This is more than just a symbolic resolution, because the city owns the building, and the SF Board of Supervisors promised that the currently closed Mission Cultural Center will stay put and reopen no matter what.
Nine people have been killed in a school shooting in Canada; the Alameda County Board of Supervisors heard public comments about Flock cameras Tuesday; and Shasta County is seeing a measles outbreak.
San Francisco public school educators made national headlines Tuesday as they announced plans to bring a human banner to Ocean Beach the following day, with talks between union and district representatives slowly progressing and other unions across the state considering similar action.
The Trump administration tore down the Pride flag at Stonewall; turns out the pastor who did the Bad Bunny halftime show wedding is from Sacramento; and the SF teachers’ strike will indeed barrel into Wednesday.
I truly hope the billionaires all someday have to perform elaborate mea culpas — or be brought up on charges! — for colluding and sucking up to Trump in this era. And notably this week, former liberal Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly seeking a new piece of real estate in Miami.
A federal judge has shot down state Senator Scott Wiener’s ban on ICE agents wearing masks, because of wonky new amendments that Wiener and Governor Newsom added to it, constituting a classic Democratic political screw-up.
A woman reportedly suffered severe burns and was hospitalized after a fire broke out in her overstuffed, single-room occupancy apartment unit in North Beach on Tuesday.
In the deputies’ defense, the man they shot had called 911, claimed that he had a gun, and said that he intended to harm people with it. But when the smoke had cleared, it turns out the man was just carrying a pipe.
In reporting on what is otherwise good news for BART, the Chronicle couldn't help today but to throw cold water on things and sensationalize the agency's financial woes once more.
Frustrated parents of SF schoolkids are speaking out in the media, and union reps are keeping up a brave face as a potential third day of the San Francisco teachers' strike looms.
Opening statements started Monday in a trial where plaintiffs allege that Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are acting as ‘digital casinos’ designing their platforms to addict kids, and Zuckerberg will be forced to testify.
Some more details have been reported about how 49ers defensive lineman Keion White ended up being shot in the ankle early Monday morning in the Mission District.
This will be a wet week around the Bay after a long dry spell; Mission food vendors are mad about being shooed off for Super Bowl week; and Sam Smith kicks off a monthlong Castro residency.
49ers DL Keion White was shot in the ankle at an SF nightclub early Monday; Richard Tillman, the brother of Pat Tillman, has pleaded guilty to setting fire to a San Jose post office; and Scott Wiener denies snubbing Mayor Lurie.
A sleepy race to succeed Gavin Newsom as California Governor just got a little bit of a jolt, as Senator Adam Schiff publicly put his chips on East Bay House Representative Eric Swalwell.
After knocking the 49ers out of the playoffs, the Seattle Seahawks rubbed it in even harder after winning the Super Bowl Sunday night on the Niners' home field, hotboxing the 49ers locker room with the awful smell of cigars.
The latest ‘Show me your papers’ bully move from the Trump administration seems to want immigrants out of any supportive housing that receives federal funding, and they're demanding citizenship checks of Section 8 residents.
After a rally in Civic Center, and as negotiations continued between reps for the SF Unified School District and the United Educators of San Francisco, the district announced that schools would remain closed a second day on Tuesday.
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After apparent shots were fired Monday morning, police responded to a residential street in Oakland's Pill Hill neighborhood, where an armed suspect has reportedly barricaded themselves inside an apartment.
Conservative sports bros rolled into SF for the Super Bowl declaring “We’ve been told this place is a sh*thole.” After seeing the sights and taking in some Square Pie Guys, they were singing the city’s praises.
There was a minor cable car accident Monday on the Hyde Street line, the circumstances of which are not entirely clear, and two passengers were reportedly treated for injuries.
A San Francisco Fire Department rescue team succeeded in saving a dog named Kobe who jumped into the Bay Sunday afternoon chasing a bird and then became trapped under a pier with nowhere to get out of the water.
There was a fatal shooting early Monday on SF's Rincon Hill, near the entrance to the Bay Bridge, that left one person dead.
A Sunday night shooting in downtown San Jose in the hours after a Super Bowl watch party there left five people injured, but all are expected to survive.
SF schoolkids are all home from school today amid the first teachers' strike in 47 years; Steve Hilton is now targeting Republican opponent Chad Bianco; and Dave Chappelle struck a note of togetherness in Chase Center set.
