San Francisco has become the first US city to ban e-cigarette sales until their health effects are clearer. Officials on Tuesday voted to ban stores selling the vaporisers and made it illegal for online retailers to deliver to addresses in the city. The California city is home to Juul Labs, …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors moved a step closer Tuesday to becoming the first city in the U.S. to ban all sales of electronic cigarettes to crack down on youth vaping. Supervisors unanimously approved a ban on the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes. They also endorsed a ban …
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. City and state officials on Monday announced a bill that would give San Francisco the authority to establish a toll and reservation system for the …
Uber and Lyft are still crushing transit across the U.S, according to new study examining the effects in 22 cities. When Uber and Lyft enter a city, the app-based taxis decrease rail ridership by 1.29 percent per year and decrease bus ridership by 1.7 percent, the study by three University …
Homeowners must fix problems related to cracked window ASAP The hits just keep coming at Millennium Tower, as both the San Francisco Chronicle and ABC 7 report that the Department of Building Inspection has threatened to yellow tag the exclusive but exclusively faulty high-rise if homeowners don’t fix several critical problems ASAP. Last week, a …
For years, tech employees of companies in Silicon Valley have enjoyed free meals around the clock. That’s changing — at least in Mountain View, Calif., where the city is banning the social media giant Facebook from offering free food in its newest office building. Currently, Facebook’s main campus in Menlo …
× FILE – In this Feb. 21, 2012, file photo, parrots stop for some seed and an apple at the home of Joe Sulley in Brisbane, Calif. (Brant Ward /San Francisco Chronicle via AP, File) SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco’s famous birds immortalized in the book and movie “The …
A vending machine at San Francisco’s airport dispenses vests. The practical outerwear is favored among Bay Area venture-capital investors. A representative for San Francisco International Airport told Business Insider that the vest vending machine averaged $10,000 in sales a month. San Francisco’s airport has a vending machine that dispenses vests— the …
San Francisco’s streets are so filthy that at least one infectious disease expert has compared the city to some of the dirtiest slums in the world. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed 153 blocks of the city in February, finding giant mounds of trash and food on the majority …
The sky-high rent and cost of living that we’ve come to expect from the Bay Area might have finally taken their toll on a large proportion of residents. More residents are leaving San Francisco than any other city in the country, according to data from real estate website Redfin. A …
Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi, will be inhabited in January, signaling tech’s triumph in the city. SAN FRANCISCO — The skyscraper came late to this city, a shipping and manufacturing hub for much of its existence. The wealthy roosted on …
FILE – In this Aug. 7, 2017 file photo, is an overview of the Presidio Terrace neighborhood in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Residents of an exclusive San Francisco neighborhood who failed to pay taxes on their private, gated street for two decades got the street back Tuesday after …