In a class action filed Thursday in California Superior Court, current and former residents of the decommissioned nuclear training site on San Francisco’s Treasure Island claim they were deceived for years about radioactive contamination near their homes.
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Castigating a ban on fur sales as a ridiculous bit of San Francisco sanctimony, a major international fur trade group sued the city and its public health department on Monday to overturn the law.
Read moreThe trial of an immigrant cleared of murder in a 2015 shooting on a San Francisco pier and now faces federal gun possession charges will be delayed pending a psychiatrist’s evaluation of his fitness to stand trial, a federal judge said Friday.
Read moreTouting the indictment of two gang members following a joint investigation by local police and feds, the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California on Thursday blasted San Francisco policies that limit cooperation with federal agents.
Read moreA federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether an immigrant acquitted of murder but facing federal gun-possession charges is competent to stand trial, one week before the trial is slated to begin.
Read moreThe U.S. government cannot be held liable for a federal ranger’s stolen gun used to fatally shoot a young woman on a San Francisco pier in 2015, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreThe city of San Francisco has agreed to pay $225,000 to settle claims that its police officers racially targeted 37 black people with arrests for selling “small amounts of drugs.”
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A new café culture is brewing in the San Francisco area, where a growing number of coffeehouses are banishing paper to-go cups and replacing them with everything from glass jars to rental mugs and BYO cup policies.
Read moreSan Francisco Mayor London Breed touted a 200-bed Navigation Center on the city’s waterfront as a victory in the city’s unremitting battle against homelessness, while inveighing against decades of regulations that have stymied new housing construction both in San Francisco and the rest of the state.
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Tired of San Francisco streets being used as a testing ground for the latest delivery technology and transportation apps, city leaders are requiring businesses to get permits before trying out new high-tech ideas in public.
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Taking the first step in tackling one of San Francisco’s most intractable problems, city leaders on Tuesday advanced a bold plan to reform the city’s mental health care system and give homeless residents 24-7 access to care, but more funding is still needed for the program.
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A state judge has rejected a neighborhood group’s attempt to stop construction of a 200-bed homeless shelter in San Francisco.
Read moreSan Francisco will ask voters to approve an innovative approach to a rash of empty storefronts in the city’s shopping districts: Tax the landlords.
Read moreA federal judge on Monday weighed whether the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office unconstitutionally deprives inmates of sunlight and outdoor exercise at two county jails.
Read moreA neighborhood group asked a state judge on Thursday to halt the ongoing construction of a 200-bed shelter in San Francisco, arguing the city failed to get required approval from a state commission that oversees public lands.
Read moreVictims of the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting this past summer sued event organizers Tuesday, claiming inadequate security allowed the mass shooting to occur.
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San Francisco’s new district attorney is the latest in a string of big-city chief prosecutors to win the office by promising sweeping reforms and a shift away from the traditional law and order punitive approach to criminal justice issues.
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The National Rifle Association dropped its lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s decision to label it a terrorist group Thursday, a move both sides touted as a legal victory.
Read moreThe Tax the Rich Conference was put on by a group calling itself the Patriotic Millionaires, comprised of individuals who earn more than $1 million per year or have accumulated at least $5 million. But unlike a healthy segment of high-income earners and wealthy individuals, they weren’t fighting to keep as much money as possible, but organizing to get the government to take more of it.
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