South Bay Small Business Owners' Optimism Tested as New Year Dawns With Virus Surging
Many Bay Area business owners say they are limping in the New Year but are determined to fight to make it through the pandemic and public health orders.
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Many Bay Area business owners say they are limping in the New Year but are determined to fight to make it through the pandemic and public health orders.
Still trying to stem the surge of COVID-19 cases in the area, Santa Clara County announced Friday it's offering free tests and changing restrictions for businesses staying open during the pandemic.
California once stood as a model state during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now infections have been racing out of control for weeks, and California has routinely set new records for infections and deaths.
Vaccinations against COVID-19 are underway at the California Veterans Home in Yountville, the state's Department of Veterans Affairs, also known as CalVet, announced Thursday.
California became the third state Thursday to surpass 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic, following New York and Texas.
An appeal to prioritize public transit workers for COVID-19 vaccinations was made Wednesday by Valley Transportation Authority General Manager and CEO Nuria Fernandez in a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The American Red Cross said it has a critical need for donated plasma, the part of the blood that contains antibodies, from those who have recovered from the virus.
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital is asking the public to help identify a man in its care.
A new highly contagious strain of the coronavirus that has forced new shutdown orders in England has now been detected in California, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
A California water official says that the water in the state's mountain snowpack is currently about half of average for early winter, but noted that a dry start doesn't always predict the season's outcome.
A ban on smoking and vaping in and around apartments, condos and other attached-housing units, passed almost a year ago by the Concord City Council, goes into effect for all such housing units Friday.
Stanford University is facing a new round of criticism over its handling of the COVID vaccine rollout after non-clinical and non-frontline staff and researchers were reportedly able to receive the vaccine following miscommunication about a purported excess of supply vaccines available.
COVID-19 restrictions kept San Jose State from playing on its home field most of the season. Now it's being scrutinized over its travel plans to play Ball State in the Arizona Bowl.
Sonoma County officials said Tuesday they're looking to change policies for new intaking inmates, which will hopefully stem an increase in COVID-19 cases at the county's main jail.
California health officials are begging residents to stay home on New Year's Eve, warning it could be a matter of life of death.
