The movie “Trumbo,” currently in Bay Area theaters, makes a hero of Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo and others of the Hollywood Ten, and villainizes their political opponents in Hollywood, including actors John Wayne and Robert Taylor and columnist Hedda Hopper. Since its re … | Continue reading
The variant, which is different from the U.K. variant, is stirring significant concern, as researchers scramble to figure out whether it is more contagious than other strains or could impact the effectiveness of the vaccine. | Continue reading
Here’s the story of the county inmate’s phone call that uncovered California’s billion-dollar jailhouse unemployment scam — by accident. | Continue reading
California suffered the steepest outflow of residents via U-Haul rental truck among all 50 states in 2020, with San Francisco the epicenter of the Bay Area’s pandemic exodus for DIY movers, new data shows. | Continue reading
Prescribed forest fires can prevent larger, more intense blazes later. California has known for decades that it needs to do more of that work — and the state is finally catching up, but slowly. | Continue reading
A 2020 review by apartment listings website Zumper found that many of the renters who deserted the Bay Area in droves, causing prices to plummet, likely didn’t land too far away. Here’s a look at the data on renter interests, behavior and prices. | Continue reading
The pandemic presents a stress test of Airbnb’s peer-to-peer marketplace model, in which guests and hosts are left to navigate unprecedented uncertainty on their own. | Continue reading
Physicians at Stanford Medical Center held a raucous protest Friday, accusing the university of prioritizing the wrong health care workers to receive the coronavirus vaccine ahead of residents and fellows who work directly with COVID-19 patients. | Continue reading
In order to more completely address climate change, we need to think beyond energy infrastructure and tackle our housing crisis as well. To do this, we need to change the way we build. | Continue reading
The Castro’s “Princess Leia” slept on concrete. She cycled in and out of jail and the hospital. Help was within reach, but she was too sick to accept it. What does compassion mean in a city that lets its most vulnerable die in plain sight? | Continue reading
The Bay Area’s crises of mental health, substance abuse and homelessness continue to bleed into BART’s train system, challenging its leaders to respond to safety and public health crises. | Continue reading
San Francisco’s building department has a 58-page guide called “Getting a City Permit.” It reads: “Obtaining a city permit can undoubtedly be one of the most confusing processes you may ever experience.” That’s the truth. | Continue reading
The decoded text from the Zodiac Killer reads: “I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me. ... I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice (sic) all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me.” | Continue reading
The district will abandon the current system, which gives elementary school families the opportunity to request a spot in any site in the district, with assignment made through a complicated lottery system that gives some priority to siblings and those in the neighborhood. | Continue reading
The legislative package to address California’s housing shortage next year could look a lot like it did this year. Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins and Sen. Scott Wiener plan to bring back bills that would make it easier to split lots, convert homes into duplexes and build sm … | Continue reading
California’s new stay-at-home order means Bay Area restaurants are adjusting their food purchases to include ingredients with longer shelf life, contemplating layoffs and considering temporarily closing due to the possibility of outdoor dining ending. | Continue reading
A Jewish doctor, a Black nurse and an Asian American respiratory therapist worked to save the life of the man on the hospital gurney struggling to breathe. He begged them to save his life. Dr. Taylor Nichols stared down at the swastika on the man’s chest. “Don’t let me die, doc,” … | Continue reading
Trump administration restrictions on H-1B visas for skilled workers were blocked Tuesday by a federal judge because they were not submitted for public notice and comment. | Continue reading
Apartment vacancy rates have more than doubled since last year in San Francisco during the coronavirus pandemic. The spike in supply has caused prices to plummet and put renters in a rare position of power in the historically competitive market, analysts say. | Continue reading
Apple’s Chief Security Officer Thomas Moyer is accused of bribing members of the Santa Clara sheriff’s office in a bid to secure concealed-weapon permits. | Continue reading
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission scrapped a controversial work-from-home requirement for Bay Area companies but still aims to cap car commutes in an effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions. | Continue reading
The self-taught engineer was behind one of the most significant inventions of the century: the first video game system with interchangeable cartridges, which revolutionized the industry. In the world of 1970s Silicon Valley, he did so as one of the sector’s few Black men. | Continue reading
Gov. Gavin Newsom attended a birthday party for one of his political advisers at The French Laundry last week that included people from several households, the type of gathering his administration has discouraged for Californians during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
California’s biggest real estate tax proposal in over four decades was narrowly defeated, in the latest setback for progressives in the high-turnout presidential election. | Continue reading
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to ban natural gas in new construction, legislation that will apply to more than 54,000 homes and 32 million square feet in the city’s development pipeline. | Continue reading
Privacy advocates led by Alastair Mactaggart, a wealthy San Francisco developer, proposed the measure because they say California’s existing privacy law is at risk of being watered down at the Legislature. | Continue reading
A state appeals court prohibited UC on Thursday from considering SAT or ACT scores from new applicants, in a victory for students with disabilities. | Continue reading
Proposition 15 got map creator Ian Webster interested in property taxes in California, but he wanted the data to speak for itself. | Continue reading
The performing arts industry has been ravaged by shelter-in-place orders that have halted performances and darkened stages; thrown millions of performers, stage crew members and administrative staff out of work; and left some theaters teetering on the brink of insolvency. | Continue reading
Enter your address in this PG&E outage map to see real-time updates on how your area is affected by power shut-offs — plus see how outage areas line up with fire risk zones. | Continue reading
Speculating on where all the merchandise had gone, a clerk at the Walgreens at Van Ness and Eddy said, “Go ask the people in the alleys, they have it all.” | Continue reading
In the latest indication that he’s not willing to stick to sports, Warriors point guard Stephen Curry is launching a book club called Underrated. | Continue reading
Up to 40 of the bus lines that San Francisco cut at the beginning of the pandemic are not coming back unless the city finds a new revenue spigot, transportation chief Jeffrey Tumlin said this week. Just about every aspect of San Francisco’s transportation future looks grim. | Continue reading
Parents and principals at schools were forced to scramble this week to brainstorm new school names while also juggling the demands of distance learning in a pandemic. | Continue reading
According to the September rent report from listings website Realtor.com, San Francisco’s rental prices experienced the steepest declines in the nation year-over-year in all three of its categories: studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom. | Continue reading
San Francisco’s bleak economic vital signs over the past six months strongly suggest residents are leaving amid record job losses, widespread remote work, and a coronavirus pandemic that shows no signs of ending. | Continue reading
S.F. school officials to consider temporary random lottery admission for entrance into academically competitive Lowell High School given lack of spring grades and inability to administer standardized tests. | Continue reading
Sales tax data show San Francisco’s population probably declined during the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
San Francisco’s residential real estate market saw brisk activity from July through September with a steep increase in both sales and inventory, a Compass report said. A significant jump in buyers was not enough to keep up with the deluge of new condos and homes. | Continue reading
Should it cost $150,000 to open an ice cream shop in San Francisco, a city riddled with vacant storefronts? Clearly not — and Prop. H would help fix the broken system. | Continue reading
Fires bring down utility poles and cut off power, which internet networks depend on. With evacuation orders and other emergency communications dependent on online communication, the latest wildfires highlight the need for more resilient connections. | Continue reading
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will attempt to use its massive market power to increase the availability and lower the cost of prescription drugs under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Monday. The new law requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to c … | Continue reading
The Metropolitan Transportation Commission advanced a controversial mandate that large Bay Area employers keep 60% of their workers home each workday to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and congestion. | Continue reading
We just got a wake-up call about climate change, but San Franciscans are still arguing about the measures we need, like bike lanes and better public transit, to help combat it. | Continue reading
A staggering amount of smoke billowing off fires burning since August have drifted to lower elevations, turning skies ominous tones of red, orange and gray. Hours after sunrise, it still seemed dark outside and the dim orange hue continued throughout the day. | Continue reading
Twitter has listed 104,850 square feet for sublease at its San Francisco headquarters after adopting a permanent work from home policy amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
A staggering amount of smoke billowing off fires burning since August have drifted to lower elevations, turning skies ominous tones of red, orange and gray. More than hour after sunrise, it still seemed dark outside. | Continue reading