-old were shot and killed at Searles Elementary School a year ago, but Alameda County authorities now think they’ve apprehended all the suspects.
It’s a prickly topic for any workplace, but Facebook staff will not be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine before returning to their pampered workplace.
Squad, an app that allows users to video-chat and screen-share with groups of friends in a more "fun" way than Zoom, has been acquired by Twitter, and the Squad app will have its sunset on Saturday, December 12.
The San Francisco Fire Department is doing something this year that it hasn't done since the late 1940s in having firehouses compete to see who creates the best holiday decoration display.
In an about-face from April and May, when San Franciscans seemed largely in agreement that lockdown orders were necessary — if economically painful — SF restaurant workers are planning an afternoon rally at City Hall over the latest shutdown.
Industry trade organizations are lining up to lobby the CDC and states to get their workers high up in the queue of Americans waiting to receive the coronavirus vaccine, and Uber is lining up too.
A 38-year-old Piedmont man has been arrested and charged in the homicide of a San Francisco man, following a fight between the two men that began on a Muni bus.
Sonoma County is locking back down and closing wineries and outdoor dining after tonight, rain is coming to the Bay Area Saturday and Sunday, and state officials say that the rich and famous won't be cutting the line for the COVID vaccine.
Healing Cuts in the Castro is moving to a new location, rents across San Francisco continue to plunge, and once-bustling neighborhoods (like Chinatown and SoMa) now sit uncomfortably quiet amid the current stay-at-home order.
On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based food delivery app offered its first IPO — which, in just a day's time, has made its three co-founders overnight billionaires.
Newsom’s PlumpJack Group got a plump $2.9 million in PPP loans for its high-end wineries and restaurants, which is eight times higher than what was originally reported.
The 87-year-old senator has visibly lost a step, but a new report features stories from (mostly anonymous) aides saying that her mental deterioration is a lot further along than we realize.
A contact-tracing "beacon" app that's been in development since the spring is now rolling out for all Californians, but what does it really do and will it really help anyone find out if they've been exposed to the coronavirus?
Even though it's been "canceled," it's always been kind of an unofficial event, and unofficially there may be drunken, masked Santas out there whether we like it or not — but a founder of the event says it's pointless when the bars are closed and we're in a pandemic so stay home!
The Bay Area saw a single-day jump of COVID hospitalizations of 6.1% on Tuesday, and San Francisco is seeing more seriously ill COVID patients in hospitals at one time than at any other time during this pandemic.
BART is hosting the final meeting of the year on Balboa Park Station redesign plans, UCSF is prepping to receive the first COVID-19 vaccine doses, and the man swept out to sea in Pacifica on Tuesday is presumed dead.
