Coronavirus

The City of Palo Alto has plans to close another downtown street for outdoor dining and retail. However, not all businesses think closing streets to traffic is a win. Some business owners said it’s economically unfair.

Statewide, there are 524,722 confirmed coronavirus cases, and 9,703 deaths. That's up from 519,427 cases and 9,501 deaths on Tuesday.

At least 100,000 devices can be ready to arrive through the back-to-school time frame, according to Apple and T-Mobile. The companies expect to be able to fulfill school district demand through the end of this year. 

Public transportation agencies around the Bay Area, along with their counterparts across the country say they have been devastated economically by COVID-19.

Police arrested two adults accused of operating a low level meth lab at a San Francisco hotel designated as a safe shelter for people on quarantine, at risk for COVID-19, or without housing.

CalREDIE, also known as California Reportable Disease Information Exchange, is used by state and local health departments to tally up coronavirus test results, but recent data from the registry system may be flawed. 

San Mateo County has authorized fines for individuals and businesses that violate COVID-19 rules, such as not wearing a mask in certain area.

Nurses, respiratory therapists, lab workers and other health care workers in the Bay Area are taking part in a National Day of Action organized by their unions, to protest what they say is a lack of government action to protect people against Covid-19.

A Bay Area tech investor has posted a job opening seeking a teacher to instruct his child and a handful of others in the backyard of his San Francisco home, for what’s become a highly controversial learning model brought on by the pandemic.

In San Jose, teachers have been told they must teach in empty classrooms with few exceptions. One teacher, Taunya Jaco isn’t planning to return anytime soon, educating her students from home.

 Without throngs of patrons, Chinatown's restaurants are not even a shadow of what one would expect.

With the Coronavirus draining much of the joy and color from the world these days, a small group of florists in San Ramon are trying to put some of it back, for people who perhaps need it most--those who are tucked away in senior care homes.

After weeks of increasing infection and hospitalization rates, those numbers are starting to retreat, but the city's public health director said it's too soon to loosen any of the latest restrictions.