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For the first time in nearly six months, San Francisco hotels will also be allowed to fully reopen for business Monday and they will not be alone.
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For the first time in nearly six months, San Francisco hotels will also be allowed to fully reopen for business Monday and they will not be alone.
A plume of unhealthy, smoke-filled air sent skyward by dozens of wildfires burning across the West Coast has forced local residents to remain shuttered indoors this weekend. Here is a roundup of the latest smoke-related stories from KPIX.com and the KPIX 5 news team.
There are currently a total of 28 active fires in California helping to fill San Francisco Bay Area skies with unhealthy levels of smoke and forcing local residents to remain indoors.
Some parents have been wondering if it's better to take your children outside to get some exercise, instead of staying inside for days even if the air is considered unhealthy.
There is plenty of confusion when it comes to Air Quality Index readings during this time of smoke-filled skies from the historic outbreak of wildfires. There are numbers everywhere. Purple Air. Air Now. So what are the best numbers?
First it was the COVID-19 pandemic that kept San Francisco Bay Area residents struck in their homes. On Saturday, it was a massive plume of wildfire smoke and ash stalled over the region.
With empty tables, deserted parks, and very slow streets, for the second day in a row, the bad air gave San Francisco an emptiness that felt more like the start of the shutdown.
San Francisco is forging ahead with school reopening plans, with thousands of students set to attend in-person classes at "community hubs" at 40 sites citywide, beginning Monday, September 14.
Air quality deteriorated to the 'very unhealthy' level early Friday in the San Francisco Bay Area as a plume of smoke and ash from wildfires raging across the West remained stalled overhead and combined with fog to cast the region's skies in a sickly color of gray.
Friday night's game between the San Francisco Giants and San Diego Padres was postponed minutes before the scheduled first pitch.
About 8,800 unaccompanied children have been quickly expelled from the United States along the Mexico border under a pandemic-related measure that effectively ended asylum, authorities said Friday.
A man arrested for allegedly assaulting a 75-year-old man with a metal pipe in San Francisco's Tenderloin last month has been charged with murder after the victim died from his injuries, police said.
A shooting in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood on Thursday night wounded three people, including a 19-year-old who suffered life-threatening injuries.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District extended Spare the Air restrictions through Monday, Sept. 14, stretching the record-breaking streak to 28 days.
San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency officials said Wednesday that the agency is proposing the installation of temporary emergency transit-only lanes along Geary Boulevard in the city's Richmond District.
The dramatic skies produced by unprecedented West Coast wildfire smoke have left everyone stunned, with even those who have long been ringing climate alarm bells looking for the right words.
There are many different ways to get those Air Quality Index numbers that have been giving Bay Area residents an indication of just how bad the air is.
San Francisco announced Thursday that the city will allow personal services and indoor gyms to reopen for limited indoor operations next Monday after the months-long closure caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The number of new HIV cases in San Francisco continues to reach record lows, according to a report released Thursday by the city's Department of Public Health.
California State University, the country's largest four-year public university system, said Thursday that classes at its 23 campuses will stay primarily online when the next term begins in January due to expected increases in coronavirus cases later this year.
Skies darkened by wildfire smoke created an otherworldly glow on Wednesday that can be seen in photos taken across the Bay Area by KPIX staff and viewers.
The eerie, smoke-choked skies that hung over Northern California on September 9, 2020, made for an otherworldly day in a year like no other that no one will soon forget.
A roof fire was contained Wednesday evening at a multi-unit residential building in the 1400 block of Waller Street in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, officials said.
A man who coordinates the distribution of up to 20,000 tons of food in San Francisco each week is the Bay Area's latest Jefferson Award winner.
Prop C, the 2018 initiative that taxes wealthy San Francisco businesses to pay for homeless service, became law Wednesday after the California Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to it.
