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.
Andres is cementing his reputation for responding to national disasters, tweeting that his nonprofit World Central Kitchen arrived Sunday evening to prepare and deliver food to the passengers on board the Grand Princess cruise ship after it docks at the Port of Oakland today.
SF firefighters successfully put out a one-alarm fire in Dolores Heights on Sunday evening, but it wasn't without some drama according to some neighbors.
The annual northern migration of gray whales is happening in significant numbers off the Northern California coast, and park rangers at the Point Reyes National Seashore counted 209 sightings between Friday and Sunday.
The U.S. State Department issued a broad warning against cruise travel, a 5.8M earthquake strikes off the coast near Eureka, and an Oakland-based dog trainer was just convicted of animal cruelty.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) announced six more cases of COVID-19 Saturday, bringing the total number of infections in the city to eight. Also, as a means to hinder the advance of coronavirus, SF has blocked all "non-essential" public gatherings at "city-owned facilities."
In an oceanic game of musical chairs, the coronavirus-stricken cruise ship will now dock at the Port of Oakland on Monday, allowing 3,000-plus souls to touchdown on firm ground — before being shuttled off to various health care facilities for mandatory quarantine and appropriate medical treatment.
The "Stupid Love" singer dined at Dominique Crenn's Cow Hollow eatery last night, Senator Kamala Harris endorsed Joe Biden for president, and the City of Santa Cruz just confirmed their first case of COVID-19.
Cancel culture is taking on a new connotation as popular events — like Facebook F8, South by Southwest (SXSW), and, soon... maybe Coachella — scrap their plans over fears about the spread of COVID-19. Now, we can add SF's St. Patrick’s Day Parade and Sunday Streets to that ballooning list.
To the giddy delight of introverts across the seven-by-seven, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) has now recommended “social distancing" as a precautionary measure to thwart the spread of COVID-19.
Stanford dropped all in-person classes amidst concerns over the novel coronavirus, all 3,533 people aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship will now be tested for COVID-19, and a thief was crushed to death in East Bay trying to steal the catalytic converter off a car.
More cruise-related virus cases appear in Placer and Contra Costa counties, Marin County is monitoring 11 recent cruise passengers, and UCSF Parnassus is preparing for 'Contagion'-style triage of new patients.
It was apparently too soon to tell Thursday if more rain would come to end this parched streak we've had in the Bay Area, but now it looks like a huge storm system headed to Southern California will bring us several more days of rain as well.
Vice President Mike Pence was the one to announce the cruise ship cases, saying one test remained inconclusive — and the ship is now headed to an unnamed "non-commercial port."
Museums around the Bay Area are either temporarily closing or curtailing some exhibits as fears of the novel coronavirus spreading widely take hold.
In case you were one of the many who had a ticket to Austin next week and were planning to go to South By Southwest, you're not now.
The bankrupt utility needs $57.6 billion to pull itself out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Investors would probably hook them up, but exasperated state regulators may put the kibosh on it.
Health officials in Contra Costa County say that there are three new cases of covid-19 there, two of which were passengers aboard the Grand Princess cruise ship when it sailed to Mexico last month.
Mad Dog in the Fog is closing after more than 30 years in its home at 530 Haight Street, and the owner promises that the popular sports bar will be relocating.
The City of San Francisco on Thursday launched a new text alert system specifically for updates on the spread of covid-19, now that SF has claimed its first two confirmed cases.
A pair of inmates from San Joaquin County Jail escaped from custody Thursday morning in San Francisco and they remain on the loose.
A Sunnyvale man who had been on the same cruise ship suddenly died Thursday, Prop E is set to severely curtail office development, and BART and Muni are doing a lot of scrubbing and disinfecting.
BART was experiencing major delays after a small trackside fire near Balboa Park, 78 Sonoma County residents are being monitored for coronavirus after traveling on the Grand Princess, and Lowell High School is closed until at least Monday due to a parent being diagnosed.
The Coast Guard helicopters dropped off sample kits to the ship this morning, and some passengers are being confined to their rooms, but many reportedly continue milling about the ship.
