15+ hour, 42+ min ago   (885+ words) The San Francisco Democratic Party has raised more money, per resident and registered Democratic voter, than any other local party in California as it enters the 2026 election season, according to campaign finance data. The local party, known as the Democratic…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (655+ words) The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 Tuesday to place a measure on the November ballot that would be a step towards creating the first city-run public bank in the country. A public bank would let the city issue low-cost…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (665+ words) San Francisco police officers, as they do each year, moved block by block and dispersed the hundreds of people who gathered on the streets of the Mission District for the annual July 4 fireworks shows. Dispersal orders came earlier than in…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (1021+ words) San Francisco’s website informs visitors that, if they are unsure whether a suspicious vehicle or uniformed officer is immigration enforcement, or if a friend or family member has been detained and needs legal help, they should call 415-200-1548, the hotline for…...

2+ mon, 22+ hour ago   (879+ words) On Monday, the scales of justice worked, for once, like a well-oiled machine, though the usual mechanisms of law and order were circumvented. To paraphrase a classic noir: There are a thousand bike thefts in the city. This is one…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (305+ words) All weekend, we’re out in the streets — the marches, the stages, the block parties — feeding this post snapshots, sounds and scenes as they unfold. Follow along for Pride in real time, one dispatch at a time. Need a game plan?...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (123+ words) I'm a copy editor and a Bay Area native who’s lived in San Francisco since 2004. I've written for local publications like the SF Weekly, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco magazine, as well as the New Yorker,…...

3+ mon, 12+ hour ago   (424+ words) Two people were found dead on San Francisco streets Wednesday morning within an hour of each other. At around 5:31 a.m. police officers responded to a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian near Brannan and Seventh streets in SoMa and found…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago   (994+ words) San Francisco’s Proposition D, dubbed the “Overpaid CEO Tax,” is still hanging on to a sliver of a chance of passing as of early Wednesday morning, after initial results. But things were not looking great: The measure, which would increase…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (385+ words) Before professional athletes play for the 2026 World Cup, this year’s Carnaval Parade shut down 20 blocks of San Francisco’s Latino Cultural District in the Mission to celebrate “La Copa del Pueblo,” the People’s Cup. The parade bottled the energy of a…...