• Housing advocates say it's increasingly common for Bay Area landlords to reject subtenant applications from master tenants in rent-controlled units in order to force them out and raise the rent. [East Bay Express]
  • A 40,000-bee hive that took root over a lengthy period in the outside walls of Castro home was carefully removed by a bee expert this week. [Hoodline]
  • A growing homeless encampment at 9th and Brannan was cleared on Thursday. [Mission Local]
  • A local bride, married last weekend in the Presidio, is heartbroken after the wedding photographer's car got broken into and the camera with all the wedding photos on it was stolen. [CBS 5]
  • San Francisco will no longer house its homelessness department at 440 Turk St. in the Tenderloin, instead opting to use the building for an around-the-clock resource center with access to laundry, showers, bathrooms and more. [Examiner]
  • An Oakland company has developed a usable marijuana breathalyzer for field sobriety tests, but critics of these devices have long contended that measuring THC levels can not predict impairment, especially with longtime pot smokers. [ABC 7]
  • Meanwhile a citywide moratorium on new medical pot shops was just recommended at the SF Planning Commission. [Examiner]
  • Some local reactions to SF native OJ Simpson's getting parole. [ABC 7] [KRON 4]
  • As you may or may not have heard, the Palace of Fine Arts now home to a drone sports arena. [ABC 7]
  • A federal judge in SF says he will not dismiss sanctuary city lawsuits brought by San Francisco and Santa Clara County, following a request from Jeff Sessions. [Chronicle]
  • Residents packed a meeting of the Police Commission to oppose SFPD's proposed Taser use. [Examiner]
  • SoMa is now officially SF’s most valuable neighborhood for taxable property. [Chronicle]