A new report confirms what many have been talking about for weeks: There is a mass exodus out of San Francisco, and the numbers are staggering. Online real estate company Zillow released new statistics shining a stark light on the issue this week. Their "2020 Urban-Suburban Mark … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Tuesday announced the creation of a new 24-hour Street Crisis Response Team that would be used to respond to behavioral health emergencies in the place of law enforcement. Under the pilot program, the team would provide ap … | Continue reading
If you don't floss regularly, this might persuade you to change your behavior. Patients with gum disease are likely to experience severe, potentially life-threatening complications if they contract COVID-19 and need to be hospitalized, according to a new report published online … | Continue reading
Rain barrels let you take advantage of rainfall to use for outdoor irrigation, reducing... | Continue reading
Two days after a San Francisco judge ruled that Uber and Lyft must classify their drivers as employees and not contractors, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stated that the ride-sharing service might shut down in California for months. | Continue reading
In the United Arab Emirates, all arriving passengers must submit to COVID-19 testing prior to their trips, and show negative results to be admitted into the country. But this week, Dubai International Airport (DXB) started using police dogs for on-airport rapid COVID-19 testing, … | Continue reading
The Black Rock Desert in Nevada is no stranger to ambitious pieces of public art. Best known as the location of the yearly Burning Man festival (which will go online in 2020), the inhospitable sandy landscape is now the site of an anonymous and unsanctioned art piece made out of … | Continue reading
Thousands turned out for events, but an uncontrollable outbreak never hit, and even after a July surge of cases in San Francisco, Chinatown continues to have among the lowest number of cases in the city. | Continue reading
A wealthy Silicon Valley investor caused a furor on Twitter on Sunday after attempting to... | Continue reading
CHICAGO (AP) - A Chicago woman who last month became the nation's first COVID-19 patient to undergo a double lung transplant said Thursday that she woke up days later, unaware about the surgery and unable to "recognize my body." Mayra Ramirez said that before she fell ill she wa … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A Chinese researcher accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military on a visa application she submitted so she could work in the U.S. was booked Friday into a Northern California jail and was expected to appear in federal court Monday. Sacramento Cou … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO - On May 5, after almost two months of working alone in his San Francisco apartment, Brian Chesky, Airbnb's chief executive, cried into his video camera. It was a Tuesday, not that it mattered because the days had blurred together, and Chesky was addressing thousan … | Continue reading
As we report on airlines reviving more of their suspended international routes, some readers have wondered how the carriers can make money on these services when overseas passenger travel is banned or severely restricted, especially for Americans. Initially, many airlines used t … | Continue reading
Airbnb's latest attempt to appease hosts and customers amid a tumultuous year has been met with a searing backlash on social media. The San Francisco-based vacation rental online marketplace initiated a feature this week offering customers the chance to donate money and "kindnes … | Continue reading
Grant Imahara, a roboticist, electrical engineer and host of the hit science show "Mythbusters," died suddenly at age 49, the Hollywood Reporter said Monday. He was 49. | Continue reading
San Francisco and Oakland topped a recent study investigating gentrification and cultural displacement across America. | Continue reading
UCSF coronavirus expert Dr. Bob Wachter sounded the alarm bells Monday for California where coronavirus cases are surging. | Continue reading
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minneapolis City Council on Friday unanimously advanced a proposal to change the city charter to allow the police department to be dismantled, following widespread criticism of law enforcement over the killing of George Floyd. The 12-0 vote is just the fir … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO - When he defiantly reopened the company's Fremont plant against county orders last month, Elon Musk promised Tesla employees they could stay home if they felt uneasy. They would not be penalized. If "you feel uncomfortable coming back to work at this time, please … | Continue reading
Captain Amy Corso woke up last Thursday at 1:30 a.m. to the sound of her crying... | Continue reading
A city dramatically reformed its police department around principles of community policing right here in the Bay Area, and it paid off. When Magnus left Richmond in 2015, the city had seen an overwhelming decline in the major crime indices. According to a USA Today profile of Ma … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO - Tesla workers in California tested positive last month for the novel coronavirus following chief executive Elon Musk's defiant reopening of the company's main production facility in Fremont, according to employees with knowledge of the situation. Two workers, who … | Continue reading
Bay Area residents were serenaded by the Golden Gate Bridge as wind gusts passed through the region Friday - a new phenomenon that has a relatively simple explanation. | Continue reading
San Francisco-based online personal styling service Stitch Fix is laying off 1,400 stylists in California between now and the end of September, affecting 18% of its workforce, per a statement released on Monday. | Continue reading
In the fall of 2009, one of us, Beth, was hit by an illness she suspects was H1N1 flu, which was circulating then. In 2012, the other, Brian, developed a sudden fever, which his doctors said was also likely of viral origin. Neither of us recovered, and we're both disabled to thi … | Continue reading
Unlike its Nordic neighbors, Sweden decided early in the pandemic to forgo lockdown in the hope of achieving "herd immunity." While social distancing was promoted bars, restaurants, salons, gyms and schools stayed open. How has that worked out? | Continue reading
A staple of work lunches all over the Bay Area is closing permanently. Specialty's Café & Bakery, which has over 50 locations in three states, announced on its website that the company is shuttering due to the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
Almost every industry is currently facing difficult layoffs due to the coronavirus pandemic, but despite increased audiences, journalism has been hit particularly hard. | Continue reading
A caravan of protest vehicles surrounded Uber's San Francisco headquarters on Monday afternoon asking the ride-sharing company to drop support for a ballot initiative that would overturn California's AB5 law, intended to give gig workers more employee rights and benefits, and ens … | Continue reading
Insect experts say people should calm down about the big bug with the nickname "murder hornet" - unless you are a beekeeper or a honeybee. The Asian giant hornets found in Washington state that grabbed headlines this week aren't big killers of humans, although it does happen on … | Continue reading
The coronavirus has killed so many people in Iran that the country has resorted to mass burials, but in neighboring Iraq, the body count is fewer than 100. The Dominican Republic has reported nearly 7,600 cases of the virus. Just across the border, Haiti has recorded about 85. … | Continue reading
The protest Friday in Sacramento urging California's governor to reopen the state resembled the rallies that have appeared elsewhere in the country, with crowds flocking to the state Capitol, pressing leaders to undo restrictions on businesses and daily life. But the organizers … | Continue reading
NEW YORK - Hundreds of lawsuits stemming from the coronavirus pandemic are rapidly amassing in state and federal courts, the first wave of litigation challenging decisions made early during the crisis by corporations, insurance companies and governments. Claims have been filed a … | Continue reading
The wife of a Stanford professor solicited parents via email in Los Altos to join her husband's coronavirus antibody study, falsely claiming that the tests were "FDA approved" and would tell participants whether they were immune, potentially comprising the study's findings, accor … | Continue reading
The wife of a Stanford professor solicited parents via email in Los Altos to join her husband's coronavirus antibody study, falsely claiming that the tests were "FDA approved" and would tell participants whether they were immune, potentially comprising the study's findings, accor … | Continue reading
A Bay Area couple came up with a very novel way to try out different areas before deciding where to put down roots. For two years, Jessica and Bryan Ausinheiler lived in a van as a way to quickly pay off their student loans and save up enough money for their eventual dream home. | Continue reading
Craig Coopersmith was up early that morning as usual and typed his daily inquiry into his phone. "Good morning, Team Covid," he wrote, asking for updates from the ICU team leaders working across 10 hospitals in the Emory University health system in Atlanta. One doctor replied th … | Continue reading
A handful of rich Americans have reportedly bugged out in the most luxurious possible way - fleeing to their New Zealand bunkers to wait out the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
Back on March 27th, two weeks into San Francisco's shelter-in-place order, we reported on an uptick in sightings of coyotes on the newly barren streets of the city. As the streets remain quiet, the animals have only gotten more audacious in recent days. This incredible video f … | Continue reading
A man found dead in his house in early March. A woman who fell sick in mid-February and later died. These early COVID-19 deaths in the San Francisco Bay Area suggest that the novel coronavirus had established itself in the community long before health officials started looking fo … | Continue reading
The California Department of Public Health provided new data on the state's positive COVID-19 tests on Wednesday, and provided the striking piece of information that health care workers make up nearly 10 percent of the state's confirmed cases. | Continue reading
Bring on a pandemic and, suddenly, everyone's Bob the Builder. While the nation's streets, malls and theaters are ghost towns, visit any home improvement store, and it feels like Mardi Gras. "Every honey-do list is getting done," said one of the exhausted paint guys at a Home D … | Continue reading