reopening the bay area

Thousands of student athletes are celebrating after California gave the green light for outdoor sports to return. However, thousands more involved in indoor sports are still waiting to get back in the game.

Most Bay Area counties are easing restrictions, but at different degrees. It’s hard to keep track of what’s happening where. So we broke it down for you here.

As California’s coronavirus cases continue to decline, the state may be moving toward easing restrictions soon.

San Francisco Unified School District and unions were expected to meet Tuesday and discuss a tentative agreement to resume in-person classes. However, the meeting was delayed a week and is now taking place Feb. 23.

The city of San Francisco took a dramatic step Wednesday in its effort to get children back into public school classrooms, suing its own school district to try to force open the doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Berkeley is giving middle schools and high schools the thumbs up to reopen Monday, but only if schools have a COVID-19 safety plan.

San Francisco will temporarily halt the reopening of additional activities and businesses planned for this week because of an increase in coronavirus case rates and hospitalizations, the city’s mayor and health director said Friday.

The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk could become the first amusement park in California to reopen, but it needs to overcome some hurdles before letting people back in.

While much of the nation is seeing a spike in coronavirus cases, the Bay Area continues to see a flattening of the curve and is lifting more restrictions as a result.

Shortly after California laid out reopening guidelines for outdoor professional sporting events and theme parks Tuesday, Santa Clara County made it clear that it will be taking a slower approach to reopening those venues to the public.

Infectious disease experts and epidemiologists from universities like Stanford, Yale, Harvard and Oxford say current shelter-in-place policies are not effectively protecting vulnerable people from COVID-19, while devastating public health in ways that will lead to irreparable harm for years to come.

San Francisco officials Friday announced a plan to reopen indoor dining across the city, a move that will come once it shifts into the state’s orange tier, which could happen by Oct. 1.

For months, the city of San Francisco health order has prevented local gyms from opening its doors, but some city-owned gyms have been back open for months and are allowing city employees to use them, crushing private gym owners.

It’s been five months since the National Park Service paused operations at Pier 33 and Alcatraz. But on Monday morning, the first charter since that shutdown headed for the island with passengers onboard and restrictions in place. Cierra Johnson reports.

Some Bay Area school districts are planning to keep students at home in the fall with 100% distance learning programs, and it’s not going over well with parents.

San Francisco restaurants suffered another setback on Tuesday as Mayor London Breed announced a delay to the scheduled return of indoor dining due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the city.  Restaurants were scheduled to reopen for indoor dining on July 13, along with outdoor bars. But the mayor said those plans were scuttled following an alarming increase in…

The state has rejected Santa Clara County’s request to move into the next phase of reopening during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report in the Mercury News.

As patrons in San Francisco return to restaurants Friday to dine outside, some may find themselves eating and drinking while separated from their fellow diners by thin plexiglass shields. It may be the look of the future.

As businesses begin to reopen, on supervisor in San Francisco says that employers should be required to hire back laid off workers in a move that critics say is economically impossible.

As San Francisco Mayor London Breed unveiled Thursday her four-tiered timeline for reopening the city’s businesses, Kevin DeMattia, owner of Emperor Norton’s Boozeland found his bar business at the far end of that list — mid-August.