Three people killed in helicopter crash north of San Francisco 

Three people are killed as PG&E helicopter hits 115,000-volt power line and crashes before bursting into flames north of San Francisco Incident occurred outside Fairfield on Tuesday afternoon The aircraft clipped a power line and burst into flames as it fell from the sky The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board are now conducting … Read more

Discovering San Miguel de Allende – the 2019 Cultural Capital of the Americas 

The art and soul of Mexico: Discovering San Miguel de Allende – the 2019 Cultural Capital of the Americas San Miguel de Allende is located two-and-a-half hours north of Mexico City Fabrica La Aurora, an old textile mill, is now San Miguel de Allende’s artistic hub  It is filled with galleries displaying colourful, neo-impressionistic canvasses By … Read more

New photos reveal damage from San Francisco warehouse fire

Dramatic photos have revealed the full extent of damage from a fire that engulfed a warehouse on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf early Saturday morning.  Pictures taken after the blaze was extinguished show the structure destroyed by the fire, with its walls and roof collapsed. The blaze broke out shortly before dawn, sending a thick plume … Read more

Aerial footage shows San Francisco’s first sanctioned camping site for homeless people  

San Francisco has opened its first sanctioned camp site that can house 50 homeless residents this week as locals complain of makeshift tents clogging sidewalks.  After years of struggling to support the homeless community in San Francisco, city officials have erected a ‘Safe Sleeping Village’ in an idle McDonald’s parking lot near City Hall amid the … Read more

San Francisco in the 1918 flu pandemic is a warning against lifting lockdown too soon

Lifting the coronavirus lockdown too soon would risk a devastating second wave of death and disease, American history has proven. San Francisco made that exact error in its battle with the Spanish Flu in 1918-19 and saw the virus surge after calling off a ban on public gatherings after just a month. British Prime Minister … Read more

Coronavirus US: Homeless crowd San Francisco’s tent city

Homeless people on the streets of San Francisco have been pictured gathering dangerously close together amid the coronavirus pandemic. Images show how the communities on the city’s Tenderloin Street are struggling to social distance after the COVID-19 outbreak, with many tents crowded together in spots and people even grouping together to drink and take drugs … Read more