A group of small boutique gyms with personalized fitness training are demanding to see scientific evidence supporting San Francisco officials' reasoning for keeping their doors closed during the ongoing public health orders.
While evangelical churches and multiple denominations have been called out around the country and in California for encouraging people to gather for worship in spite of public health orders, it's the Catholic Church in San Francisco that appears to be the biggest problem.
It's time for the southward migration of humpback whales down the Pacific coast, and these huge marine mammals need to feed as much as possible as they swim to pack on blubber before reaching warmer waters in Mexico with little to eat for months.
Ahead of planned protests in Larkspur this week, the city manager ordered the removal of a controversial statue of explorer and slave trader Sir Francis Drake from an area near the ferry terminal.
Sonoma County had its single biggest one-day leap in its COVID death count late Tuesday when it recorded seven new deaths from the coronavirus, all in skilled nursing facilities.
Doctors say the "worried well" are slowing down COVID test results, Newsom is withholding aid from two Central Valley towns for defying health orders, and San Quentin's outbreak could still be a huge problem for the region.
SF supervisors just approved an "overpaid CEO tax" for the Nov. ballot, Oracle Park and the Chase Center are laying off thousands of food-service workers, and the public is being asked for help in the case of a Gilroy man found on fire by Highway 101 last weekend.
As part of a study and in an outreach effort aimed at the San Francisco community hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, free, fast testing will be offered two days a week at the 24th Street & Mission BART station.
Two-and-a-half-year-old Divisadero Spanish restaurant Barvale, which is part of the ever-expanding restaurant empire of Adriano Paganini and his Back of the House restaurant group, has permanently closed. In its place, as announced on a sign on the window, will be a new Beretta pop-up.
The tallest residential butt of jokes in San Francisco will supposedly finally get fixed, as its permits and approvals for repairs are at long last complete.
A wedding that had been rescheduled from April to the July 4th weekend at the landmark Saints Peter and Paul’s Church in North Beach was crashed by city officials as the bride and groom's families pressed ahead with having 100 people attending indoors.
A body was discovered Monday evening in the water at Mountain Lake, on the southern side of the Presidio.
A San Francisco firefighter suffered minor injuries while battling a huge, five-alarm blaze at the edge of the Mission District Tuesday morning.
A video of some doctors broadcasting from in front of the Supreme Court building and making spurious claims about the COVID-19 pandemic — which the president of course retweeted — has been removed by Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube citing their policies on misinformation.
Santa Cruz County just landed on the state watch list, the Coalition on Homelessness is decrying the displacement of homeless people for a PGA tournament, and Bill Barr is telling Congress why protesters should be abducted.
A massive fire broke out around 7 a.m. Tuesday that is sending thick black smoke over San Francisco, and distracting drivers during their commute on Highway 101.
California legislators plan to fill in the gap if Senate Republicans try to decrease weekly supplemental unemployment benefits, vandals caused $200K in damages in Oakland, and former 49er Dana Stubblefield has been found guilty in a 2015 rape case.
A few updates for this pandemic Monday: a study suggests that there are six "types" of COVID infections, UCSF has a paper about everything doctors have learned so far about treating COVID-19, and the Bay Area added over 700 new cases today.
New allegations emerge in last week’s attack of a Muni driver, with claims that the deplorable teens punched and spit on the driver, and accused him of having COVID-19 because he’s Asian.
The growing recognition that monuments to white men who supported oppression have no place in our public spaces has been a long time coming. But protesters who are toppling them wield a blunt instrument.
The latest public health order from the city has been expanded to "all fluid situations where distances between people change frequently."
Racists gonna racist, and in Trump's America, in a pandemic, with lots of people on edge in public, their racism seems to want to bubble up and proudly burst forth all the more.
Like just about everything else in 2020, this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is going to be a digital happening, with organizers aptly naming this year’s theme "Let the Music Play On."
Trump and Biden are attacking Twitter and Facebook in new ads, police presence tamps down Lake Merritt gatherings, and a woman was shot and killed this morning outside a 7-11 in Antioch.
Amid the pandemic, SF's Slow Streets have helped usher in a superb notion: less-congested roads given back to the people is a win-win situation for pedestrians and motorists. Valencia Street's closure this weekend between 16th and 17th, and between 18th and 19th streets is proof of that idea.
