Mayor Breed’s Arts Relief Program will dole out $2.5 million, possibly more if outside donors step up, which is still just a drop in the hat amidst months of cancelled events.
As predicted several weeks ago, Bay Area-based Gilead is at the center of the international conversation — and domestic desperation — about potential treatments for the novel coronavirus.
Many of us who lived through the post-9/11 months of 2001 were bracing for the inevitable ugliness of American racism to rear its head during the coronavirus crisis, and it has, only not just in America this time.
In a move that will hopefully make you love our fair city and its response to the coronavirus crisis, San Francisco is providing free child care for local healthcare workers in 12-hour shifts that reflect the shifts that nurses and doctors tend to work.
The latest development in the painfully slow bankruptcy clownshow of Pacific Gas & Electric is a proposed settlement in a case brought by the Butte County district attorney and county officials.
While testing sites have been getting established across the Bay Area over the last ten days, the city of Hayward has just opened what we believe is the first fully open, no-referral-required testing site that is free to the public.
The Grand Princess passengers are starting to leave their quarantine at Travis AFB today, UCSF is accepting donations of N95 masks, and a healthy 26-year-old in New York describes her severe case of the coronavirus and hospitalization.
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A substantial number of Bay Area locals sought out Marin County green spaces Saturday for a much-needed break from sheltering in place. However, those hiking trails and other footpaths were soon packed tight with people, raising concerns over proper social distancing.
Scoot, Lime, and Jump are choosing to stop all operations in San Francisco over the COVID-19 pandemic. Of SF’s four e-scooter rental companies, only Ford Motor Company-owned Spin continues to run, promising to clean their scooters more often to provide "a safe ride."
Governor Newsom held a live-streamed press conference Saturday to give an update on California's current response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The news included an increase in ventilator production, plans to make COVID-19 testing more available, and an extension to the ban on evictions.
San Francisco crossed the 100-person mark in the count of coronavirus patients between Saturday and Sunday, marking the biggest single-day jump in this crisis to date in the city.
National Guard soldiers were called into Sacramento to help food banks deliver sustenance, the beloved Mission District Italian restaurant Locanda is now officially closed, and Facebook donates over two million pieces of medical supplies to various Bay Area hospitals.
The Ferry Plaza Farmers Market today was a husk of its former self: sparse, somewhat silent, and eerily still. But San Franciscans still came out — albeit in smaller droves — to get their locally sourced produce, making sure to practice proper social distancing all the while.
SF police have taken a more relaxed tone on ticketing people breaking the now Bay Area-wide shelter-in-place order; thus far, not a single citation for violating the mandate has been issued. San Jose law enforcement, however, has other plans beginning Monday.
The deadly shooting of a twenty-something man — near 21st and Shotwell streets — Wednesday evening became the second suspected homicide in the Mission District this past week, alone.
Five days into the shelter-in-place order, San Francisco police have yet to cite a single person for violating the command, opting to educate the public about the order rather than issue tickets.
Concerns over the coronavirus are pushing Bay Area churches to embrace online services, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake recorded near Lake Tahoe rattled parts of NorCal around 6:30 p.m. last night, and SF restaurant group Back of the House has laid off 1,127 employees.
The first of what could be many nightclub deaths during this pandemic is Slim's on 11th Street, PG&E has agreed to potentially sell itself to the state, and Newsom has pulled all toll-takers off of Bay Area bridges.
Led by Chancellor Sam Hawgood and UCSF Health CEO Mark Laret, the online town hall meeting Friday afternoon — watched by more than 6,500 people — gave insights into how UCSF Health is making COVID-19 tests more available.
A pair of ER doctors on the front lines in Boston have been answering questions on Reddit and they say that while healthcare workers certainly need the masks more, regular people can protect themselves in other ways from the aerosolized virus.
Wunderkind engineer Anthony Levandowski pled guilty to stealing Google’s trade secrets on his way out the door, but it’s hard to think justice has been done when he got let off on 32 of 33 counts.
A police chase following an apparent carjacking and a subsequent crash has led to three lanes being blocked on the Bay Bridge. And yes, there are actually quite a few people still trying to go back and forth across the Bay.
The latest Disney-Pixar animated release, Onward, is one of dozens of scheduled Hollywood releases this spring that are getting impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. And in this case, Disney's decided to let it go straight to streaming.
Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger and his wife Kaitlyn just launched a site that lets you see all the local restaurants that are selling gift cards to help them survive the current social-distancing lockdown.
The city of San Francisco is preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases, and is trying to protect both the homeless population and the families of healthcare workers through the use of currently empty hotel rooms.
