Adding further evidence to theories that China kept the coronavirus and a spreading epidemic of flu-like symptoms hidden from the world for several months before disclosing what was happening, Italian researchers found COVID antibodies in study participants dating back to September of last year.
The saga of North Beach's landmark Tosca Cafe — which eight years ago appeared in danger of closing forever, only to be saved once, close again, and be saved yet again by a well known trio of new owners last year — is turning another page this week.
"We are going to proceed with caution to do everything we can to avoid a [more total] shutdown," Mayor London Breed said.
A day ahead of the usual Tuesday update, Gov. Newsom announced an "emergency brake" on reopenings as 40 California counties slide backwards in their COVID metrics.
Grab-and-run thievery is nothing new at the high-end shops around Union Square, but despite the best efforts of security guards and a network of cameras, the thieves keep coming back during the pandemic.
Liberal bubble though it may be, there are more Trump voters in our midst than we may think here in SF. And not everyone in this town is immune to the attraction to an authoritarian strongman who spends his days doing his own PR on Twitter.
Moderna's vaccine may be even more effective than Pfizer's, Solano County is reportedly reverting back to the "Purple" tier this week, and a frat party at UC Davis may have been a super-spreading event.
A "multiple agency incident" is unfolding near Sutro Baths after reports came in this morning of a floating body that was seen in the waters around the area.
After clearly waiting for Proposition 22 to pass in California, DoorDash has put in motion plans to go public after filing papers that signaled its intent to do so on Friday.
Residents at a homeless encampment at Union Point Park were displaced by Friday's two-alarm fire in East Oakland, the SpaceX launch originally scheduled for Friday is expected to continue tonight, and abnormally high king tides are expected to inundate the San Francisco Bay Area today and tomorrow.
Presented with a request by the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (SF HSH) to perform the City's mandated biennial homeless count at earlier hours than normal, the Local Homeless Coordinating Board (LHCB) voted Friday afternoon to keep its late evening hours.
The Upper Great Highway — which has become a promenade for outdoor recreation and civic activism — could open up to cars again after the same SF supervisor who catalyzed its closure raised concerns that the uptick in traffic along nearby roadways has created "unsafe" conditions.
The SF Opera has moved its annual costume sale online to raise funds for staff, Moschetti coffee roastery in Vallejo has created a blend to commemorate Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, and a pilot COVID-19 tracing program (that utilizes smartphone data) will start Monday at UC Berkeley.
An early morning Friday fire burned an empty (and red-tagged) building in Oakland, there will be a new Saturday farmers' market at Lower Polk Plaza starting this weekend, and Rainbow Grocery in the Mission will now offer reservations for safer holiday-season shopping.
Elon Musk, who has spent a good part of this year questioning the rationale behind lockdowns and the severity of COVID-19 on Twitter, may be about to find out for himself what the disease does to a person.
Governor Gavin Newsom is facing criticism that he and his wife attended a 12-person dinner at the French Laundry for the birthday of a political advisor last week at which members of at least three households were present.
An arrest has been made in a case that made headlines from Halloween weekend, in which a 26-year-old man was kidnapped, beaten, shot, robbed, and dumped naked and bleeding by a roadside in San Francisco.
The Golden State Warriors do not even have a schedule for next season yet, but already announced plans to let fans into their arena at 50% capacity in a mere six weeks.
In preparation for what's going to be an unprecedented quick rollout of a vaccine that nearly everyone in the country will want, healthcare organizations around the Bay Area are purchasing low-temperature freezers that are capable of storing Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine.
In a meeting with Facebook employees this week, Mark Zuckerberg explained why, unlike Twitter, the company had not moved to permanently ban conservative blowhard and onetime White House advisor Steve Bannon from the platform, following those comments about beheading Dr. Fauci.
The latest county announcement about rolling back business openings due to rising COVID case metrics comes from Contra Costa County, which like San Francisco is shutting down all indoor dining indefinitely.
The long-delayed, way over-budget Central Subway project connecting SoMa and Chinatown in San Francisco will not be finished construction before the end of the year, as was last promised. Not that any Muni Metro trains are running right now, but of course it won't.
It's a crime story straight out of a Coen Brothers' script. Authorities in Saratoga this week arrested a 74-year-old San Jose woman in a bizarre cover-up designed to throw them off the trail of an embezzlement scheme in which her employer was the victim.
Golden Gate Bridge tolls may go up to $10 amid a fiscal crisis at the bridge district, two people were detained by the CHP in San Leandro following a road-rage freeway shooting, and the bodies found by a snowplow driver in Mono County have been ID'd.
SF General is seeking help identifying a patient, four people were stabbed within seven hours in San Francisco Tuesday night, and neighbors of a motel on Lombard Street that is housing the homeless say that there has been an uptick in attempted break-ins.
