You know how eating in a hospital cafeteria is almost universally an unappetizing and unsettling experience? Well, get ready for the hopefully temporary future of bars and restaurants in California.
The Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center opened Monday, and we have a few reports on its first three days of operations.
James Damore, the widely reviled former Google engineer whose 2017 firing became a cause célèbre for conservatives and far-right pundits who hate diversity quotas, has abruptly dropped his lawsuit against the company, possibly because of some quiet settlement.
Golden State Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr has emerged from his isolation to give a shoutout to essential workers in the Bay Area — and he's sporting a daddy beard that might shock you.
Governor Gavin Newsom on Thursday laid out some grim financial realities for the state as it faces far less revenue and far higher expenses in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The sense of unfairness among small retail business owners around the Bay Area has been growing as the initial virus panic fades, and after eight weeks in which big-box retail stores and grocers like Walmart and Whole Foods have been allowed to remain open, often selling "non-essential" goods.
Nick Bovis, the local restaurateur who was arrested alongside the former director of Public Works in a federal corruption investigation in January, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges and is cooperating with investigators.
SF bar owners remain in limbo waiting for "Phase 3," CVS is getting ready to open 1,000 coronavirus testing sites this month, and Marin County will be joining SF and San Mateo County in reopening most retail for curbside sales on Monday.
The FBI says Chinese hackers are trying to steal coronavirus research from the U.S., Uber is requiring face masks for everyone starting Monday, and a herd of 200 goats got loose last night and ran around a San Jose subdivision.
Facebook is settling a lawsuit brought by third-party content moderators who say they were traumatized after being exposed to graphic imagery of violence, child sex, and more working for Facebook.
Whether you currently smoke or you previously did and quit, you appear to be likelier to have a bad case of COVID-19 according to a new study by UCSF researchers.
Gavin has strong words for PG&E (but evasive words for Elon Musk’s defiance) as wildfire season is underway in the age of coronavirus.
In her daily press briefing, Mayor London Breed said Wednesday that SF's retail businesses could go ahead and reopen on May 18 for curbside sales. But prior to issuing a similar order for San Mateo County, the outspoken health officer there has some grim words of caution.
A 26-year-old man who was just arrested in connection with a homicide that occurred in the Portola neighborhood last week was previously arrested and charged as a juvenile in a Muni robbery that made headlines a decade ago.
Healthcare workers never really asked to be honored with wasted jet fuel and loud, gratuitous shows of military aeronautical might. But that's what's happening this morning care of the California Air National Guard.
Following a couple of contentious days in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk was loudly complaining on social media and asking to be arrested, Alameda County authorities have relented and said they will allow Tesla's Fremont plant to reopen for production under a new safety plan.
Hopefully it's not a sign of more to come, but there were two, unrelated freeway shootings within two hours of each other on Tuesday afternoon, one in Santa Clara County and one in Oakland, each of which left a person injured.
The Santa Clara County health officer warns that the county isn't near Stage 2 of reopening, a fourth inmate at SF County Jail tested positive upon booking, and Paul Manafort just got an early release from prison.
The Geary Boulevard pedestrian bridge is coming down later this month, Alameda County is stepping up its war of words with Elon Musk, and the Zuckerberg-Chans just donated tidy sums to La Ciccia and The Liberties in their 'hood.
A Los Angeles County health official says stay-at-home orders will stick through August 1, while Twitter employees just got a pass to work at home through forever.
Remember the messy corruption scandal that was roiling SF City Hall before the pandemic arrived? Well, it hasn't gone away, and today federal prosecutors unsealed bank fraud charges against former SF Building Inspection Commission member Rodrigo Santos.
Though no date has yet been announced for when California restaurants — in some counties — may begin to reopen and start dine-in service again, Governor Newsom today unveiled some initial guidelines.
San Francisco's soufflé mecca since 1979, Cafe Jacqueline, has been shuttered along with many other restaurants throughout this pandemic. But now we're learning that the stalwart, 83-year-old chef-owner, Jacqueline Margulis, recently fell ill with an infection — not COVID-19.
A suspect is in custody for the second time in 24 hours after three apparently unprovoked assaults at a Safeway store in Fremont on Monday afternoon.
As the pandemic has shifted Uber's business thinking in the direction of more food delivery, the company has reportedly made an offer to acquire GrubHub, the app-based meal delivery rival of Uber Eats and parent company of the Seamless, MenuPages, and Eat24 brands.
