Coronavirus

The program offers each adult $500 to be distributed through nonprofit groups in an effort to protect recipients from providing personal information that might cost them other benefits or increase their danger of being deported.

Buffets, salad bars and shared bread baskets would be out. Salt and pepper shakers could be replaced by bottles of hand sanitizer. And meals could arrive from food servers sheathed in face masks.

Since the stay-at-home order was issued on March 19, more than 4 million people have been thrown out of work in the nation’s most populous state.

The study might help answer how many people might have had the novel coronavirus in the Bay Area and whether infections began as early as December.

On Wednesday, the San Jose Police department honored its fallen officers in a virtual ceremony. It’s the first time in the department’s history, the service was held this way due to the pandemic.

It was supposed to be published last Friday, but agency scientists were told the guidance “would never see the light of day,” according to a CDC official.

California will be refunded $247 million it paid to a Chinese company under a major deal for protective masks after the company failed to meet a deadline for federal certification of the masks, Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration said Wednesday.

Some Californians applying for unemployment during the coronavirus pandemic are facing delays and confusion because of issues with the debit cards issued by the Employment Development Department and Bank of America. 

The department said the drugs "help guests successfully complete isolation and quarantine and have significant individual and public health benefits in the COVID-19 pandemic."

Arianna Ibarra of San Jose has a lot to be upset about; her father's death on top of coronavirus taking away her high school graduation ceremony.

A growing number of businesses around the state and nation continue to openly defy orders that they keep their non-essential businesses closed until coronavirus science informed officials say they can open.

Movie studios aren't really releasing new movies right now, so the drive-ins are screening movies that were still being shown in late February.

Less than a decade from the dizzying heights of an initial public offering, many tech service industry companies are now crashing back to earth, hard.

Half a million salon and barber professionals plan to sue California Gov. Gavin Newsom, demanding to re-open their businesses. It comes on the heels of threats from the state to pull the licenses of any salons violating shelter in place orders and offering haircuts.

Long before the crisis, the Tenderloin neighborhood faced many challenges, but COVID-19 has led to a renewed focus on how to support unsheltered residents.