SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco’s police chief said the city’s rank and file will wear neutral face coverings to defuse a controversy that was sparked when officers sent to patrol a May Day protest wore masks adorned with the “thin blue line” flag. The police union ordered and distributed the...
Free COVID-19 Testing For Rural Areas, Fresno County Enrolls Patients
UC San Francisco scientists are offering free sample analysis and test results, indefinitely, to all 58 county departments of public health in California. "What it means is that we will probably be able to enroll somewhere between 30 and 50 patients every week into that study, and I really wanted...
How Much You Drive Soon Will Dictate the Price of a New Home
If you dream of buying a new house in the suburbs — or anywhere outside the urban core —the cost is going way, way up because of a California law taking effect July 1. Critics say the law will price new homes beyond the reach of middle-class families at a...
She Hired a Plane to Find Her Lost Dog. Now He’s Home.
SAN FRANCISCO — Four months after she hired a plane to fly a search banner for her stolen dog, Emilie Talermo has been reunited with her blue-eyed mini Australian shepherd. Talermo, who lives in San Francisco, said she received a call Monday from an animal shelter in Palmdale, which is...
6 Bay Area Counties Order Residents to Shelter-in-Place
Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says residents must stay inside and venture out only for necessities for three weeks starting Tuesday in a desperate attempt by officials to...
Bay Area Has Highest Income Inequality in California
It’s official: The gap between the Bay Area’s haves and have-nots is wider than anywhere else in the state. Top income earners in the Bay Area make 12.2 times as much as those at the bottom of the economic ladder, according to new research from the Public Policy Institute of...
San Francisco to Open Tent 'Sobering' Center for Meth Users
SAN FRANCISCO — A center for people experiencing methamphetamine-induced psychosis will open in San Francisco to help them get sober in a safe place, the latest effort to address the city's rising drug overdoses and rampant street drug use. The center, believed to be the first in the U.S. specifically...
San Francisco Official Charged With Corruption in FBI Probe
SAN FRANCISCO — A top San Francisco public official and go-to bureaucrat to mayors over two decades was charged with public corruption Tuesday, upending City Hall as elected leaders scrambled to reassure the public that bribery and kickbacks would not be tolerated. The complaint unsealed against San Francisco Public Works...
Bettors Leaning Heavily Toward Home Teams Making Super Bowl
Pro Picks is surprised. Consider that the NFC title game is a matchup of the conferences's top two seeds. The spread favors host San Francisco (14-3) over Green Bay (also 14-3) by 7 1-2 points. In the AFC, it's the sixth-seeded Titans (11-7) at No. 2 Kansas City (13-4), which...
Judge Threatens to Force PG&E to Hire More Tree Trimmers
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Thursday threatened to force Pacific Gas & Electric to hire more tree trimmers to reduce the chances of its electrical grid igniting fires in Northern California and adhere to a requirement imposed after the utility's natural gas lines blew up a neighborhood a...