And I worry my friends in San Francisco are on the same path

San Francisco will place a moratorium on public events with more than 1,000 people as part of an effort to slow the coronavirus outbreak, Mayor London Breed (D) announced Wednesday.

The directive will require people to stay home except for essential travel and will last until April 7, the mayor said.

Rapper G-Eazy, through his Endless Summer Fund, will be feeding San Francisco youth for the following month. The Bay Area native and his charity organization will be working with Larkin Street Youth Services, a local non-profit group, to feed the at-risk youth in the area.

Yelp is laying off 1,000 workers and furloughing 1,100 more, roughly a third of its staff, the company said Thursday. Eventbrite laid off 450 employees, or nearly half of its workforce, on Wednesday.

Sometimes, opposites attract. In this case, they are a worldwide negative turned into a local positive, beating novel coronavirus with rock, paper and scissors. "Tomorrow is capture the flag," said counselor Joshoua Cortez. It is the answer to an essential question, and maybe be also the prayers for essential workers who need to work, but had no place to keep their kids. The San Francisco YMCA has opened four free pop-up camps now serving some 100 children of grocery workers, medical people, and sheriff's deputies, etc. allowing them to work.

San Francisco’s most infamous neighborhood through the lens of Pieter Hugo

On Friday, San Francisco became the first American city to ban smokeless tobacco—chewing tobacco and “moist inhalable snuff”—at sports venues. The new ordinance, signed by Mayor Ed Lee, goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2016. Violators will be asked to leave the playing fields (where cigarette and cigar smoking is already banned), the Associated Press reports.

It's cold at Fort Baker. The water is frigid and the breeze chilly. It's quiet, except for the lapping of waves along the muddy shoreline. Every time a person jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge, his or her broken corpse is brought to Fort Baker by solemn sailors of the U.S. Coast Guard. There, the dead are met by an investigator from the Marin County coroner's office, which is responsible for tying up the loose ends of the jumper's life. Identification, notification, autopsy and death notice.

Tiny cracks found on some of the rods on the new Bay Bridge tower potentially endanger the rest of the more than 400 remaining fasteners that secure the tower to the foundation in an earthquake, Caltrans officials said Tuesday...

The photographer Joe Samberg remembers how drugs destroyed the Telegraph Avenue scene.

At least 350 entire homes listed on Airbnb appear to be full-time vacation rentals, bolstering claims by activists that the service removes scarce housing from the city's limited inventory. By Caroline Said. First of five parts, also at the link.

San Francisco by Drone Travel by drone to San Francisco, in Northern California U.S.A This Drone video compilation is dedicated to all the inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The notorious 50-block swath of downtown is seeing an influx of tech companies and gentrification’s attendant indicators – residents are trying to combat the sudden popularity of their area with education and appeals for integration

Janitors everywhere are rejoicing. San Francisco city officials are implementing a new "pee-proof" paint around the city to combat the persistent problem of public urination. Public Works crews have painted 10 walls in the city with a special UV-coated, urine-repellent paint, according to CNN affiliate KPIX. Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was inspired by a project in Hamburg, Germany, where walls in a night club district were coated with the liquid-repellent paint.

City officials are confident that pee-proof walls will thwart al fresco urination, one splash at a time.

Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container. The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure.

And not much is being done about it.

The PKD Foundation is an organization committed to discovering treatments and a cure for polycystic kidney disease and improving the lives of all it affects.

A short sharp earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area, but there are no reports of injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.0 magnitude quake struck Monday morning and was centered just north of Piedmont, near Berkeley. It was felt in downtown San Francisco, along the Peninsula...