QAnon posts are now dominating Facebook’s daily ‘top ten,' while Youtube is unwittingly allowing the peddlers of satanic pedophile pizza conspiracy theories to monetize small fortunes.
If you're heading out to meet a group of ten people in someone's backyard in San Francisco tonight, the chances that one of those people will be currently infected with the coronavirus is 15 percent. Raise the group number to 25, and the probability rises to 34 percent.
A Marina District home with views of the Bay and Golden Gate Bridge has just set a neighborhood record as the most expensive single-family home ever to hit the market.
In a remarkable turn for local anglers, the rare but not technically endangered tuna, which are prized for sushi meat in Japan especially, have been swimming in closer to shore than they ever do.
One time Google/Alphabet employee Anthony Levandowski, who jumped ship to take a generous offer from Uber in 2016 that included $680 million for his self-driving truck startup Otto, has just been sentenced to 18 months in jail for stealing trade secrets.
Thursday marks the kickoff of the PGA Championship, the only major golf tournament in the 2019-20 season, and it's happening in San Francisco's Harding Park without any fans able to attend.
Multiple Bay Area counties are now going to be recommending that businesses allow workers to return to work 10 days after testing positive for COVID-19, so long as they have a relatively mild case.
A body found by the road in San Bruno last month has been ID'd as a Vallejo man, Marin County is discussing a Sir Francis Drake Blvd. name change, and Clorox says its wipes won't be fully restocked until next year.
A CA GOP consultant laments getting COVID along with his wife, four bears have been struck by cars in the last three weeks in Yosemite, and a 22nd San Quentin inmate has died of the coronavirus.
A new public opinion poll from UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS) found that former Vice President Joe Biden's lead over President Trump in California has eclipsed Hillary Clinton's lead over Trump around this time four years ago by 9 percentage points.
While other metrics like declining hospitalizations appear to show a positive trend in the pandemic in California, the current confirmed case numbers for many counties represent undercounts due to a technical issue.
A Vallejo man was arrested early Monday following an incident involving a suspected kidnapping and a chase that ended with him smashing up a very expensive sports car.
The MAGA couple who took black paint to a Black Lives Matter street mural in the East Bay has pleaded not guilty, blaming George Soros for their legal predicament because of course they did.
Joining the series of layoff notices sent to airline employees at multiple companies in the last month, Alaska Airlines and American Airlines have given the heads-up to hundreds of local staff that their jobs could be on the line.
There's a trio of permanent restaurant closures to report as we roll into the month of August and approach the sixth month of this pandemic. First up, marking the end of an era for a Dogpatch mainstay, Serpentine is closing its doors for good.
A San Francisco judge denied a legal challenge by landlords to the city's COVID eviction-protection law, a trackside fire caused major delays on BART's Berryessa line today, and a Vallejo couple of 35 years both died of COVID within 11 days of each other.
Four blocks of Jones Street in the Tenderloin are getting made into pedestrian-friendly space, a lot of UC Berkeley students are withdrawing for the semester, and the Apple Fire in SoCal has grown to 41 square miles.
“Hundreds” of players from across the Pac-12 say they will not take the field unless college football cleans up its safety protocols and gives them health insurance.
With existing restaurants already in major existential and financial struggles, the thought of planning a new restaurant right now feels a bit decadent and scary.
In the enormous state of California — which as Governor Gavin Newsom has said before is equivalent in scale to about 20 states the size of Nebraska or Idaho — the latest surge in coronavirus cases is showing signs of abating, though that should probably only inspire some cautious optimism.
A 52-year-old woman living in the Central Valley was arrested in recent weeks in connection with a 32-year-old cold-case homicide of an infant boy, known only as Baby John Doe.
Living in this country during the COVID-19 pandemic is an obviously surreal experience. A case in point is the mad, profit-driven rush to resume professional sports, and what it might mean both for players, and for encouraging dangerous social gatherings among fans.
While most of the restaurant news of the last four months has been about closings and pivots to takeout, there have been a few new restaurant projects proceeding hopefully through this pandemic storm, cautiously optimistic that they will emerge out the other side of it. And all of them are Italian.
After nearly 2,200 inmates at San Quentin State Prison contracted the coronavirus beginning in early June, the number of active cases in custody on Monday fell to 145, while two more deaths have been recorded.
A big-rig crash clogs up I-580 eastbound near Livermore, San Mateo County hair and nail salon owners lament having to close again, and the PGA Championship lands in SF on Thursday.
