Confusion grew in California as businesses struggled to understand locally issued shelter-in-place and other COVID-19 related directives and orders that onsite work could continue only at “essential” or vital services, which make exceptions for certain construction.
Records of utility, contractors and others are sought in a widening investigation stemming from federal criminal charges filed against the city's public works director.
San Francisco International Airport plans to construct a perimeter seawall to protect low-elevation runways, terminals and other facilities from rising sea levels.
San Francisco on June 4 hired a financial advisor as it considers buying distribution assets from the beleaguered utility Pacific Gas & Electric, which filed for voluntary bankruptcy protection in January as it faced more than $30 billion in liabilities stemming from 2017 and 2018 wildfires that burned many thousands of acres and destroyed thousands of structures.