Data show that huge chain restaurants and prominent law firms enjoyed more than a quarter of the loan monies made available, while small businesses and independent restaurants shared the rest of the pot and received far smaller sums.
The fact that there's no rain in the current forecast for the Bay Area may not be anything to fret about just yet, according to the National Weather Service.
The SFMTA is taking its first baby steps toward reopening the Muni Metro, and those will begin with the December 19 restart of the J-Church line.
The SF Board of Supervisors passed a ban on smoking inside apartment buildings (cannabis is still allowed), eight people have been charged with felony looting from late-May civil unrest in Walnut Creek, and a body was found Tuesday night on Skyline Blvd. in San Mateo County.
Captain Jerry Boylan who helmed the dive boat Conception where 34 people perished in a fire last year has been charged with seaman's manslaughter, SF is getting a new floating firehouse, and AG Bill Barr finally grew a pair.
Cruelty, subjugation, and much worse took place centuries ago at what we now call Dolores Park, and Supervisor Hillary Ronen wants that remembered as part of the park.
We all know that not everyone is following pandemic isolation recommendations to the T these days. But when the leaders who daily try to drill the rules into us violate the rules themselves, it's a recipe for a whole lot of exasperation and outrage in the media and on social media.
Confirming the story that was first reported last week about the two companies being in "advanced" talks about an acquisition, Salesforce and Slack announced Tuesday that they are joining forces.
While they did not announce any further restrictions on activities and businesses in the city, they hinted that these would be coming tomorrow or later in the week.
Police and an organization called Mothers Against Murder are offering a $20,000 reward for help capturing and convicting a suspect in a double-homicide that occurred in mid-October 2018 in an industrial park in East Palo Alto.
The San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority is potentially looking at laying off 1,000 to 1,200 of its staff in the next fiscal year, which would mean many Muni drivers and maintenance workers losing their jobs starting next summer.
There have now been over 3,300 new cases in California prisons in the last 14 days, and a new report suggests that mask-wearing and other safety protocols have been lax or non-existent at some prisons during the pandemic.
The COVID test-positivity rate among Latinx people in a recent testing drive in SF was 8%, SF supervisors are still looking to pass a smoking ban in apartment buildings, and two CHP officers are uninjured after being shot at in Oakland.
A second stimulus package may still be coming, Dr. Scott Atlas has resigned from the White House and will slink back to the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and California will be receiving 300,000 doses of Pfizer's vaccine before year-end.
Bigger fish are frying in the ever-expanding Mohammed Nuru DPW scandal, as the head of SF’s Public Utilities Commission has his home raided, gets charged with fraud, and possibly faces 20 years in prison.
It’s sort of like “Care Not Cops,” as the hopefully less escalatory Street Crisis Response Team starts its Mental Health SF pilot program today for non-violent incident response.
With 75 percent of ICU beds now occupied across the state and 72 percent occupied in the Bay Area, Governor Gavin Newsom warned of a stricter stay-at-home order possibly to come within days for the 51 "Purple" tier counties in California.
SF Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will not remain quiet about city and state public-health restrictions inhibiting him and the church from holding in-person services, as he insists upon being on the wrong side of history during a pandemic, for God's sake.
Four forced turnovers propelled the 49ers to a 23-20 victory over the Rams Sunday night in LA, as team officials scrambled to find new facilities amidst emerging coronavirus restrictions from Santa Clara County.
Bay Area rapper Lil Yase, who was known for his mixtapes and singles including "Get It In" and "No Diss," was shot and killed early Saturday near the East Dublin/Pleasanton BART station under mysterious circumstances.
A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded in Saturday night shootings in East Oakland that took place within minutes of each other.
San Francisco added 521 COVID cases since Thanksgiving, the percentage of homes on the market in SF with reduced listings hits nine-year high, and the UC application deadline has been extended after a technical glitch.
When Santa Clara County announced it would enter into the state's "purple" tier of COVID-19 restrictions on Saturday, it effectively shuttered any chance of the 49ers playing at Levi's Stadium. Now, it's possible they'll play their remaining three home games at Arizona's State Farm Stadium.
The pandemic continues to serve one gut-punch after the other — with today's closing of the over 61-year-old Millbrae Pancake House being one of the more recent blows.
San Francisco will roll back (or reduce) capacity for certain activities today at noon, one of the largest COVID-19 testing efforts in the city started Sunday in the Mission, and United Airlines has begun shipping Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on charter flights.
