Marin County

Crowds and close contact alarmed officials who saw social distancing precautions disappear.

In the parking lot of the Bon Air Shopping Center in Marin County Friday, people dropped by to donate N95 masks and gloves to help keep safe the doctors, nurses and health workers on the front lines of the pandemic. 

A man in his 70s who was hospitalized for three weeks is the first COVID-19 death in Marin County, health officials said on Friday. 

Community spirit has emerged in nations hard-hit by COVID-19.

Officials announced on Wednesday that public school districts in six Bay Area counties are extending closures through May amid the coronavirus crisis. 

Seven Bay Area governments Tuesday ordered all commercial and academic medical labs to begin expanding the kind of data they report from tests involving the novel coronavirus.

The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is opening seven additional free pop-up pantries this week to provide healthy food during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Two Milpitas firefighters and one of their spouses have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the city's Fire Department announced Monday.

All public parks in Marin County—from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area down to the smallest town parks - were ordered closed Sunday by authorities to stem the tide of visitors during California's stay at home order. 

Officials with the National Park Service and Point Reyes National Seashore announced late Saturday night that most areas of the Marin County national preserve would be closed starting Sunday for a little more than two weeks.

The Marin County Sheriff's Office is urging residents to stay inside their homes and adhere to California's shelter-in-place order. 

It was the largest single-day increase since the county's first case was reported on March 4.

Two more Marin County residents have tested positive for COVID-19, the coronavirus, bringing that county's total cases to five, the Marin County Department of Health and Human Services said Saturday.

Two more cases of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) have been confirmed in Marin County, bringing the total to three, county officials said Wednesday. 

Spokesman Darryl E. Waller said the "mandatory telework status" is temporary, but "our work continues." 

Mental health professionals across the Bay Area are hearing from people, alarmed about possibly catching the virus themselves.  But experts say it's important to keep perspective- while taking precautions. 

Anyone with information should call Tiburon police.

Voters in Sonoma and Marin counties rejected a 30-year extension of a quarter-cent sales tax for the operation of the Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit's SMART train system.