Oakland café closed for coronavirus reopens to manufacture and distribute masks

This comes at a time where six Bay Area counties will require people to cover their faces when going to essential businesses, doing essential work or taking public transportation.

Small businesses struggle as federal relief funding runs dry

The Small Business Administration says its $349 billion Paycheck Protection Program to keep small businesses afloat by keeping paychecks coming, is drained.

Emergency small business fund running low, local businesses are worrying

Democrats blocked a fast-track bid to pass the funding last week, and Republicans in turn stymied their efforts for additional funding for other priorities in a brief debate that was mostly a messaging exercise.