Newsom says the state will get 642,000 more vaccine doses from Moderna in a few weeks, three South Bay hospitals are now out of ICU beds, and Napa and Sonoma wineries remain open for tastings.
In a clear escalation in the war Facebook faces over its dominance in the social media landscape, the Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 states' attorneys general are suing to break the company up.
Governor Gavin Newsom must have heard from a lot of people about the decision to include playgrounds among the things being closed under state stay-at-home orders. Because on Wednesday the state reversed itself.
Zoiks! The new Zoox self-driving taxicab from Amazon was spotted in SF this past weekend, more than a week before its scheduled public debut.
Anger, sadness, and lots of financial pain and resentment are going around in San Francisco and several neighboring counties after new health orders that took effect Sunday night.
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who is often credited with wielding influence over city government and development long after his tenure as mayor ended in the early 2000s, has weighed in on the latest corruption scandal at City Hall in a new interview.
A person was fatally struck by Caltrain in San Francisco Tuesday night, California set a new record for daily COVID cases with over 35,000, and it's IPO Day for DoorDash.
UC Berkeley is sending mixed message to students about the winter break, the SF Board of Supervisors is not banning smoking in apartment buildings after all, and the death of a man found in a burning home in Richmond is being treated as suspicious.
Tom BetGeorge, the lighting designer whose holiday light displays on his home in Tracy at Halloween and Christmas time have been the stuff of much local-news fodder the past few years, is back at it, but with new personal meaning to this year's work.
A new and embarrassing twist came in the City Hall scandal chapter involving former SF Public Utilities chief Harlan Kelly as prosecutors say that cocaine was found in the FBI's search of his home.
The alleged spy was an Eric Swalwell fundraiser and Ro Khanna volunteer, but some Midwestern mayors are likely more nervous because the FBI has footage of her having sex with them.
A man was reportedly swept out to sea Tuesday morning near the Pacifica Municipal Pier, and rescuers have been unable to find him.
One of the consistently intriguing figures in this pandemic has been Dr. Scott Morrow, the longtime health officer of San Mateo County, who has made a habit of telling it like it is when it comes to public health orders and not reverting to talking points or bureaucratic obfuscation.
With San Francisco "hosting" Buffalo in Arizona Monday night following new public health guidelines put in place by Santa Clara County, Josh Allen and the Bills dazzled the 49ers as uncertainty swells within the organization.
One person was killed in a triple shooting near Mills College in Oakland, Marin County voluntarily enters lockdown today with other Bay Area counties, and the SF Board of Supervisors is looking into creating a universal basic income program.
Assemblymember David Chiu is trying to get the statewide residential eviction moratorium extended through 2021, an East Bay gym continues defying health orders, and two Warriors players have tested COVID-positive.
After the previous state Department of Public Health director resigned over case count snafus, Gavin Newsom turns to his hometown health officer to fill the spot.
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Frustratingly, the Bay Area is still not out of the woods for this fire season, and a second rare December Red Flag Warning could come with a second wind event in the middle of this week.
A 42-year-old man was left with life-threatening injuries after being shot twice while fleeing from two suspects during a Sunday night mugging in Noe Valley.
In the second instance of an SFPD officer facing charges stemming from an officer-involved shooting in just two weeks, District Attorney Chesa Boudin announced Monday that a grand jury has returned an indictment of Officer Christopher Flores for the Dec. 2019 shooting of Jamaica Hampton.
San Francisco added 316 new COVID-19 cases on Monday morning, and over 540 between Saturday and Sunday, marking the biggest three-day jump in new cases the city has seen since the pandemic began.
California AG Xavier Becerra is a surprise pick for Biden's Health and Human Services Secretary, the state topped 30,000 new COVID cases on Saturday, and a woman was arrested in Marin after walking onto the freeway carrying an infant.
Earlier in the pandemic, the Oakland Zoo and San Francisco Zoo were financially devastated after being shuttered for months — with the East Bay zoological institution at one point in danger of permanently closing. Now those same hardships could come back.
You're not the only one who's noticed empty toilet paper aisles and woefully long grocery store lines in San Francisco (and elsewhere in the Bay Area).
A Red Flag Warning will be in effect for most of the Bay Area from 11 p.m. Sunday to 11 a.m Monday, rent prices continue to fall in SF, and Bay Area personal care establishments — like nail salons, barbershops, and tattoo parlors — are seeing huge amounts of customers before shutdown tonight.
