COVID infections on the rise in San Francisco
COVID cases have slowly but steadily ticked up across the majority of the Bay Area since mid-March.
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COVID cases have slowly but steadily ticked up across the majority of the Bay Area since mid-March.
California is seeing a boom in homeschooling. State numbers show it's more than doubled since before the pandemic.
Following a federal judge's decision to end mask mandates on public transit, BART bosses told KPIX 5 they had to scramble to draft a proposal to be voted on next week.
BART riders could soon be required to mask up again while using the transit system. Three BART board members -- Board President Rebecca Saltzman, Bevan Dufty and Janice Li -- are preparing to propose reinstating the mandate.
Following this week's court ruling, masks are now optional on public transit, including a close-quartered setting many people find themselves in every day: taxis and rideshares.
California is targeting Latinos in a new program using the WhatsApp messaging service to provide COVID information and stop the spread of misinformation in the community.
California workplace regulators are poised to extend mandatory pay for workers affected by the coronavirus through the end of 2022, more than two months after state lawmakers restored similar benefits through September.
While a Florida judge's Monday ruling that overturned the federal mask mandate for air travel and on public transit was greeted with relief by some, it has also created some confusion in the Bay Area.
Federal prosecutors have charged three people for allegedly aiding a Napa naturopathic doctor who was convicted in a scheme to sell fake COVID-19 vaccine cards and treatments.
California will no longer require masks on public transit and at transit hubs like bus stops and airports following the federal mask mandate for transit being struck down this week.
Now that the federal mask mandate is no longer in effect, that doesn't mean it automatically applies for public transportation agencies like Muni and BART.
Once a required travel companion, COVID masks began disappearing from the faces of travelers at San Francisco International Airport less than 24 hours after the Transportation Security Administration announced it would honor a judge's ruling ending the face-covering mandate on public transit.
People traveling by bus or train in downtown San Francisco Monday were split on whether they'll keep wearing masks after the federal mask mandate was ruled invalid by a federal judge in Florida.
The Transportation Security Administration won't enforce the national mask mandate on planes and public transit for now after a federal judge voided it on Monday, according to an administration official.
With holiday travel soaring and Ramadan, Easter and Passover being celebrated on the same weekend for the first time in years, San Francisco Bay Area residents came together this weekend in large family or religious gatherings in numbers not seen since the outbreak of the COVID pandemic.
Following the lead of districts across the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland officials said they would lift classroom COVID mask mandates at local schools on Monday.
With Passover, Easter and Ramadan happening all at once, houses of worship across the Bay Area are ready for large gatherings for the first time since the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions.
California has no plans to impose new statewide pandemic restrictions despite a rise in coronavirus cases primarily due to the new highly transmissible omicron variant BA.2, the state's top health official says.
California is delaying a coronavirus vaccine mandate for schoochildren until at least the summer of 2023. Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration announced the change on Thursday.
One of Oakland's all-time greats is still waiting for the number retirement ceremony he was promised. It was supposed to happen in 2020, but got delayed by the COVID pandemic.
More than 50 eighth-graders from Marin County tested positive for COVID-19 following a spring break trip to Washington, DC last week, health officials said Wednesday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that mask requirements for public transit and airplanes will remain in effect through at least May 3.
A compromise $10 billion measure buttressing the government's COVID-19 defenses has stalled in the Senate and seemed all but certainly sidetracked for weeks.
Crowds gathered Friday night as the city's biggest art celebration and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's largest fundraiser -- the Art Bash -- returned in-person for the first time since 2019.
A new survey shows Bay Area families are concerned about the impact of COVID-19 on the mental health of children.
