Before the novel coronavirus struck, 300,000 evictions were filed in the United States in a typical month. With nearly 10 million people filing unemployment claims last month, evictions would clearly skyrocket, absent intervention from the government. In one hint of the trouble t … | Continue reading
Researchers at Stanford Medicine are working to find out what proportion of Californians have already had COVID-19. The new study could help policymakers make more informed decisions during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
WASHINGTON - The private-equity industry is pressing members of Congress and senior Trump administration officials, including President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, to help them gain access to billions of dollars of stimulus funds to protect their riskier investments. … | Continue reading
While families' cats and dogs are enjoying the upside of spending days with their owners working from home during the coronavirus shutdown, wild coyotes in San Francisco are reportedly also taking advantage of the benefits of a suddenly empty city. | Continue reading
International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound tells USA Today "the Games are not going to start on July 24." | Continue reading
As San Franciscans continue to grapple with the magnitude of the "shelter in place" order issued simultaneously by six Bay Area counties on Monday, news that marijuana dispensaries and delivery services would not be considered an "essential" service by the city resulted in confu … | Continue reading
worker leader Cesar Chavez may have been politically correct, but then the city didn't expect to get a jaw-dropping bill of almost $900,000 from the state highway department. Which, much to the shock of the mayor and the Board of Supervisors, is just what happened Friday, when C … | Continue reading
Two cases of COVID-19 have been identified in San Francisco and the patients are "contained," Mayor London Breed said Thursday. | Continue reading
Health officials said Friday a new coronavirus case of unknown origin has been identified in Santa Clara County. | Continue reading
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday a new case of coronavirus in a Northern California resident who did not visit China or another foreign country and who did not have contact with an infected person, according to the Washington Post and other medi … | Continue reading
This footage of Market Street in the mid-60s feels like the opening of a Scorsese masterpiece, the passing neon signs and movie theater marquees give a glimpse at a vibrant city's central artery at night. Passing pool halls, cigar bars, and nightclubs and record stores briefly te … | Continue reading
A tourist who rented an app-powered car says she was stranded on a rural road along the Northern California coast after she lost cell phone service. | Continue reading
The Russia-U.S. relationship continues to be a topic of intense discussion on the national stage, but newly published maps, secretly drafted during the Soviet era, shed light on the shocking extent of U.S.S.R. intel on American cities during another moment of unrest between the t … | Continue reading
When Adam Mesnick, the owner of Deli Board on Folsom Street, saw a courier enter his restaurant and bypass the line of already waiting customers, he was perplexed. Grubhub bag in hand, the delivery driver said he was expecting to pick up an order for Allison C. The problem was, … | Continue reading
The NBA is having a brutal year for television viewership, as ratings for game broadcasts on all major networks are down double-digit percentages year over year. | Continue reading
Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is representing herself in an ongoing Arizona fraud case, and called into an "important hearing" on Thursday, according to a report from Bloomberg . An anonymous source allegedly at the hearing told the news site that Holmes said she wouldn't be … | Continue reading
In a small, windowless room in the bowels of the Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square, Rob Holsen washes the hotel's money. Since 1938, all the coins the St. Francis acquires through its cafe, restaurants and bars - all of it tarnished by the grime of the outside world - has … | Continue reading
A man was killed after his speeding Tesla crashed and became engulfed in flames at the intersection of West Las Positas Boulevard and Hacienda Drive in Pleasanton, police say. The incident occurred just after 6 p.m. on Saturday night. The unidentified driver was headed southboun … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON - The large color photograph that greets visitors to a National Archives exhibit celebrating the centennial of women's suffrage shows a massive crowd filling Pennsylvania Avenue NW for the Women's March on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after President Donald Trump's inaugurat … | Continue reading
Back in 2012, Guinevere de la Mare and Laura Gluhanich were sipping wine at the now-closed Bistro Central Parc, a cozy French restaurant near the Panhandle in San Francisco decked out in twinkling fairy lights. They were complaining about book clubs. | Continue reading
Lounging at an outdoor cafe just outside downtown San Francisco, his athletic frame filling out a slim-fit button-up, a talkative tech worker named Daniel detailed the many ways he's optimizing his existence. Only the previous week, he says, he returned from a 10-day trip to Ita … | Continue reading
During the last decade, chef Bruce Hill has divided his time running the kitchens inside his San Francisco restaurants Bix and Zero Zero . A career that spans 35 years, has allowed Hill to work within some of the top restaurants in the city, but now he's unsure if he wants to … | Continue reading
The chain's Palo Alto store, located on Portage Ave., announced its closure on Dec. 27. | Continue reading
Carlos Ghosn, the executive whose shocking arrest in Japan ended a more than two-decade run overseeing two of the world's largest automakers, left the country where he's awaited trial and is now in Lebanon, according to people familiar with the matter.The former head of Nissan Mo … | Continue reading
Former "MythBusters" host Adam Savage currently lives in San Francisco and cannot seem to catch a break when it comes to having his stuff stolen. | Continue reading
WASHINGTON - After three years in office, President Donald Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November's election. Trump nominees make up 1 in 4 U.S. circuit court judges. Two of his … | Continue reading
When Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange, QuadrigaCX, announced the death of its co-founder and CEO, Gerald Cotten, in January, condolences flooded in from around the world. The company said Cotten, 30, had been nine days into his honeymoon in India, where he planned to open … | Continue reading
Oracle's OpenWorld conference, which annually hosts 60,000 guests, will be leaving San Francisco after two decades, reportedly citing "poor street conditions" and high costs as the driving factors in the decision. | Continue reading
Blue Bottle is putting an end to its plastic and paper cups, the Oakland-based coffee roaster announced Monday. After some deliberation , Blue Bottle's CEO Bryan Meehan issued an official statement declaring all of their U.S. cafes would be zero waste by the end of 2020, follow … | Continue reading
Uber has gone to great lengths to explain that its global network drivers - the workers it relies on for profit - are not, in fact, drivers at all. The company has argued in court, in an effort to distance itself from responsibility for those workers in the gig economy, that dri … | Continue reading
I love my Chevy Bolt, and I often get stopped by people who are interested in buying an electric vehicle. At first I couldn't answer all their questions, but now after owning my car for more than a year, I have answers. Below is a rundown of what I've learned from owning a so-cal … | Continue reading
"I just canceled a reservation with Hertz using points and they tried to charge me a 50 percent penalty. Apparently it's a new policy. I protested and they gave me a one time courtesy to cancel without penalty. Have you heard of this? I am sending them a sternly worded email. T … | Continue reading
During five campaigns betwee 2016 and 2018, NASA flew a specially-equipped plane equipped over 272,000 "infrastructure elements" to identify where the state's methane emissions were coming from. They found 564 sources - or just 0.2% of all sources surveyed - were responsible for … | Continue reading
More than a third of San Franciscans can't see themselves staying in San Francisco much longer, according to none other than the city itself. The survey, conducted by San Francisco's Office of the Controller, found that 35% of respondents were either "very likely" or "somewhat l … | Continue reading
We are glued to our smartphones for many reasons - to stay in touch with friends and family, to take photos and to read the news while waiting for the bus. With so many benefits come costs: Our phones distract us at work and while driving, at the dinner table and during life's qu … | Continue reading
PG&E announced Wednesday morning it's moving forward with power shutoffs for 179,000 customers to mitigate wildfire risk amid dry, hot, windy weather conditions. | Continue reading
According to the lawsuit, Omar Awan was driving a leased Tesla in south Florida when he lost control of the vehicle. Witnesses told police the car was going between 75 to 90 mph when Awan hit a palm tree. The car caught fire and became filled with smoke. | Continue reading
In 2014, the USGS warned that there is a 72-percent chance that "the big one," or an earthquake of a magnitude of at least 6.7 strikes California within the next 30 years. | Continue reading
After days of warning, Pacific Gas & Electric confirmed Tuesday afternoon that 800,000 customers across 34 California counties would be left in the dark starting at midnight. | Continue reading
Two Bay Area tunnels could be closed as soon as Tuesday evening due to PG&E's planned power outages set for this week. | Continue reading
PG&E is monitoring 30 California counties for a potential power shut-off due to a "severe wind event" forecast for Wednesday and Thursday. | Continue reading
For all of its issues, BART still manages to move a surprising number of people: BART's annual ridership was 125 million in 2018. And while a system that moves 142 times the population of San Francisco across 112 miles of tracks sounds pretty sizable for a major metro subway syst … | Continue reading
Residents of a San Francisco side street are so fed up with tents pitched on the sidewalk by homeless people that they have trucked in boulders to discourage camping. | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online room-rental startup's founders. On behalf of more than a dozen employees, they pleaded to be able to sell their Airbnb stock options. Because Airbnb is privately held, its shares cannot be easily … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO - Last summer, several Airbnb employees wrote a letter to the online room-rental startup's founders. On behalf of more than a dozen employees, they pleaded to be able to sell their Airbnb stock options. Because Airbnb is privately held, its shares cannot be easily … | Continue reading
What's the best way to lighten the mood after announcing mass layoffs? For WeWork CEO Adam Neumann, it's booze and a surprise party - beginning just "minutes" after dropping the layoff bomb to the whole company. | Continue reading
Like most muggles, I've never played quidditch. But that small little fact didn't stop me - a pretty avid Harry Potter reader/stan - from trying out for UC Berkeley's quidditch team, which recreates the mechanics of the sport, sadly without the magic elements. | Continue reading