Many on-demand delivery companies are cleaning up as the shut-in economy surges, but the rideshare industry is taking a hit, and gig workers are forced to put in extra work under high-risk conditions.
The staff at Tartine's four main Bay Area locations are taking a vote this week on whether to join the ILWU, and both some local restaurateurs and some on the staff are wondering aloud whether the operation can survive unionization.
Noon came and went on Wednesday without a change in the number of confirmed coronavirus cases from the San Francisco Department of Public Health. This should cautiously be seen as good news?
San Francisco's Board of Supervisors have proposed a package of legislation that is aimed at helping workers, renters, and small businesses who may be affected by the economic downturn linked to the coronavirus epidemic.
Mayor London Breed is said to be issuing an order today that will ban all large gatherings of 1,000 people or more in San Francisco for at least the next two weeks — including Warriors games.
Amazon just canceled a big Web Services conference in SF, a 3.8M earthquake shook Truckee last night, and Alaska Airlines is talking about curtailing flights and exiting some markets after a major drop in bookings.
Coachella has definitely been postponed until October and the lineup is unconfirmed, another COVID-19 case in Alameda County is connected to the Grand Princess, and SF's Public Defender is pushing to release all pre-trial inmates who might be vulnerable to the coronavirus.
Millions of Californians lost cell phone and landline service during PG&E’s premeditated wildfire-prevention blackouts. Now, California utility regulators and two state senators are pushing to make sure we’re not in for a repeat of that next time around.
The verdict is in after very brief deliberations in the Nia Wilson murder trial in Oakland, and it's guilty on all counts for 29-year-old John Lee Cowell.
They’re only in the Richmond District, with a human safety driver onboard, but the Uber self-driving cars are back in town starting today.
South Park Cafe, the popular techie hub and South Park lunch spot that just reopened last summer thanks to credit card startup Brex, has closed following a positive COVID-19 test in an employee.
The upcoming season at BroadwaySF features a bunch of big tours coming to us from the last season of Broadway, and there's more of them now that 'Hamilton' is closing at the end of May and freeing up the Orpheum Theatre again.
After 11 new cases were reported in just two days, it's a relief that the SF Department of Public Health only added a single new confirmed case of COVID-19 on Tuesday. The total number of cases in city residents stands at 14 as of noon.
After stopping dinner service in January, it seemed possible that chef Aaron London's casual counter-service spot AL's Deli was going to return with a new nighttime concept. But now it's gone for good.
After the county marked its first death from the coronavirus on Monday, Santa Clara health officials announced that all "mass gatherings" of 1,000 or more people would be banned for the next three weeks, at a minimum.
United Airlines announced in a note to frequent travelers Monday that it is ramping up and changing its cleaning and inflight service procedures to address the coronavirus outbreak — and encourage more people to get on planes, which, good luck.
That rain that ABC 7 said was coming isn't actually coming, Lowell High School remains closed through Tuesday, Monterey is banning cruise ships, and today's Michigan primary is make-or-break for Bernie.
The high-probability guess that Coachella might get cancelled this year goes back more than a week, and after the cancellation of South by Southwest it became more of a screaming rumor.
Closing arguments in the Nia Wilson murder trial, the city of SF is pledging $5M to help protect the homeless from coronavirus, Grand Princess passengers begin being evacuated into quarantine, Washington State has to somehow turn up for a primary tomorrow.
Planning Department documents show the church-turned roller rink has plans to transform into “36 group housing rooms,” which could be badly needed housing, or could be a giant Airbnb scheme.
Ittoryu Gozu (201 Spear Street) is taking a bit longer than expected to reemerge following a New Year's Eve fire that damaged its all-important hearth.
A new report by SF's Controller's Office shows that individual cannabis retailers are seeing declining sales in the two years since full recreational legalization — and that's due both to there being more permitted stores, and the still flourishing illegal market.
A suspect has been taken into custody in Sonoma County in connection with the October 2016 murder of Sonoma State University student Kirk Kimberly.
Federal, state, and local officials have been avoiding talking about lockdowns in any American city, and a lockdown here is likely not going to look like the lockdown in Wuhan, but what could it look like?
As coronavirus panic truly takes hold in San Francisco this week and tens of thousands of downtown office workers are telecommuting, the Muni Metro was near empty during the prime time of 8:30 this morning.
