Over the holiday weekend, Alameda County overtook Santa Clara County in its cumulative tally of COVID-19 cases as new cases appear to be growing faster in the East Bay this month than elsewhere in the region.
A protest action is planned for Tuesday evening that will bring projected messages onto 181 Fremont Street, the tower that is home to Facebook and Instagram's SF offices.
East Bay Congressman Mark DeSaulnier reveals he spent four weeks on a ventilator during his recent bout with pneumonia, and a fight is escalating over the Prop. 13-related ballot measure to raise business property taxes.
Locals flocked to SF beaches to enjoy the summer-like weather today, Oakland-born Fantasy Football founder Andy Mousalimas passes away at 95, and Newsom announced in-store retail can begin reopening in California counties — but don't expect any in the Bay Area to do so soon.
On the steps at San Francisco City Hall, ten of the Bay Area's leading black ministers held a "socially distanced sermon" Memorial Day afternoon, advocating for churchgoers to uphold social distancing practices — and continue "worshiping in place."
In honor of healthcare workers, the California Air National Guard is again going to be buzzing over the Bay Area — this time, though, they will be flying over San Francisco.
See's Candies is reopening and ramping up production, SF parks and beaches were relatively busy but mostly socially distanced on Sunday, and the U.S. is now banning flights from Brazil due to the pandemic situation there.
Saturday’s four-alarm fire at Pier 45 damaged a quarter of the dock's structures, filling the clouds with smoke and blanketing nearby cars in ash. SF firefighters will continue monitoring the area for hot spots today and tomorrow, and fishing businesses are now reporting catastrophic losses.
52-year-old Nancy Arechiga was apprehended by San Leandro police in relation to a number of xenophobic notes posted at the homes of East Bay Asian Americans, as well as in nearby public places, though she was later released due to the state’s backed-up bail schedule caused by the pandemic.
The University of San Francisco will pay $2.5M to settle fraudulent charges, the front page of The New York Times today lists 1,000 lives lost to COVID-19, and, despite a stern warning from Mayor Breed, SF parks were mobbed yesterday.
Pride Month in San Francisco this year continues to shapeshift as more events either altogether cancel or adopt entirely online programs. One creative adjustment to the current times is Eye Zen's performance-driven, queer history tour of SOMA that's set to digitally debut in June.
Tom Hanks surprised graduating seniors at his Oakland alma mater yesterday, La Taqueria is expected to reopen for takeout next week, and Mayor Breed cautions San Franciscans to heed social distancing guidelines this holiday weekend at our city's parks — or they could be "shut down."
The holiday weekend kicked off with a four-alarm fire at a fish processing facility on Pier 45 near Fisherman's Wharf. While now under control, the fire spread to the pier below the building and at one point threatened the SS Jeremiah O'Brien.
It's going to be HOT this weekend, the feds have reversed a decision to allow a homeless Navigation Center under a freeway in the Bayview, and a new poll found Americans are reluctant to head back to concert and restaurants right now.
As gay bars around the city have closed their doors here and there over the last ten years, I've always said that I wouldn't throw myself on any coffin unless or until The Stud had to close. Let the wailing begin.
A Carnegie Mellon University analysis found that 82 percent of the most influential COVID-19 retweeters are bots, and that bots comprise about half of the Twitter accounts that are crowing “Reopen America.”
San Francisco and five other counties around the Bay are planning to loosen restrictions for childcare and summer day camps, giving parents some much needed relief in the coming few months.
Wild animals all over the Bay Area have been feeling emboldened and entitled as humans have retreated more and more indoors. And one wild turkey named Gerald is making life hell for anyone who tries to picnic at Morcom Rose Garden.
Today in bar casualties from the pandemic we have Thieves Tavern and Blind Cat, the last two dive-y spots in what was once a four-bar empire owned and operated by Paul Bavaro.
As testing has become more widespread, we have expected to see jumps in the number of new cases. But apart from a one-day, 6-percent jump on May 5 when 104 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed, the numbers of new cases found have not jumped so significantly day to day.
Santa Clara County is beginning curbside retail today and entering Phase 2 behind the rest of the Bay Area, a new study looks at deceased COVID-19 patients' lungs, and a missing Rohnert Park teen has been found unharmed in Salinas.
A vehicle on fire caused one of the first major traffic jams of the pandemic on the Bay Bridge Friday morning, with SF-bound congestion backed up all the way to Emeryville.
Doctors at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek say they're seeing an unprecedented rise in suicides linked to lockdown orders, SF restaurateur Nick Bovis enters his guilty pleas, and artists take over SFMOMA's website.
The Santa Cruz Sheriff's Office on Thursday held a press conference identifying a a trio of young twentysomething men from Lancaster, in LA County, as well as a fourth man as suspects in the October 1 kidnapping and murder of Tushar Atre.
The theme of the new video from Lil Uzi Vert is deep-fake technology, and poking fun at fake news on social media.
