Marking a new daily high, Los Angeles County health officials on Tuesday reported 4,015 new coronavirus cases along with continued increases in hospitalizations and testing positivity rates in California’s most populous county.
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Aiming to recharge a faltering tourism economy hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic, San Francisco city officials on Tuesday unanimously approved a set of aggressive new cleaning standards for hotels and large office buildings.
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District attorneys in three major American cities will host truth and reconciliation commissions intent on giving voice to citizens who have suffered from police violence or prosecutorial overreach.
Read moreA coalition of landlords and realtors is fighting to overturn a San Francisco law that permanently bans the eviction of tenants who cannot pay rent due to Covid-19-related financial struggles.
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San Francisco could become the first major city in the United States to let 16- and 17-year-old residents vote in municipal elections if approved by the city’s adult voters in a November 2020 ballot initiative.
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A newspaper carrier was improperly classified as an independent contractor by the Hearst Communications media company, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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A permit expediter has agreed to plead guilty to conspiracy charges and cooperate with investigators in a corruption scandal that took down one of San Francisco’s highest-ranking government officials.
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San Francisco is one step closer to opening one of the nation’s first safe injection sites after the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a law that will permit nonprofits to operate facilities where people can inject illegal drugs under medical supervision.
Read moreA group of residents and merchants in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district have settled their lawsuit blaming the the city for street conditions that have made their neighborhood unlivable.
Read moreA Chinese medical researcher accused of sharing secrets with the Chinese military on a U.S. government-funded laboratory project in San Francisco was arrested in Los Angeles this week and charged with lying on his visa application.
Read moreAmid nationwide protests against police brutality after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, San Francisco on Thursday unveiled a roadmap for police reforms that local officials say could become a model for law enforcement agencies across the nation.
Read moreSan Francisco will start offering compensation to victims of police violence, regardless of whether officers involved are prosecuted for assault or found to have used excessive force, the city’s progressive district attorney Chesa Boudin announced Tuesday.
Read moreA San Francisco public official and two contractors were charged with crimes relating to an investigation into corruption at San Francisco’s City Hall, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. The charges relate to the arrest of the city’s Public Works director, Mohammed Nuru, who was charged in January in connection to a bribery scheme.
Read moreThousands of people from San Francisco, the greater Bay Area and beyond flocked to the city’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge on Saturday to march against police brutality, demanding that systemic racism be put to an end.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and county leaders said Thursday they will drop nightly curfew orders issued in response to protests that have roiled the region, hours after Black Lives Matter and the ACLU sued claiming the orders were unconstitutional.
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As demonstrations against police brutality and racism rip across the nation, San Francisco city leaders are responding to calls for police reform with a proposal that could ban hiring officers with histories of misconduct.
Read moreSan Francisco Mayor London Breed announced Thursday a time frame for a staggered reopening of the city, but the proposal requires approval from state officials and hinges on the city’s ability to meet certain health criteria in coming weeks.
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Residents of San Francisco’s famed Haight Ashbury neighborhood say a homeless camp sanctioned by the city is a threat to public safety — especially in the middle of a pandemic.
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed cannot be sued for allegedly pressuring advertising firms to pull a political rival’s billboards that were denounced as racist by the mayor and several other elected officials, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
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A pandemic and public health emergency lockdown has turned citizens — and at least one journalist — into bread makers. And connoisseurs of ancient sourdough starters.
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