Families with loved ones inside nursing homes during pandemic cope with anxiety

Nursing homes- with their vulnerable residents- might seem ideal for COVID-19 testing. But critics say testing is spotty at best, and often launched only after people are sick and dying. 

Sales suggest cannabis delivery business thriving during pandemic

Marijuana's unofficial holiday, 4-20, went virtual this year as public gatherings were banned and the traditional "smoke-outs" moved to group chats and social media. 

Masks are now mandatory in parts of the Bay Area

Sonoma County, Marin County, and the city of Fremont have already announced new rules enforcing the use of face coverings in public. Other Bay Area counties are considering similar measures as the shelter in place order is set to expire on May 4.

H.S. senior delivers food to his immunocompromised former 5th grade teacher

A high-school senior is paying back his fifth-grade teacher who is immunocompromised by delivering her healthy foods as she is sheltering at home during the pandemic.

Deputies arrest car theft suspect tracked from Sonoma to Novato

The auto theft was reported to Sonoma police between 6 and 6:30 p.m. and sheriff's deputies spotted and pursued the vehicle, but called it off "due to the suspect's increasingly reckless driving behavior."

Domestic violence crimes increase during pandemic

As people shelter in place, crime is decreasing in most categories. But not domestic violence. 

3 new COVID-19 deaths reported in Marin County, 6 additional cases

At least three other people have died from novel coronavirus and six new cases were reported in Marin County as of Monday afternoon, county health officials said.

Medical students organize supply donation drive at Marin Co.’s Bon Air Shopping Center

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. 

Coronavirus crisis keeps Bay Area schools closed until May

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

Bay Area counties order labs to report more data from COVID-19 tests

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.

San Francisco-Marin Food Bank opening 7 more pop-up pantries

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.