Now as we're at least ankle-deep in a growing surge of cases in the Bay Area, it's worth remembering that San Francisco suffered its worst part of the last pandemic after the holidays, in January 1919, when a lot of people were sick of wearing masks.
Actress Winona Ryder is selling a San Francisco home that many San Franciscans likely didn't know she owned — since she bought it at the height of her fame in the mid-1990s and isn't often spotted around town these days.
San Francisco is still expected to move into the "Purple" tier this week (or today), Elon Musk just overtook Bill Gates as the second-richest person in the world, and California just broke its own record again for new daily COVID cases with over 20,000.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein has caved to pressure from the Left and will remove herself from a powerful Senate committee, the Twin Peaks tunnel will begin its expensive fix next week, and the GSA has given Biden the transition nod at last.
For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
The 555 California Street building, which the Trump family co-owns, is no longer for sale, and Trump can’t be happy that he won’t get his $1.5 billion payout anytime soon.
San Francisco has 244 people working on contact tracing, and yet the data on where COVID cases are largely coming from remains slim — still, indoor activities like dining and house parties *seem* to be fueling some of the current surge.
Russian River Brewing just announced that its now annual tradition of releasing its obsessed-over triple IPA Pliny the Younger won't be happening in February like it usually does — with all the incumbent release parties and lines of beer geeks.
The annual tradition of seeing adoptable puppies and kittens in the windows of Macy's in Union Square, courtesy of the SPCA, will be more of a virtual affair this year.
That major fire in Berkeley is still active, two people were killed in a stabbing during a religious service at a San Jose church Sunday night, and three of Gov. Gavin Newsom's four kids were recently exposed to a COVID-positive CHP officer.
Though Trans Day of Resilience — which takes place every year on November 20 to mourn trans individuals murdered by acts of violence — was Friday, the Haight Street Art Center's newest exhibit honoring BIPOC trans people will be on display until January 31.
In what's proving to be a hotbed for COVID-19 infections, managers at Golden Gate Fields — the still-closed horse racing track in Albany — have now reported 200-plus employees have tested positive for coronavirus; this figure is double what was initially reported on Friday.
An incredibly large, six-alarm fire erupted in downtown Berkeley Saturday night, protesters gathered outside Zuckerberg’s home yesterday to denounce the social media platform's spread of misinformation, and San Jose police aren't planning to strictly enforce the county’s in-place curfew.
Zura, the San Francisco Zoo's beloved Western lowland gorilla — who was the granddaughter of the first-ever gorilla born in captivity — passed away before the weekend at almost 40 years old.
A sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in Santa Clara might push the county's healthcare system to its limits, one of Gavin Newsom's kids is now in quarantine after being possibly exposed to COVID-19, and Twitter is set to hand over its @POTUS account to Joe Biden's team on Inauguration Day.
A data analysis done by ABC7 showed Marin has the highest COVID-19 per capita death rate among Bay Area counties, coronavirus testing "pop-ups" are set to begin across SF ahead of Thanksgiving, and Donald Trump Jr. is now positive for COVID-19 — because, well, karma.
Three orphaned mountain lion kittens rescued during the Zogg Fire in Shasta County last month are heading to a new home in Ohio.
The SFMTA brass got a talking-to from the Board of Supervisors this week about their inability to complete big projects on time and on budget — and the scolding came after the revelation of another blunder by staff.
SF is likely to join the 41 counties in the "Purple" tier by next week, and with that comes the shutdown of all gyms, movie theaters, and places of worship once again.
It's a particularly sad closure for the Bay Area Deaf community, given that this was one of the only Deaf-owned and operated restaurants in the country.
A fire that began on the 11th Floor of 440 Davis Court in San Francisco led to a late-night evacuation of several floors of the Financial District highrise, and injured at least four residents.
Demonstrators marched on Thursday to protest the Tuesday police shooting outside the Westfield mall, 100 employees at Golden Gate Fields racetrack have COVID, and some anti-maskers gave a Nazi salute to the Solano County Board of Supervisors.
The Census Bureau told Trump their counting would not be finished by the end of his term, Mayor Breed is putting Prop H into effect sooner than next year, and Klay Thompson has a season-ending Achilles tear.
Through Christmas week and possibly longer, residents in California counties in the state's "Purple" tier for reopening must now stop gathering with anyone outside their household or doing anything after 10 p.m., says the governor.
An online tool with the extremely cool name CopWatch lets you search on public records of officer complaints, but not much has been uploaded yet.
