President Trump announced that you can stop paying your student loans for now, Congress passed legislation making coronavirus testing free, and London Breed slammed Trump for his "Chinese virus" comments.
Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statement saying 56 percent of California could be infected in 8 weeks without isolation measures, and he's seeking $1 billion in emergency aid to prepare for a surge in cases.
These are extraordinary times, and calls are going out nationwide to release low-level offenders from jails so that they are not unnecessarily exposed to the coronavirus.
The unsung heroes of the ongoing coronavirus crisis are the nurses, grocery clerks, and delivery drivers slogging through amidst angry customers and precarious conditions.
Now it looks like Mike Pence's promise to get every passenger from the Grand Princess cruise ship tested for the novel coronavirus has not been kept.
San Francisco got called out this week by CNN's Jake Tapper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta for allowing everyone to continue on their daily outdoor exercise routines and stroll along the Embarcadero during the city's shelter-in-place order.
Los Gatos-based Netflix and other streaming platforms are being urged by a European Union commissioner to temporarily stop streaming content in HD due to the unprecedented levels of internet usage occurring as multiple countries go on lockdown.
Muttville Senior Dog Rescue has had to put 84 dogs into foster homes this week as it temporarily shuts down its adoption events and Alabama Street headquarters, and founder Sherri Franklin is foster 12 dogs at her own home.
The State Department is about to tell all Americans abroad to come home, Tesla has cut its workforce in Fremont by 75 percent, and Tulsi Gabbard has finally dropped out of the presidential race.
Golden Gate Bridge tolls plummet and bridge officials now want emergency funding, Newsom offers $150M in emergency funding to protect the homeless, and London Breed pushed back on Jake Tapper's calling out of San Francisco for not isolating ourselves enough.
Two days into San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, it’s as clear as ever that our local nightlife community needs our help. Yesterday, some respected SF LGTBQ figures rallied together to launch the city's Queer Nightlife Fund (QNF), which will offer monetary aid to that affected cohort.
The dispensaries are back open! At least, most of them are — here’s a complete list of which marijuana dispensaries are open, closed, and who will deliver to your doorstep.
The one holdout after eight Bay Area counties have issued similar orders, the Solano County health officer, Dr. Bela Matyas, is taking a less prescriptive approach.
In the first of what could be many eulogies for Bay Area restaurants, the owners of the Delfina Restaurant Group say they have laid off many of their 300 employees and they've likely shuttered Locanda for good.
Napa County has issued its own shelter-in-place order for residents, despite there not yet being a confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county. And as of Wednesday, we're learning that BottleRock is being rescheduled to October, to the week before Coachella.
Bay Area grocery stores and others are beginning to do their part in allowing senior citizens to shop free and clear of younger people who could be infected with the coronavirus.
The Fox News contributor who's filling in on Rush Limbaugh's radio show just did his predictable best to begin the disparagement of San Francisco regarding the coronavirus and our current shelter-in-place order, blaming it all on gay people.
CNN's Jake Tapper took aim at SF on the broadcast last night, showing a live feed of people strolling and jogging on the Embarcadero as if it were a normal day, and asking Dr. Sanjay Gupta if this was at all acceptable.
Whole Foods is launching senior shopping hours, starting at 8 a.m.; Newsom says schools across the state may stay closed until summer; and the coffeeshop scene across SF is pretty decimated.
Sonoma County looks to be joining the shelter-in-place order, possibly by midnight, the SFPD says it may resort to citations as a last resort if people don't cooperate with the order, and the SF Board of Supervisors may work to reopen pot dispensaries.
The more you spend into the local economy via takeout and delivery (as opposed to just shopping at Safeway and Whole Foods), the more chance there is that San Francisco will emerge recognizable from all this, and not with a city full of vacant businesses.
When this all gets more real for people, you may need a little more relaxing distraction to watch from home like the Monterey Bay Aquarium's live feeds.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing more than 900 hotels statewide to house the homeless and halt the spread of coronavirus, while Supervisor Dean Preston has a similar plan for the scandal-plagued 555 Fulton development.
We're going to be hearing a lot of stories in the coming weeks about how industries are facing the COVID-19 pandemic and feeling its vast, unknowable economic impacts.
Hours before San Francisco's shelter-in-place order was enacted, a nonchalant stroll through the Mission District proved eerily quiet, void of heavy foot traffic, and peppered with signs explaining why various restaurants or businesses were closed amid city-wide coronavirus concerns.
