Shelter-in-place may be effective for many San Franciscans, but the curve is hardly being flattened at numerous single-room-occupancy hotels where more flare-ups are being reported.
The SFPD says it has arrested and charged four suspects in connection with two robberies — one armed, and one involving an assault — in different neighborhoods in San Francisco on Sunday.
On Saturday at noon, Tony Bennett will be attempting to get all of San Francisco to pop out of their windows and onto their balconies to sing along to the city anthem he made famous, "I Left My Heart in San Francisco."
In a microcosm of what is going on at San Francisco restaurants that remain open for delivery and takeout, beloved brunch spot Zazie in Cole Valley finds itself losing too much money every week to stay open during the pandemic lockdown.
The Presidio Trust just announced an experimental road closure that will create a continuous, 4.5-mile, vehicle-free paved trail for pedestrians and bicyclists where they can practice social distancing. But don't get any ideas about driving over there.
Two people were arrested in Pacifica in connection with the fentanyl-related death of a Montara man last year, Marshawn Lynch was passing out free face masks, and three have died so far in a nursing home COVID outbreak in Oakland.
Gilead's much talked about antiviral drug remdesivir had a setback in a Chinese study and the company's stock tumbled, four elderly residents at an SF nursing home have now died of COVID-19, and a BART board member says they need to start talking about cutting hours and possibly jobs.
Details about the case we just learned about Wednesday, a posthumously tested San Jose woman who appears now to be the very first death from COVID-19 in the United States, are now coming in.
How will these air demonstration squads honor frontline essential and healthcare workers? By wasting $60,000 an hour over SF and at least 30 U.S. cities to “champion national unity.”
The Major League Baseball season is officially still postponed, not canceled, so no one has talked about any refunds yet — and games still might get played to empty stadiums with ticketholders credited for next season.
Officials at several Bay Area law enforcement agencies are bristling at the statewide emergency orders to lower jail populations during the COVID-19 pandemic, with at least one suggesting that releasing some suspects presents a greater public health threat than keeping them jailed.
Like many other events this year, the AIDS Walk can't go on as scheduled due to public health concerns and the ongoing pandemic. But unlike many other events, this one has its roots in another virus pandemic that shook San Francisco to its core.
Another day, another potentially revised timeline in the U.S. chapter of this pandemic. The latest one comes from a Northeastern University estimate of how the coronavirus began spreading undetected in several major American cities in February.
A judge is rejecting a call by three SoCal churches to reopen, Marin's health officer says social distancing in the Bay Area may have saved 40,000 lives, and the CHP says it's seen an 87-percent jump in speeding tickets.
An eviction protection ordinance just passed in Contra Costa County, BART confirms $250M in stimulus funding, and Gilead's drug remdesivir continues to show promise as a COVID-19 treatment.
Governor Newsom announced Wednesday that California hospitals will soon be allowed to perform “scheduled surgeries” as the state’s health care system remains intact amid influxes of COVID-19 patients. Coronavirus testing is also expected to grow significantly by the end of the month.
Since 40 percent of you out there have roommates, with others in family households, we’ve got some house rules to keep your domicile from becoming a germ pile.
Restaurateurs hated all delivery apps and ghost kitchens just a couple months ago, but now the ghost kitchen model may be looking better and better for restaurants trying to stay in business and expand their delivery footprint in the region.
The number of hospitalizations associated with the coronavirus has been decreasing steadily in the Bay Area for a week, however that good news comes after the region counted its 200th confirmed death from the virus on Monday, and is now counting about 20 new deaths per day.
If you're staying up until all hours during the pandemic, or if you're an early riser, you may have already caught some of the Lyrid meteor shower. But the first shooting star extravaganza of the spring is going on for another few days, and you may as well get some joy out of it.
A recently released study by researchers in China, examining an outbreak of COVID-19 that occurred among some related and unrelated diners in a restaurant in Guangzhou in January, suggests that air conditioning in an enclosed space can help spread the coronavirus — but not to everyone in a room.
One person was injured and two women and a dog were killed Tuesday evening after an SUV plummeted off of a 200-foot cliff in the Potrero Hill neighborhood.
A new piece has emerged in the incomplete puzzle of when and how the novel coronavirus, a.k.a. SARS-CoV-2, arrived in the U.S., and it is bound to shift how researchers and the Centers for Disease Control see their timelines for this pandemic.
An arrest was made in the December theft of an SF woman's dog outside a grocery store, PG&E CEO Bill Johnson says he's retiring, and that standoff at Glide ended last night around midnight with the suspect safely taken into custody.
Netflix has picked up 16 million new global subscribers, the LA antibody prevalence study suggests even more people have had COVID-19, and San Mateo County authorities questioned hundreds of people on beaches if they had traveled more than 5 miles to get there.
