The other shoe finally dropped at noon Saturday when Mayor Breed took to Twitter to announce that SF has fallen into the state's "purple" tier status — and will comply with California's limited stay-at-home curfew (which requires people to stay indoors from 10:00 p.m. to 5 a.m.) starting Monday.
As announced by City health officials Friday, San Francisco is now using mobile data technology to better its contact tracing efforts; the new virtual assistant tool from California will be used by SF's 200 contact tracers.
A one-alarm fire broke out Friday night around 8:30 p.m. near Russin Hill, two people died in a deadly Sacramento mall shooting yesterday, and the CDC will vote next week on who will receive Pfizer's vaccine first and how it will be distributed.
Oakland's Slow Streets program has helped reduce the number of traffic-related injuries since the program started, LA officially adopted a new stay-at-home order Friday, and organizers of SantaCon 2020 have canceled the annual bar-hopping event — a welcomed bit of good news for the day.
14-year-old Tyler Gordon of San Jose painted a portrait of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and posted a time-lapse video of himself painting it on Twitter — asking for retweets in the hope of getting Harris's attention. And he got it!
It’s real name is the 19th Avenue Combined City Project, but Sunset District residents and motorists will probably have other words for this water- and sewer-line overhaul slated to last until 2023.
A four-year-old girl was swept into the ocean by a large wave on Thanksgiving Day in West Marin and drowned.
San Francisco-based grocery delivery startup Good Eggs left an unknown number of customers high and dry with nothing to eat on Thanksgiving — forcing some on last-minute grocery runs and others ordering takeout and fuming on social media.
Santa Clara County's ICU bed capacity was rapidly filling up this week amid a surge in COVID cases around the region.
There's no rain in the forecast for the next week or two, an apartment fire displaced 17 in Fremont, and park rangers have reached the Candelabra Tree in Butano State Park in San Mateo County and say it is mostly unscathed from the recent CZU fires.
Glide Memorial Church's annual Thanksgiving meal is happening outdoors, UCSF is among seven CA hospitals first in line for the COVID vaccine, and the Golden Gate Bridge parking lots are closed through the weekend.
Homeless San Jose murder suspect Fernando Jesus Lopez was reportedly deported three times, BART has reached an agreement with its unions, and ne'er-do-wells are shooting Bernal outdoor diners with paintballs.
It's been a few years since SFist has reposted local cooking school founder Mary Risley's delightful advice for roasting a Thanksgiving turkey — and it bears repeating in a year when a lot of people may be trying to do this for the first time at home and not with family.
Illuminate SF, the organization that brought us The Bay Lights on the Bay Bridge, has a "Festival of Light" this holiday season that spans many corners of the city — and it's the perfect excuse for a pandemic-friendly urban hike after dark.
Whether you're spending Thanksgiving on a Zoom call with relatives or hunkered down with your quarantine crew, this year's holiday will likely be weirder ... and more stressful ... than years
The district attorney is making a renewed push for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to release his long-jailed father, as a COVID-19 outbreak hits the maximum security prison where he's incarcerated.
Several weeks after public health officials around the Bay began sounding alarm bells about upticks in case numbers, the resulting uptick in cases requiring hospitalization is now happening in force at hospitals around the region.
San Francisco-based Salesforce is reportedly in advanced negotiations to acquire workplace messaging app Slack, in the latest of a flurry of year-end mergers and acquisitions.
California Highway Patrol officers will be out in force beginning at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, pulling over speeders and unsafe drivers in the hope of preventing tragedies on the road.
San Francisco's homicide count has already surpassed last year's total of 41, hitting 45 as of last week with the fatal killings of Lamar Williams and Demaree Hampton in Hunters Point.
A Muni operator has died from COVID complications, the homeless man suspected in a fatal Sunday stabbing at a San Jose shelter had been jailed recently for domestic violence, and the remains of a missing woman were found in the Russian River.
A married couple from the Central Valley was convicted for the 2019 road-rage shooting of Raul Garcia, Meals on Wheels just opened a new SF facility, and SF has avoided a move to the "Purple" tier at least for a few days.
A scam involving the names and identities of tens of thousands of California prison inmates — including convicted wife murderer Scott Peterson — has apparently enabled scammers and some inmates themselves to make off with at least $140 million.
Engineers at Facebook reportedly labeled certain types of posts internally as “bad for the world,” and when limiting them led to less engagement on the platform, the baddies got boosted back.
Programs in San Francisco and Alameda counties to house the homeless in hotels tend to have some draconian rules for those who accept shelter, and several individuals who have experienced these hotel accommodations say they're not worth the cost their freedoms.
