Exactly a week after San Franciscans woke up to a dystopian, dark-orange sky, the city arose to fresh air and blueish/foggy sky on Wednesday morning. How sweet it is.
Two people were killed in a shooting near San Jose State Tuesday night, UCSF is seeking study participants for an app-based location-tracing effort for COVID-19, and more than a dozen SF schools may be reopening for in-person teaching soon.
Berkeley hills residents are freaked out by illegal fireworks being set off during fire season on Grizzly Peak, a Castro landlord is apparently demanding back rent from retail tenants, and the World Series will be played in a bubble in Arlington, Texas.
It's certainly a dicey subject across the nation, and there's still far too little data to say for certain whether indoor restaurant dining is a recipe for disaster in this pandemic, or a mitigated risk.
Six months into a pandemic, with ongoing restrictions on what businesses can be open and how and when, Mayor London Breed knows that even in mostly compliant, science-trusting San Francisco, people are reaching the end of their ropes in many cases.
Here we go again, as a this time a Medical Examiner lab analyst has been arrested with narcotics allegedly ripped off from his own lab, and as many as 2,500 cases could be tainted.
Despite two capsizes and some harrowing stories of nearly giving up, 40-year-old Lia Ditton just completed a solo row from the San Francisco Bay to Honolulu in 86 days, 11 days longer than she'd planned.
Even though pre-announced rolling blackouts due to overloads of the electrical grid were not as severe or prolonged as they sounded like they would be last month, PG&E did have to cut off power for some communities due to what they now say was an internal communications error.
Data from a recent KGO/ABC 7 investigation shows that Black people continue to be pulled over by SF police at a much higher rate than white people — and higher than even a few years ago.
The deYoung Museum is reopening on September 25, four CHP officers likely exposed to fentanyl on Sunday on the Golden Gate Bridge are out of the hospital, and a doctor says breathing this air is equivalent to 8 cigarettes.
Longtime society figure and arts patron Ann Getty died suddenly on Sunday night, there's a movement to put a Black-owned NFL team in Oakland, and SF's gyms and hair salons are happy to be back open.
The California wildfires have now collectively burned over 3.2 million acres across the state — an area the size of Connecticut — with the August Complex fire still just 30 percent contained. To thwart further catastrophe, PG&E is warning account holders to prepare for more power shutoffs… again.
Another small study out of UCLA suggests that Los Angeles may have seen its first COVID cases before Christmas without anyone realizing it.
Knowing that the pandemic will likely keep the bar itself from reopening indoors anytime soon and crafting its cocktail artistry in keeping with its established brand, Trick Dog is reopening for now under a slightly different guise and concept: Quik Dog.
If the seemingly constant Steve Young-Kyler Murray comparisons weren’t enough to make you throw something at the television, the San Francisco 49ers dropped their home opener to the Arizona Cardinals 20-24 on Sunday afternoon in devastatingly dull fashion.
Microsoft and Twitter get left at the altar, as the Redwood City-based enterprise software giant with no real experience in social media wins the prized video app that Trump pressured into being sold.
Smoky air looks to be persisting across the Bay Area until the middle of this week, when — finally — some clean ocean air should begin moving, possibly along with a light storm system and some rain.
Trump was doing his best to seem presidential and look like he cared as he met with state leaders in Sacramento about the wildfire response, and Governor Gavin Newsom did his best not to spit in his face.
Those permit stickers once again mean something for people parking in SF; people can have gym workouts, massages, and haircuts indoors agains starting today; and the 49ers lost to the Cardinals during their smoky season opener.
A reportedly impaired driver crashed into a median divider near the Golden Gate Bridge toll plaza on Sunday morning, and the incident — apparently due to some quantity of fentanyl inside the vehicle — led to seven people being hospitalized for fentanyl exposure.
SF’s air quality has remained terrible over the past week, forcing denizens of the city to seek shelter inside — often at the expense of socializing with loved ones, family members, and casual acquaintances. Suffice to say this period of isolation has taken a toll on many people’s mental health.
The Haight-Ashbury’s retail landscape has been a shell of its former self for well over six months now. But a sliver of pre-pandemic normalcy is slated to come back into the zeitgeist next week when SF's Amoeba Music reopens (for limited hours), allowing vinyl purveyors to sift their stacks.
People are actively fleeing the Bay Area to escape the hellacious air conditions, BART (being BART) suddenly shut down this morning, and gyms, nail and hair salons, and hotels are readying to reopen for certain indoor services starting tomorrow.
Friday, Governor Newsom (while sitting at an ash-covered picnic table) signed Assembly Bill 2147 into law, allowing inmates who have worked as firefighters to ask for the dismissal of their charges — which will make it feasible for them to become professional firefighters once they're released.
Among the few good things to come out of shelter-in-place — which we can collectively say that improved air quality is now no longer on that shortlist — SF's Slow Streets Program is a celebrated nicety. But the initiative is currently facing criticisms for not undergoing environmental review.
