A week after we learned of layoffs at Juul Labs that were set to slash nearly a third of the company's workforce, news arrives that Juul is officially moving its headquarters out of San Francisco to Washington, D.C.
While experts have largely agreed that the introduction of SARS-CoV-2 on the West Coast likely came from China, the strain that is gaining dominance in parts of the U.S. and elsewhere in the world appears to be a more contagious one that mutated as it spread in Italy.
More than half of positive COVID-19 cases in Solano County have been found in the city of Vallejo, and that proportion may rise after an outbreak has occurred at a 166-bed
Doctors in the Bay Area are learning quickly how to treat COVID-19 patients and pivoting techniques, Uber is potentially looking to purchase Lime, and the young man who was caught in crossfire on 14th Street Friday succumbed to his wounds.
UC Hastings and a merchant association have filed suit against the city over conditions in the Tenderloin, Ghost Ship defendant Derick Almena has been released on bond, and Mayor London Breed is threatening to close Dolores Park if people don't stop crowding there.
We now have the first data to come out of mass testing of Mission District residents and workers last week, and out of 4,160 people who were tested both for COVID-19 infections and for antibodies, just over 2 percent tested positive for an active infection.
Bookstores, florists, and clothing stores are among the kinds of retail businesses that get to open in California later this week as part of a Phase 2 in a four-phased reopening of the economy.
“Chief Quilt Coordinator” Gert McMullin is sewing 80 masks per day out of unused AIDS Quilt fabric that dates back to the 1980s.
Anyone who has to leave their house to work in a grocery store, hardware store, pharmacy, restaurant, or now garden store or nursery can now go and get a free COVID-19 test at one of the city's two walk-up testing sites.
SF Fire Chief Jeanine Nicholson, whose paramedic teams often interact with the city's homeless population, says that three-quarters of the homeless people in a tent encampment that recently sprang up along one side of the Asian Art Museum are new arrivals from out of town.
The next iOS update for the iPhone is set to include new software being developed with Google that uses Bluetooth signals to help identify if you've been in close contact with someone who's tested positive for COVID-19.
A 22-year-old Twitter employee walking home from Dolores Park on Friday evening was struck by a bullet, possibly in crossfire during a drive-by shooting, and is now hospitalized on life support.
A teenage boy was killed in a motorcycle accident in American Canyon, a stay-at-home order protest happened in Vacaville, and various businesses like garden stores are reopening this week.
COVID-19 has surely hindered San Francisco’s queer nightlife community, leaving bartenders sans pay and prompting entertainers to embrace Twitch. In response, the SF Queer Nightlife Fund has been amassing donations to aid those workers and will begin distributing some $160K to accepted applicants.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and Mayor Breed announced Friday that the City will soon order all 21 of its skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) to have their staff and residents tested for COVID-19, a part of SF's "next phase" to expand coronavirus testing.
Former Oakland A’s pitcher Matt Keough passes away at 64, two-inch-long "murder hornets" from East Asia arrive in Washington state, and the Marin County town of Bolinas has tested virtually all of its residents for coronavirus — with no active infections reported.
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco is welcoming submissions from creatives across all nine Bay Area counties for its upcoming exhibit, “The de Young Open,” with chosen pieces being included as part of the de Young Museum’s 125th-anniversary showcase later this year.
According to San Francisco police, two men were wounded in a shooting near 14th and Guerrero streets around 8:22 p.m. Friday night, with one of them currently in critical condition and the other recovering from non-life-threatening injuries.
New polling shows that 30 percent of Californians oppose stay-at-home orders while 70 percent are comfortable keeping this up — and predictably, Trump supporters are mostly in the former camp.
More than 7,000 PG&E customers sheltering in place in SF lost power last night, Costco stores will now limit the number of meat products customers can purchase, and a 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook Puerto Rico earlier today.
The California EDD is still having trouble processing applications for pandemic assistance, PG&E is purging three-quarters of its board, and rumors are swirling that Uber will move its headquarters to Dallas.
As COVID-19 hammers the unhoused population, two renegade women have occupied a Castro house that’s been sitting on the market for years. A police melee ensued.
Governor Newsom is staring down protesters, law enforcement personnel, and sun worshipers in often-conservative Orange County today as he pledges that revised "Phase 2" sheltering orders are on their way early next week.
Remember the potential "car-mageddon" we all worried about on Highway 101 near Alemany Circle before the coronavirus pandemic upended our collective existence? Well, Caltrans wisely decided to get a head start on the deck-replacement project, and now it's just about finished!
What appears to be several hundred if not 1,000 or more protesters have gathered outside the State House in Sacramento as part of a series of "Reopen California" protests happening today.
