SF’s waning foot traffic amid the COVID-19 crisis recently forced the San Francisco Media Company to stop producing print for SF Weekly and SF Evergreen, in lieu of adequate advertisement revenue.
A class action lawsuit gets Zoom to admit they give your data to Facebook, just as the FBI warns that hackers are having a field day on the video conferencing platform.
Among the construction that's been deemed "non-essential" under new public health orders are new office buildings, and any residential projects in SF where developers chose to pay into the city's affordable housing fund rather than build affordable units onsite.
Several extraordinary stories have come out in the last couple of days, made all the more extraordinary amid extraordinary times, about cruise ships that are still sailing the seas despite everything everyone should have learned well over 30 days ago about cruise ships being coronavirus vectors.
Experts are increasingly acknowledging that the rapid global spread of the coronavirus is due to how easily it's transmitted by those who show no symptoms — and yes it could be through exhaling.
Set aside those dreams of joyriding on an empty highway and testing the limits of your car without consequence during shelter-in-place orders. The CHP wants you to know they're writing a lot of tickets.
A man had to be rescued from a cliff near the Point Bonita Lighthouse, the SF Board of Supervisors approved a $369K settlement for journalist Bryan Carmody, and Wimbledon has been canceled for the first time since WWII.
Amtrak's 'California Zephyr' service suspended after an employee tests positive for the coronavirus, a local food bank is starting pop-up pantries to address need, and a Santa Rosa police detective has died from COVID-19.
Still unsure whether Burning Man will even happen in 2020, given everything, organizers announced Tuesday that the original scheduled dates for registration and ticket-buying are being postponed to an as-yet-undetermined future date.
Under newly released orders from the San Francisco Department of Public Health and five other Bay Area counties, the current stay-at-home guidelines are extended through May 3, and there are some new restrictions as well, including no funerals with more than ten attendees.
Wine.com reports spirits orders are up 400 percent during stay-at-home orders, as bottoms up is the top activity in these shut in times.
An early morning accident Tuesday at the Port of Oakland has left one 59-year-old dockworker dead.
The livestream is back for nesting season at the peregrine falcon nest atop PG&E's downtown SF headquarters at 77 Beale Street, and four eggs are getting ready to hatch!
What was being called a double shooting last week was actually a murder-suicide involving a young San Francisco couple at a Union Square hotel, as we now learn from the SFPD.
While Las Vegas forces its homeless to sleep six feet apart in a parking lot while 150,000 hotel rooms sit empty, SF is so far doing slightly better and providing a roof over the heads of some unsheltered people, courtesy of the swanky Bay Club location at Fifth and Brannan.
Defying stay-at-home orders and clearly unconcerned about spreading the coronavirus, around 400 to 450 people gathered in East Oakland Saturday to watch an illegal sideshow in an intersection.
The city is inspecting 500 residential hotels for public health compliance, the San Mateo County Event Center is being converted into an emergency hospital, and President Trump continues to attack women who challenge him.
Santa Clara County just saw its biggest single-day rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases so far, attorneys for Ghost Ship defendant Derrick Almena are trying to get him released due to the virus threat, and federal and state officials are bracing for a Laguna Honda hospital outbreak.
Grammy Award-winning Bay Area artist Fantastic Negrito has just put out a music video for this song "Chocolate Samurai," which is dedicated to those of us in isolation, and has the timely refrain, "Have you lost your mind yet?!"
I'm sure we're not alone here at SFist among Bay Area residents hoping and praying that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who just turned 80 last week — hasn't been exposed to the coronavirus. But now it sounds like she might have been on Friday.
The county’s director of Emergency Management took his family on an ill-advised trip to a closed beach this weekend, and worse yet, posted the photos to Facebook to ensure maximum public outrage.
As San Francisco Unified School District tries to navigate the statewide shutdown of schools, it's now going to provide computers to students who don't have their own devices at home to aid in online learning.
I had a strong feeling that inventive chef Anthony Strong was going to go his own way during this pandemic, under the same takeout- and delivery-only orders as the rest of the city's restaurants. And he has.
Following in the footsteps of Instacart gig-workers who are staging a virtual strike today and refusing to accept new orders, some Whole Foods workers are calling for their cohort to call in sick on Tuesday, March 31 amid a pandemic that has left them on the frontlines of essential businesses.
A choir practice that took place in Washington three weeks ago turned out to be a super-spreading event in which 45 out of 60 people became infected with the coronavirus, even though no one was showing symptoms and no one touched each other.
