The SFPD vows “the consequences probably won’t be favorable” for would-be Hippie Hill 4/20 crashers, and local cannabis bigwigs are making efforts to keep stoners staying at home.
Hardcore Trump supporters, rural Republicans, and right-wing activists who enjoy bringing assault weapons to their demonstrations seem destined to be the next demographics to seal their own fates with this pandemic as protests against social-distancing orders ramp up.
A study published this week that examined the cases of coronavirus patients in China during different points in their infections provides evidence that — as has been suspected — the virus is highly contagious in asymptomatic or presymptomatic people, moreso than after symptoms set in.
A police pursuit that began in Oakland ended Thursday night in Richmond with an officer-involved shooting that left a kidnapping and murder suspect dead.
Starting at midnight last night, it became illegal for anyone to be in a public space in Sonoma County without a facial covering. And now starting on Wednesday, a similar order is taking effect in both Marin and Contra Costa counties.
The only people riding BART these days, for the most part, are essential workers like grocery store clerks and healthcare personnel, and they go to work earlier than most of us.
Oakland police warn that the new 'Slow Streets' program could encourage more sideshows, Marin County residents complain about PG&E maintenance shutoffs, and China has revised its COVID death toll by 50 percent.
Nancy Pelosi will be put to the test in negotiating more stimulus funds, a team at UCSF is now using CRISPR technology to make a next-generation coronavirus test, and an outbreak of COVID-19 and one worker death at a Safeway facility in Tracy could lead to supply-chain issues.
In a post published earlier today by Mark Zuckerberg himself, Facebook announced that company gatherings of 50 or more people are officially canceled until June of 2021.
There would be no fans in the stands, and under the “Arizona-Florida plan,” the Giants and A’s would be in the same division, and we would never play the Dodgers.
San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju is calling on the Sheriff's Department to release "as many individuals from the jail as possible" after an inmate at SF County Jail has turned up COVID-positive.
New gnomes are now appearing with coronavirus themes, attached to Oakland utility poles, seemingly by a new artist hoping to amuse their Oakland neighbors and inspired by another artist who did a series of these in 2012.
When all we have to amuse ourselves with right now besides 2000-piece puzzles are television and the internet, it seems sorely unfair that PG&E is pushing ahead with power shutoffs during shelter-in-place orders.
Anyone near the Golden Gate, Embarcadero, Treasure Island, or the Port of Oakland is going to get a bit of a low-key show today as one of the world's most massive container ships is arriving at the Port of Oakland.
There are both encouraging and concerning data points coming from the SF Department of Public Health on Thursday, with one of the former being the lowest one-day uptick in confirmed COVID-19 cases in the city in weeks.
Three men were injured in a drive-by shooting in Richmond, SF's city attorney discusses the commandeering of private buildings, and data shows that black Californians are dying of COVID-19 at a disproportionate rate.
Gov. Newsom announced a new fund to provide pandemic relief payments to undocumented people, Ayesha Curry is being sued, and the Alameda County DA's office is investigating the Hayward nursing home where now 13 elderly residents have died of COVID-19.
Ever felt a bit say, ripped off by a delivery-app order? A recent class-action lawsuit filed in New York claims companies like Bay Area-based Uber Eats and Postmates have “monopoly power,” unfairly charging diners inflated amounts for meals that might otherwise be cheaper.
The 49ers head office took to Instagram Wednesday to announce that they're auctioning off travel packages to fly to an away game with the team, have dinner with York and Lynch, and go down to the field with Shanahan and take photos with the players.
If Laredo, Texas is already fining people for not wearing facial coverings in public, why isn't San Francisco doing this?
Lyft is generating a little more revenue for drivers who’ve taken a hit, but the new program will cater to companies and nonprofits instead of individual delivery customers.
As President Trump persists in treating this pandemic as a PR and political crisis more than a health crisis, he announced on Tuesday that he's establishing a "council" of around 200 business leaders from around the country to help "advise" the White House as the U.S. attempts to "reopen."
Taking a cue from South Korea as San Francisco looks ahead to easing stay-at-home orders, the city is launching a new, aggressive contact-tracing program for every new COVID-positive case in the city limits.
There are currently around 80,000 cruise ship workers stranded aboard 100 vessels that have no passengers and that, in many cases, have been denied entry to most ports around the world.
Early Wednesday morning, as the shift change was happening at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, rows of police cruisers, fire engines, and ambulances lined up outside the hospital with lights flashing as area first responders applauded arriving nurses and doctors.
