Due to coronavirus lockdown and the disappearance of its staple catering business, Specialty's Cafe & Bakery is shutting down permanently as of Tuesday. So get your cookie fix now or never.
PG&E stock seems like pretty curious compensation for 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter, but victims do seem in favor of the deal so they can finally get some renumeration.
In a misguided and possibly fictional effort to guard against symptoms "in case" he contracts COVID-19, President Trump just told reporters on Monday that he's been taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine for about ten days now.
A Southern California woman with a penchant for believing conspiracy theories ill-advisedly video-recorded an argument she had with a grocery store manager about her inalienable right to shop without a face mask.
Twelve days after announcing the slashing of 3,700 jobs, Uber says it is laying off another 3,000 workers and closing one of its San Francisco offices entirely.
The news of a confirmed effective vaccine, while still many months away, has from the start of this pandemic been the awaited panacea for economic recovery. And some very preliminary but promising news about one such vaccine has just arrived, and caused the stock market to bounce.
With seven Bay Area counties besides Solano and Napa reporting COVID-19 data over the weekend, Sunday marked the first day since late March that there were no new deaths confirmed from the virus in the region.
A shooting in Antioch leaves one dead, the Tesla plant is resuming full production today, and retail businesses in three Bay Area counties are reopening for curbside sales today.
San Francisco's queer seniors are reeling from the pandemic, as many continue struggling to find financial respite — for some, even sustenance — amid shelter-in-place. But a live-streamed drag show in support of them this coming Friday aims to offer both levity and monetary relief.
A resident of Butte County tested positive for COVID-19 on the Monday after they attended a Mother's Day church service with around 180 others, causing alarm bells for rural California counties that are reopening ahead of more urban ones.
Veritas Investments, SF's largest corporate landlord, was recently granted a $3.6M Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan by the U.S. government's Small Business Administration (SBA) — funds they plan on repaying, which will help bolster some of the city's most vulnerable small businesses.
The Salvation Army held a drive-through food pantry in the Dogpatch yesterday, an SF Supervisor is calling for city police to better enforce safety violations after Friday’s crowds at Howells Bar, and it looks like SF and Oakland's “slow streets" initiatives aren't going away anytime soon.
SF's first "Safe Sleeping Village" opened this week at the Civic Center and was met with a lukewarm reception; it allows for only 50 tents, each set behind a flimsy fence line. Now, there's a second one in the works that will soon occupy the idle McDonald’s across from Golden Gate Park.
The Giants parking lot at Oracle Park — Seawall Lot 337 — was transformed into a drive-through food pantry yesterday afternoon by the San Francisco-Marin Food Bank, a first of its kind for the city.
An "atmospheric river" is expected to bring inches of rain to the Bay Area this weekend, the City of Oakland is cracking down on large gatherings around Lake Merritt, and crowds congregated outside the Marina District’s Howells Bar last night — with few face masks in sight.
Two suspects have been arrested for an Outer Mission shootout last month, a Chinese study suggests that outdoor transmissions of the coronavirus are very rare, and a Carmel restaurant owner refuses to keep his business closed and now faces criminal charges.
Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties are all talking about reopening stores and restaurants to some degree, yet none meet the requirement of no COVID-19 deaths in two weeks.
There's another addition to what will likely, sadly be an extensive list of bar and restaurant casualties from the pandemic: seven-year-old Mikkeller Bar.
While second homeowners may be allowed to stop through if not entirely welcome in the Tahoe area, tourists are not, and anyone trying to quietly Airbnb their house might face fines as well.
To commemorate San Francisco Pride’s golden anniversary, the GLBT Historical Society and SFAC Galleries are partnering to bring "50 Years of Pride," a collection of 100 photographs taken over the five decades of SF Pride, to the masses — completely free and available online.
We've watched as Trump has treated a global pandemic with the same casual dishonesty as he would his own poll numbers, so it should shock no one that the White House is already maneuvering to deflate the American death toll from the coronavirus in order to protect the president's reelection chances.
The SFMTA just announced that it will be boosting the frequency of buses on eight of the "core" transit lines currently in operation, in order to increase the ability of passengers to socially distance themselves from each other.
As part of his ongoing philanthropic effort to distribute $1.5 billion of his own money during the pandemic crisis, Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey announced Friday that he's giving $10 million to the Oakland Unified School District to provide laptops and internet access to schoolchildren.
Oakland is banning weekend parking around Lake Merritt, Sonoma County is reopening more businesses today, and locals in Fort Bragg are divided about wanting tourists wandering through.
PG&E is appealing some strict probation conditions from a judge, the Stern Grove Festival has been canceled, and Trump has INFURIATINGLY just said in a speech that COVID-19 testing is "overrated" because it makes the U.S.'s numbers go up.
