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Workers at the Marathon Petroleum Co. refinery in unincorporated Contra Costa County began shutdown procedures Sunday as the facility prepares to be temporarily shuttered because of plummeting demand for gasoline amid COVID-19 coronavirus-related travel restrictions.
Homeless shelters take measures to reduce capacity, maintain social distancing and sanitize facilities. Meanwhile, at food banks throughout the South Bay is surging.
Widespread virus testing is one of the keys to reopening the country but there is still no organized effort to do that so entrepreneurs are stepping in to meet that need.
Bold measures implemented by California leaders, led by members of the Association of Bay Area Health Officers, were central in helping the Golden State avoid the kind of devastation the coronavirus wrought in New York and parts of Europe, experts say.
Perbacco in SF's Financial District is closed Saturday, but owner and chef Staffan Terje is busy packing 180 gourmet meals. His is one of several San Francisco restaurants delivering fine food to hospital workers fighting COVID-19.
Gov. Newsom said the state's existing housing crisis and the outbreak of the coronavirus and need for social distancing has intensified the need to get an estimated 108,000 homeless people off the streets.
Led by Thomas Keller, who made Yountville's The French Laundry a world-famous landmark of fine dining, a group of chefs who say they have paid millions in insurance premiums over the years are now organizing to demand their claims be paid.
Gov. Gavin Newsom expects to spend up to $7 billion this year battling the coronavirus and the economic disruption it has unleashed as state budget experts warned lawmakers to prepare for revenue loss akin to the Great Recession.
Bay Area biotech company Gilead Sciences is in the spotlight after the firm's drug remdesivir got positive results in a trial treatment on COVID-19 patients. But some experts are not celebrating yet.
After weeks of preparing on computer simulations, Port of Oakland officials Thursday welcomed the arrival of a massive freighter -- longer than the Salesforce Tower is high -- maneuvered under the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge before docking at the International Container Terminal.
The criminal trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the failed blood-testing company Theranos, has been delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said they are slowing plans to return employees to the office and canceling events with 50 or more people well into next year due to coronavirus.
None of the ventilators promised by the Tesla CEO have been delivered to hospitals, according to the governor's office.
In a team effort to keep people fed during the coronavirus pandemic, a Berkeley community program is working with kitchens of struggling restaurants to provide gourmet meals to the city's homeless.
After years of releasing smartphones with four-figure price tags, Apple is reintroducing a lower-cost, stripped down iPhone model.
