DoorDash, which like other delivery apps must abide by a 15-percent delivery commission cap in San Francisco that was imposed back in April, was charging at least 10 local restaurants an outrageous 30-percent fee on delivery and pickup orders as recently as this week.
Cases continue to surge in Alameda and Contra Costa counties; the CDC is cowing to President Trump's anger over guidelines around the reopening of schools; and a new study out of the UK points to serious, lasting brain disorders in recovered COVID-19 patients.
With more people frivolously calling the police in incidents involving minorities, SF Supervisor Shamann Walton has proposed an order that would outlaw “racially biased” police calls.
Calling the news "heartbreaking," and citing that it will impact some 240 student-athletes and 22 coaches, Stanford announced the upcoming end of almost a dozen varsity teams including men's volleyball, men's and women's fencing, and field hockey.
Facebook has repeatedly failed the civil rights community and had a "deeply troubling" response to the ongoing problem of President Trump's posts, according to a final report from a two-year-long civil rights audit.
In a sign of growing trouble for the airline industry, United Airlines has sent mandated 60-day job-cut warnings to 36,000 of its employees — or nearly half of its U.S. staff.
A Santa Clara County correctional officer has been arrested for smuggling drugs to inmates, a new report reveals more SFPD shadiness around the Bryan Carmody affair, and the Crews Fire near Gilroy is now 60% contained.
A man has been charged with shooting at police officers during looting activity in San Leandro on May 31, Chez Panisse is suing its insurance company, and the UC system has its first Black president.
The East Bay pair that were videotaped Saturday painting over a Black Lives Matter street mural outside the county courthouse in Martinez have now been publicly identified, and the district attorney is charging them with a hate crime.
Cancel culture and Twitter did their thing, as a local “cloud solution” CEO is identified as the fellow who yelled “Trump’s gonna f*** you” and “You Asian piece of s***” in a Monterey incident.
The Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking fallout appears to have officially reached Silicon Valley, and now Ellen Pao is accusing Kleiner Perkins personnel of inviting Ghislaine Maxwell to a major event despite accusations against her.
Facebook's CEO and COO, Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, "expect[ed] an A for attendance" just for agreeing to meet directly with civil rights groups that have spurred a massive boycott by major advertisers, according to one meeting attendee.
In a bizarre and scary incident, a doctor and father of three was shot and killed Friday in the woods east of Oroville, near Downieville, in Sierra County over the holiday weekend while he was off-roading with his 15-year-old son.
San Francisco recorded just 28 new COVID-19 cases between Monday and Tuesday this week, however the city's new case metrics are still well above the public health department's goal, and thus outdoor bars and indoor dining have to remain on an indefinite pause.
As of a week ago, there were just over 1,000 active cases of COVID-19 at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County. That number has grown to over 1,400, or 40 percent, and now a total of six inmates have died from the disease. It is by far the biggest outbreak at a California prison.
Napa County is set to be placed on a state watch list by the California Department of Public Health on Monday, and that means it will have to re-close a number of businesses that have reopened there in the last month.
A COVID outbreak has hit the California Assembly, the woman who coughed on a baby at a San Jose yogurt shop has been fired from her teaching job, the Crews Fire near Gilroy has grown to 5,400 acres.
Newsom is threatening sanctions for elected officials if public health guidance is ignored, a man was fatally shot in the Bayview Sunday night, and both the four-alarm Clock Tower Fire and a three-alarm grass fire began burning across the Bay Monday.
The decision of when and how to dispatch patrol officers is critical and has proven itself to be the trigger of a chain of events that all too often can lead to a tragic outcome.
A new department would have one job — keeping our haggard sidewalks clean — under Supervisor Matt Haney’s proposal to break up the scandal-plagued Department of Public Works.
Sonder, the company that offers corporate-style rentals of furnished units for several months at a time and which controversially took control of a building at the intersection of Church and Market Streets last summer, is now suing to get out of its lease at the property, citing the pandemic.
Sources from City Hall and the local restaurant lobby say that San Francisco will not be reopening restaurants for indoor dining on July 13 as previously planned.
A dude wearing a "Four More Years" Trump 2020 t-shirt and a female companion decided to make a statement Sunday in Martinez by painting over a yellow, block-lettered "Black Lives Matter" mural on a city street with black paint.
San Francisco police on Sunday announced that a six-year-old child was killed in a shooting Saturday night that injured one other person.
The Supreme Court has ruled on "faithless electors," confusion reigns in Santa Clara County as the state orders outdoor restaurants to shutter, and the Uber/Postmates deal has gone through.
