Citing uncertainty caused by threats to cut federal funding to sanctuary cities such as San Francisco, Mayor Ed Lee announced updates to the city’s five-year financial plan. ... Read More
Between November and December of 2016, homicides rose 125 percent across the city, but they dropped 50 percent in the Northern District. Aggravated assaults were unchanged citywide... Read More
Developing housing in San Francisco isn’t easy — for the developer or the neighbors. Case in point: Neighbors around a new Russian Hill development have met with the projec... Read More
The National Park Service put a hold on new rules limiting the presence of dogs in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. NPS said the move came in response to congressional req... Read More
Following the release of a report by the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, District 2 Supervisor Mark Farrell announced his support for charging motorists a toll for d... Read More
A $5 million project to improve the Crissy Field Promenade is scheduled to kick off in the middle of this month and last through the summer. The Golden Gate National Recreation Are... Read More
Local residents got some insight into the new Francisco Park, which will replace the long-unused Francisco Reservoir, at an early February community meeting held by the Francisco P... Read More
An ornate, multidomed house at 2963 Webster Street at Filbert, known as the first Hindu temple in the Western world, is being renovated. Dedicated Jan. 7, 1906, it avoided the deba... Read More
The city’s thousands of Muni bus and train riders were frustrated in much of January by the glitchy upgrade of the system’s networking equipment from 2G to 3G service. ... Read More
President Donald Trump campaigned in part on a promise to deport millions of undocumented immigrants and to punish sanctuary cities by cutting federal funds to cities that curtail ... Read More
Where else besides the pages of the Marina Times do you find supervisors Aaron Peskin and Mark Farrell side by side? In late January, they appeared together at a press conference c... Read More
A woman crossing the street at Union and Buchanan was hit by a truck a little after noon on Jan. 11. She was taken to San Francisco General Hospital, where she died. According to B... Read More
After an extended search, filmmaker George Lucas has chosen Los Angeles over the Bay Area as the home for his new self-funded Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Despite fairly broad su... Read More
San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee announced his selection of Bill Scott as the city’s new police chief in December. Scott, previously the deputy chief of the Los Angeles police departme... Read More
San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera announced in late December an agreement on a proposed settlement of the city’s suit against Academy of Art University that would settle... Read More