U.S. Census Bureau Delays Field Operations 2 Weeks Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
The U.S. Census Bureau is delaying all field operations as a result of the nation's efforts to delay the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.
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The U.S. Census Bureau is delaying all field operations as a result of the nation's efforts to delay the spread of the deadly novel coronavirus.
A rapid test to detect the coronavirus, developed by Cepheid -- a Sunnyvale company, has been given "emergency use authorization" by Food and Drug Administration, officials said Saturday.
The tsunami of news about the current coronavirus outbreak and now the shelter-in-place can be overwhelming. To help you navigate through what you need to know -- KPIX.com/KPIX 5 News/CBSN Bay Area -- will be publishing a news roundup each morning of the top coronavirus-related stories from the last 24 hours so you can start your day with the latest developments impacting you, your family and your daily life.
Bay Area healthcare workers say they desperately need more personal protective equipment as the coronavirus epidemic expands while medical supplies shrink.
In a time of quarantines and stay-at-home orders, should a gun store be considered an "essential business?"
The California National Guard has been deployed to a Sacramento warehouse to distribute food at food banks, according to the governor's office.
Before the coronavirus changed the way people live in San Francisco and elsewhere, the City was already facing several crises. Homelessness and a drug epidemic were the big stories on city streets.
Communities of faith shuttered by the emergency prohibition barring large public gatherings have been forced to get creative to connect with and minister to their congregations.
The pungent smell of garlic, an annual Spring ritual in the Salinas Valley, will be missing this year as organizers of the famed Gilroy Garlic Festival announced Friday they were cancelling the 2020 event.
With the coronavirus forcing many California school districts to emphasize online learning, some students are facing a major challenge: they still don't have computers.
More than two dozen inmates are being released from San Francisco county jails as part of the coronavirus public health emergency, the San Francisco Sheriff's Office said Friday.
Facing a surge in patients, Walnut Creek's John Muir Health on Friday announced the closing of three urgent care centers in San Ramon, Orinda and Concord.
As Illinois and New York state joined California on Friday in ordering all residents to stay in their homes to help stem the coronavirus spread, local leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area were wrestling over how to enforce the order.
A member of the Oakland Police Department has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the department's first reported case.
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf on Friday announced the launch of an emergency relief fund to serve the city's most vulnerable residents and first responders during the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Health officials in Santa Clara County on Friday confirmed two new deaths from COVID-19, bringing the toll for the county to eight.
Officials with Google announced on Friday that concerns over the coronavirus have led the company to cancel plans to hold the annual Google I/O developers conference "in any capacity."
San Jose police on Friday announced it will begin enforcing Santa Clara County's health department order on sheltering at home and shutdown of non-essential businesses to stop the coronavirus spread.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered the temporary suspension of cash toll collection at the San Francisco Bay Area's seven state-owned bridges in order to minimize the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.
Ten additional COVID-19 coronavirus cases were reported in Marin County Thursday, boosting the number of cases to 25.
With a huge decline in the number passengers as a result of the coronavirus shelter at home orders, Bay Area Rapid Transit will be ending service at 9 p.m. daily beginning next week, the agency announced.
San Francisco's renowned Bay to Breakers footrace, normally held on the third Sunday in May, will be pushed to the fall because of the escalating coronavirus outbreak, organizers announced Friday.
Contra Costa health officials announced Friday that a patient in their 70s being treated in a local hospital has died of complications from the coronavirus, the county's first death during the current virus outbreak.
The federal income tax filing deadline has been pushed back from April 15 to July 15, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced Friday.
Express lane tolls on Bay Area freeways are being suspended through at least April 7 due to a dramatic decline in traffic caused by the shelter-in-place order.
