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.
The accused would-be killer live streamed his police chase on Facebook, whilst in possession of nine guns and 20,000 rounds of ammunition.
Facebook has made good on its policy barring ads that mislead users about the upcoming U.S. Census and removed a set of Trump campaign ads that created some confusion and referred to a "Congressional District Census."
At a press conference Thursday morning, Mayor London Breed announced the first two confirmed cases of the virus in the city limits, and discussed the fate of the Grand Princess cruise ship, which still may end up docking here.
Planning commissioner Dennis Richards has, following a leave of absence from his post, just submitted his letter of resignation from the commission.
Some rain is headed our way, finally, in the early hours of Saturday, ending a record-setting dry spell.
The Grand Princess, the Princess Cruises ship that made a roundtrip from San Francisco to Mexico in mid-February and returned with at least two passengers sick with the coronavirus, is currently being held off the California coast as testing of 21 passengers showing symptoms takes place.
Two more tech conferences scheduled at the Moscone Center have canceled, Sonoma County is trying to locate 100 people possibly exposed to the coronavirus, and Starbucks won't refill your personal mugs anymore, for now.
Elizabeth Warren is said to be weighing her options about continuing her candidacy for president, Gov. Newsom has declared a state of emergency over the coronavirus, and Olivier Adella (the accused accomplice in the Keith Green murder) may get deported.
We have new details about an upcoming food addition to Thrive City, in the plaza outside the Chase Center, and it's Gott's Roadside.
Some land on Potrero Hill with an uninhabitable shack on it has just sold for well under its initial asking price of $2.5 million.
Despite reams of articles declaring the death of San Francisco amid sky-high rents, economic inequality, homelessness and open-air drug use, the city's tourism numbers were actually up in 2019.
Though every SF local ballot measure is ahead, around 104,000 uncounted ballots could change the fate of the storefront vacancy tax and a couple of judges’ seats.
Preliminary results are in from Tuesday's primary election in San Francisco, and while Bernie Sanders won a plurality with 39,571 votes (32.72%), Elizabeth Warren did quite well here with about as many votes as Joe Biden.
The first death from covid-19 in the state of California happened in Placer County as we learned Wednesday morning, and now it's being reported that the man who died was on the same cruise to Mexico as the Sonoma County case reported Monday.
The Menlo School in Atherton just announced that all classes, athletic events, and field trips are cancelled through this weekend after a school staff member revealed that they came in contact with a relative who had tested positive for the coronavirus.
A track-switching problem caused headaches for commuters on Muni Wednesday morning, with trains slowed to a crawl, bus shuttles trying to fill in gaps, and lots of San Franciscans late for work.
Prop 13 (the school bond measure) looks headed for defeat, Santa Clara County has two more coronavirus cases, and Bernie Sanders appears to have won California.
Berkeley marks its first coronavirus case in a returning traveler from Italy, a downtown SF building gets notified of a couple potentially exposed workers, CHP helps the OPD catch some alleged carjackers, and the deets on tonight's Election Night parties in SF.
Seriously impacting the commute out of SF toward the East Bay this evening is a major crash just past Treasure Island on the eastbound, upper deck of the Bay Bridge.
Biden’s Super Tuesday swing through Oakland featured “Sully” Sullenberger, an encounter with a sex toy purveyor, and a few protesting Democratic Socialists.
Three years after hitting the market for under $400,000, a funky houseboat in Sausalito once owned by the poet and author Shel Silverstein is getting flipped with an asking price of $783,000.
South By Southwest 2020 may become the next high-profile casualty of the coronavirus pandemic on people's event calendars as more companies say they're backing out of the event which is supposed to kick off next week.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed publicly slammed the Trump administration Tuesday for its failure of leadership with regard to the growing coronavirus pandemic.
In addition to the 150-foot Ferris wheel we have to look forward to as part of the sesquicentennial celebration of Golden Gate Park next month, Rec and Parks will also be officially introducing five new bison yearlings, doubling the size of the local herd.
