SF Giants announce strict health guidelines to be implemented at Oracle Park

The Giants' maintenance team will work with the Global Biorisk Advisory Council, a division of the International Sanitary Supply Assocation, to protect and maintain the health and safety of the team's players and those working at the ballpark. 

Fifth San Quentin Prison inmate dies from COVID-19 complications

Dewayne Michael Carey, 59 was committed to the California Department of Corrections on Dec. 16, 1996 as a condemned inmate from Los Angeles County for first-degree murder.

Marin County placed on Newsom's COVID-19 watch list

The California Department of Public Health created the watch list to monitor counties in which the COVID-19 situation has changed significantly in recent days.

San Quentin inmate tests positive after being released

A man recently released from San Quentin gave KTVU a first hand account of exposure to COVID-19.

Kimberly Guilfoyle, girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., tests positive for coronavirus

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the girlfriend of Donald Trump Jr., tested positive for coronavirus before a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore with President Trump, according to multiple media reports.

Two more death row inmates die of COVID-19 at San Quentin Prison

Scott Thomas Erskine, 57, had been on California's death row since 2004, and Manuel Machado Alvarez, 59, had been on death row since 1989, both died on July 3, 2020, at outside hospitals.

SFMTA says 40 bus lines are at risk of being halted due to funding constraints

The agency is already running limited service due to the coronavirus, and says about 40 of the bus lines that are suspended are now on track to be permanently halted.

Poignant stories flood in as California's undocumented immigrants seek funds

The calls were so voluminous that on the first day the funds were available, the lines crashed at Catholic Charities, prompting the phone provider to ask: Are you under attack? 

Oakland school leaders share scenarios for reopening schools in the fall

The meeting started about 5 p.m. and was available on Zoom in English, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese until Zoom reached its limit of 1,000 users, prompting school leaders to ask families to watch on YouTube.

After threats from city, Catholic archbishop in SF agrees to obey coronavirus rules

One such gathering occurred last Saturday, where Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone convened about three dozen worshipers to lament what he called the "blasphemous"  toppling of the controversial statue of Junipero Serra.

Mexican state eyes closing US border as COVID-19 cases rise in Arizona

Reacting to a spike in virus cases reported in Arizona, the top health official in the Mexican state of Sonora is asking Mexico’s federal government to temporarily close the border to non-essential visits from the U.S.

U.S. jobs surge despite bleak unemployment figures

The U.S. added 4.8 million jobs to the economy between mid-May and mid-June, according to the Labor Department's jobs report Thursday.