Should you leave SF? Data shows 'bang for your buck' in different U.S. cities

The top two worst “bang for your buck” cities are both in the Bay Area. | Continue reading


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Have you seen a perfect halo around the moon recently? Here's why

If you've seen an angelic-looking moon in the Bay Area sky lately, there's a fun... | Continue reading


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After 51 years you can hike this Bay Area park. I did, and it made me furious

To understand my rage, you need to understand the history of Foothills Park. | Continue reading


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Distressing video shows California hospital overwhelmed by Covid patients

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Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco

The crisis is fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl. | Continue reading


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Apple closes all California stores as Covid cases rise

The move comes less than a week before Christmas. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Overdose deaths far outpace Covid-19 deaths in San Francisco

The crisis is fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl. | Continue reading


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Oracle is moving its Redwood City headquarters to Austin

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Bay Area county launches door-to-door testing amid 'dire' surge

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The Zodiac Killer's most uncrackable cipher has, at last, been solved

After millions of attempts, thousands of bad solutions and 51 years, the Zodiac... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

The Legal Urban Sheep of Oakland

These sheep will come clean up your yard for free. The only downside is their | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Normally at this time of year, I would be writing about travel strategies. But not now. | Continue reading


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'They're ripping us apart': Bay Area small business owners talk new lockdown

Here's what Bay Area small businesses are thinking as they prepare to close once again,... | Continue reading


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Over half a million Californians left the state last year

New state-to-state migration numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau has revealed where... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Former Google worker finds joy in her San Francisco Dumpling Club

Dumpling Club has quickly earned a devoted following of customers who, of course, love... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Moving Headquarters from Silicon Valley

One of the Bay Area’s oldest tech companies is moving its headquarters out of Silicon... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

California’s Gov Newsom says stay-at-home order likely if Covid surge continues

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Airlines' new 'health passport' could revive international travel

As COVID-19 vaccines are approved and distributed to the public, proof of vaccination... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

China launches mission to bring back material from moon

WENCHANG, China (AP) — China launched an ambitious mission on Tuesday to bring back... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Budget 'windfall' in California as economy weathers virus

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — When California shut down most of its economy in the spring... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Bay Area applicants flood program that pays them $10k to leave California

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@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

That weird lever at the top of the stairs in old SF homes

Old San Francisco homes have all kinds of oddities. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

California: Whites in state 'below the replacement' level (2010)

California's white population has declined since 2000 at an unprecedented rate, hastening... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Liberal politics, Covid-19, and a high CoL are fueling a new CA exodus

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Rich Threadgill was born and raised in California and loved his... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Reddit: Permanent work from home, eliminates cost-of-living pay compensation

No more higher pay just because you live in the Bay Area. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

She worked for Disneyland for 39 years. Then they laid her off

Surprisingly, she's not bitter. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

See the Golden Gate Bridge like you never have before

Unlike most photographers who capture the iconic structure and the San Francisco Bay's... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

911 is not a customer service line for someone's racist behavior

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Fed up with white people calling 911 about people of color selling... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

San Francisco birds have changed the way they sing in the shutdown

Your ears are not deceiving you: Songbirds in San Francisco have changed the way they... | Continue reading


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Airbnb blocking one day rentals over Halloween to halt parties

Airbnb will prohibit one-night rentals over Halloween weekend as part of its ongoing... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

SF rental prices fall another 7% MOM

September’s monthly rental reports have been released and for the seventh straight... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

San Francisco's only cat cafe struggles to stay open

Burger and Ron, two of the most social cat residents at KitTea, a cat cafe and foster... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Ann Arbor decriminalizes magic mushrooms, psychedelic plants

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The city of Ann Arbor has decriminalized psychedelic plants and... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Not so fast, urban exodus: Covid could make NY and SF great places to live again

Walk the streets of Manhattan these days and it's hard to believe that, only months ago, this was one of a handful of "supercities" whose dense concentration of innovative businesses and highly skilled workers was meant to drive economic growth in the 21st century. Six months in … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

New Steve Jobs recordings from the '80s released

Steve Jobs is now known for revolutionizing just about every part of the tech world, but back in 1988, he was perhaps best known for getting fired. In his first product reveal since his dismissal from Apple in 1985, Jobs unveiled a new project called NeXT at a meeting of the Bos … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Thick wildfire smoke blocks sun, turns Bay Area sky orange

Just when Bay Area residents thought the world outside couldn't get even stranger, the sky early Wednesday glowed a bright pumpkin orange you'd expect to see on Mars. With wildfire smoke high aloft in the atmosphere, the sky was an eerie yellow color on Tuesday, but today with m … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Another FB worker quits in disgust, saying it 'is on the wrong side of history'

Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney has watched with growing unease as the... | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Plague-bearing fleas spark closures at popular Lake Tahoe sites

Officials have announced that three Lake Tahoe parking areas - at Tallac Historic Beach, Kiva Beach/Picnic area, and the Taylor Creek Visitor Center - will be temporarily closed after fleas tested positive for the bubonic plague. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?

When the thousands of square feet of street art that took over the boarded-up storefronts... | Continue reading


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What’s that weird smell in the Bay Area today?

Many living in communities fronting San Francisco Bay noticed an unusual sulfur-like smell outdoors Wednesday. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Is San Francisco about to return to its Bohemian roots?

When the thousands of square feet of street art that took over the boarded-up storefronts of San Francisco during the shutdown finally get pulled down, the city that emerges from its cocoon may look different. After a decade of the second tech boom that pushed San Francisco's Bo … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Oakland PD raided this church. And took all their drugs

Religion means different things to different people. For the members of the Zide Door Church of Entheogenic Plants in Oakland, it means communing with god through a fog of cannabis smoke and hallucinogenic mushrooms. That is, until the Oakland Police Department learned of the ope … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

Pinterest, a social-sharing site popular for pinning recipes, home inspiration and more, has canceled its large San Francisco office lease. The lease was for 88 Bluxome, a building to-be-constructed near Pinterest's existing San Francisco headquarters. The company cited a shift … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

The 6-foot rule is 'outdated': Researchers devise chart to gauge Covid risk

The three etched-in-stone rules of the coronavirus pandemic are: 1) wear a mask,  2) wash your hands frequently and 3) keep at least 6 feet apart from others. Now British researchers say No. 3 needs some tweaking. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

SFO opens first airport Covid-19 rapid testing site in the US

The first airport COVID-19 rapid testing site in the United States has opened in San Francisco International to screen employees and airline flight crews, but not travelers - at least not yet. | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Genetic data show how a single superspreading event sent virus across the nation

None of the biotech executives at the meeting noticed the uninvited guest. They had flown to Boston from across the globe for the annual leadership meeting of the drug company Biogen, and they were busy catching up with colleagues and hobnobbing with upper management. For two day … | Continue reading


@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Lafayette approves apartments after decade of politics, litigation

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@sfgate.com | 3 years ago

Jeff Bezos-blackmailing David Pecker out as CEO of National Enquirer Company

NEW YORK (AP) - David Pecker is stepping down as CEO of the National Enquirer's parent, ending a reign that saw the company entangled in a campaign-finance scandal that sent President Donald Trump's personal lawyer to jail. Pecker's company, American Media Inc., is being taken o … | Continue reading


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