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Bay Briefing: You told us how the past year changed you - heres our readers stories FacebookTwitterEmail ?Patricia Rose, 70, sits for a photo during her walk near Billy Goat Hill in San Francisco, Calif., on Monday, March 8, 2021.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, March 17, and a young humpback whale is currently making its home in the Bay. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. ‘So here I am, a year later. And I’m not alone’ Ho...

Bay Briefing: The coldest case in San Francisco FacebookTwitterEmail Jae Stevens (left) was a drag entertainer allegedly killed by the Doodler. The killer, shown in a police sketch, was never caught.Chronicle photo illustration / The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Tuesday, March 16, and last year, one man re-entered the world just as everything was shutting down. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. The Doodler During a tumultuous time in San Francisco more than 45 years ...

Bay Briefing: How a year of coexisting with COVID changed our lives FacebookTwitterEmail Nurse LeShay Brown gives California Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly the COVID-19 vaccine.Damian Dovarganes / Associated Press Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Monday, March 15, and all of the Bay Area’s nine counties have advanced into the red reopening tier. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. The year that upended our lives One year ago, our understanding of a mysterious n...

Skip to main content Currently Reading A major Bay Area street is getting renamed as part of our racial reckoning - but its complicated FacebookTwitterEmail 2of2 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Larkspur.Anna Buchmann / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less A long and winding debate over renaming the long and winding Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in Marin County appears headed to a conclusion — a patchwork approach that will leave the old name in some places, scrap it in others, and give it a second na...

Bay Briefing: The lost year FacebookTwitterEmail Frida Ibarra, 31, sets up her laptop for DJing inside her new apartment in Oakland.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Friday, March 12, and a year ago, our editor in chief sent us home. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. One year on The past year has been one of incomprehensible loss. There is that number, of course: 530,000 dead and counting, difficult to comprehend on a human scale. And then...

Bay Briefing: Stopping development of new neighborhoods before they can burn FacebookTwitterEmail White fencing is seen along Butts Canyon Road where a home-development is being considered in Middletown, California Wednesday, Mar. 3, 2021. The 1,400 home project is being challenged by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra in court for the sites Guenoc Valley location is considered a high fire risk zone.Stephen Lam / The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Wednesday, March 10, and summ...

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Bay Briefing: How Californias vaccine rollout will change (again) FacebookTwitterEmail S.F. State student nurse Havin Lim prepares to give Shelia Auzenne, 68, a COVID-19 vaccination.Stephen Lam/The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Friday, March 5, and Bay Area baseball fans have gotten a pandemic culture shock at Arizona’s spring training games. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Coronavirus updates What’s behind California’s switching up its vaccine distribution ag...

Bay Briefing: How S.F.s Japantown could disappear FacebookTwitterEmail The Japan Center Mall sits at the heart of San Francisco’s Japantown, one of the last in the country.Marlena Sloss / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Thursday, Mar. 4, and California is changing the way it allocates vaccines, aiming to address inequities. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. Dozens of businesses under threat San Francisco’s Japantown has persisted, even as others thro...