Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 101, a budget trailer bill, that includes provisions to ensure navigation center homeless shelters in the state will be approved as long as they meet ... Read More
A late 2020 completion is expected for the new Francisco Park, which has begun construction on its site between Larkin and Hyde Streets south of Bay Street. San Francisco’s newes... Read More
$250 million: Amount sought in a defamation suit filed by representative Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) against Twitter and three accounts, including “Devin Nunes’ Cow” and “Devin ... Read More
Marco Mejia saw a perfect opportunity: Late-night patrons coming out of bars around Union and Buchanan Streets. They’re a bit drunk, quite a bit hungry. His solution of parking a... Read More
At the heart of San Francisco’s tremendous and controversial growth over the past decade has been tech-fueled companies that rely on cheap and on-demand employees to do much of t... Read More
The auto burglary scourge continues. From Jan. 1 through July 14, there were 2,791 auto burglaries on the Northside, according to Northern Station. For the same time period last ye... Read More
$1,200: monthly rent for a bunk bed in a dormitory-style setting at PodShare’s San Francisco housing . . . $628.5 million: amount of a bond for earthquake safety and emergency re... Read More
After 17 months of proposals, submissions, refinements, and public input, the Presidio Trust’s board of directors in June went back to square one, rejecting a proposal submitted ... Read More
With former prosecutor and District 2 Supervisor Catherine Stefani the only dissenting vote, San Francisco supervisors overwhelmingly approved a bill to ban the use of facial recog... Read More
In her two-year budget proposal, Mayor London Breed added $11.9 million to efforts to clean San Francisco’s streets. The money would fund seven new staffed Pit Stop public toilet... Read More
The Discover Polk Community Benefit District launched monthly Only on Polk Summer Saturdays, with participating shops flying an “Only on Polk” flag and offering discounts and s... Read More
One-third: Percentage of U.S. pets that are overweight, according to Banfield Pet Hospital . . . 430: Number of burglaries year-to-date in Northern Station’s part of the city .... Read More
An attempt to bestow the name of Rose Pak on the Central Subway’s Chinatown station has hit some bumps in recent months. District 3 Supervisor Aaron Peskin has proposed the namin... Read More
Third: the Bay Area has the nation’s third largest homeless population in the United States . . . Second: If Silicon Valley were a country, it would be the second-richest nation ... Read More
Another auto burglary catch May 17, 7:10 p.m. Japantown Officers were conducting auto burglary surveillance when they witnessed some subjects driving a vehicle and casing various p... Read More