SFDPH health inspectors have started assessing schools in the city ahead of in-class teaching, Oakland's youths are rallying to save the planet, and a woman was hospitalized this week after a coyote bit her on the leg at a remote Marin County beach.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died Friday at the age of 87 of complications from the recurrence of metastatic pancreatic cancer that she first revealed in July.
Don't expect all small restaurants (like Frances) to rush open if they're allowed to at 25% capacity, a suspect is in custody after a mid-day stabbing on BART, and a male suspect tried to carjack an ambulance in the Tenderloin early Friday morning.
A San Mateo-based "cloud-based data-warehousing startup" found a vendor that claimed they could project the company's name on the SF City Hall dome on Wednesday night in celebration of their IPO, and city officials don't understand how this happened.
Some good news for the world of SF queer bars for a change! El Rio has just won a grant from the Human Rights Commission and Showtime's "Queer to Stay: An LGBTQ+ Business Preservation Initiative," which will hopefully help the bar stay afloat as it continues to remain closed.
There are 12 California ballot initiatives lost in the noise of the 2020 pandemic presidential election, but here are the state measures whose ads will soon clog your mailbox and television airwaves.
San Francisco's Catholic Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone continues doing his level best to prove his conservative credentials and alienate the majority of people in the city he represents.
Air quality in San Francisco and the Bay Area is predicted to slide into potentially unhealthy territory by Sunday, as an area of high pressure puts an end to the nice marine breeze we've been having for a couple of days that's pushed wildfire smoke away to the north and east.
Restaurant owners have been waiting on pins and needles — and a pile of debt — to be told when San Francisco would allow indoor dining spaces to reopen to the public again. And it sounds like end of September/early October is it.
The number of individuals facing federal charges in the ongoing San Francisco City Hall corruption scandal rose to eight this week, as two local businessmen were charged with bribing former Department of Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru.
TikTok is leaving the Apple and Google app stores under Trump's orders, the North Complex fire is now the fifth largest in state history as well as the fifth deadliest, and Census enumerators in SF say they were told there was no more work in August.
A federally funded Berkeley lab has stopped its diversity training due to Trump's order, Tom Steyer is selling his Pac Heights mansion for $11 million, and Oregon is being threatened with dry lightning.
In an interview that made news because Jim Cramer called her “Crazy Nancy,” Speaker Pelosi lent her support to a bipartisan $125 billion restaurant aid bill that senators hope to ram past Mitch McConnell.
With the help of a state grant, San Francisco may purchase a large single-room-occupancy hotel building that for years has been a senior-housing complex.
Let’s be clear: “woke” is a terrible name for any television or internet show — especially right now. Nevertheless, here we are, reviewing Hulu’s complicated "Woke," which depicts the fictionalized (and modernized) version of the life and career of beloved Bay Area cartoonist Keith Knight.
Even with ridership down by two-thirds, on popular bus routes and bus shuttles that replace the shutdown light-rail lines, some drivers say things are too close for comfort with passengers.
A LOT has been written in recent weeks about nightmare scenarios with this sitting president as we approach this nightmare election in a year rife with nightmares. But there are a few positive details enshrined in the Constitution for crises like this that might provide some comfort.
It's been almost exactly a year since 34 people perished in a fire aboard a scuba tour boat off the Santa Barbara coast, many of them Bay Area and Santa Cruz residents, and now details have emerged from the NTSB investigation.
Some Santa Clara County business owners are lobbying for faster "red" tier reopening, almost everyone in the CZU Lightning Complex fire zone has returned home, and all Yoga Tree studios are remaining closed indefinitely.
Pharma company Eli Lilly announced very promising results for a COVID treatment, a five-alarm fire did heavy damage to a building in Oakland's Chinatown, and 20-year-old Finnegan Elder offered an apology in court to the family of the Italian cop he killed in Rome last July.
In keeping with the state guidelines for reopening for "red" tier counties, at least two movie theaters in Napa County reopened for business last week at 25-percent capacity. More are now set to open in San Rafael and elsewhere in Marin County after it reached "red" status on Tuesday.
Cities and counties across California are spinning cobwebs of different possible Halloween celebration scenarios, but Mayor Breed warns we may be whistling past the graveyard if we let kids trick-or-treat here.
A private company allegedly took it upon themselves last week to clear out an encampment that had been established for about six months outside the former Honda dealership on Market Street at South Van Ness.
Kim Kardashian West, Jennifer Lawrence, and Sacha Baron Cohen are among the celebrities leading a charge to boycott Facebook and Instagram for a day. But is a one-day boycott really sending a message that a monthslong boycott by high-paying advertisers hasn't?
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An apparently homeless man walked into a boba tea shop in downtown Berkeley and lit some WD-40 on fire in an attempt to torch several students who were waiting in line.
