San Francisco school officials failed to study environmental consequences when they ordered the covering of controversial George Washington murals, according to a complaint filed in state court from a California high school alumni association.
Read moreDefending her decision to appoint her favored candidate as district attorney weeks before a hotly disputed election, San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Friday the office is too important to leave vacant.
Read moreSpeculation as to whether Los Angeles District Attorney Jackie Lacey will have a challenger when she seeks re-election grew on Thursday after San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón announced he would resign, according to media reports.
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Continuing its fixation with the Golden State, the Trump administration has accused San Francisco of soiling city streets and beaches with raw sewage and a bevy of other Clean Water Act violations.
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Amid a leadership shakeup and pressure from federal, state and local lawmakers, e-cigarette maker Juul has pulled funding from a ballot initiative aimed at overturning San Francisco’s vaping ban.
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To help meet its goal of going carbon neutral by 2050, San Francisco on Tuesday became the first U.S. city to make large commercial buildings get 100% of their power from renewable energy sources.
Read moreA lawyer for two landlords struggled to explain to a Ninth Circuit panel Friday why his clients did not apply for an exemption from a rule forcing them to offer a lifetime lease to their tenant before they sued the city of San Francisco.
Read moreLegal experts predict the National Rifle Association won’t get far in its lawsuit challenging San Francisco’s decision to brand it a terrorist group, but that could change if the city takes action against contractors that work with the NRA, according to one First Amendment scholar.
Read moreVaping giant Juul and its allies won a partial victory Friday against the city of San Francisco in a lawsuit challenging the wording of a ballot question that could replace the city’s e-cigarette ban with a lighter set of regulations.
Read moreThe city of San Francisco ended its stalemate Friday with pretrial detainees fighting the money bail system in the city.
Read moreA California state appeals court on Friday threw out the sole conviction against an immigrant who fatally shot a young woman on the San Francisco waterfront in 2015 in a case that sparked a national immigration debate.
Read moreLamenting a “stark choice” of keeping a former Peruvian president in solitary confinement or releasing him from jail, a federal judge in San Francisco asked federal prosecutors Thursday to look for alternatives.
Read moreVaping giant Juul and its allies sued the city of San Francisco Friday over its “false” and “misleading” descriptions of a ballot measure that could replace the city’s e-cigarette ban with a lighter set of regulations.
Read moreIt’s been five months since U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declared San Francisco’s bail schedule unconstitutional. But with talks on a replacement plan between the sheriff and attorneys representing pretrial detainees grinding to a halt, she’s fed up and willing to let political pressure force the local court and law enforcement to act.
Read moreA California judge on Friday quashed a fifth and final warrant that authorized police to search a journalist’s home, office and phone records, but questions remain as to why the warrants, now deemed illegal, were issued in the first place.
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After weeks of pushback over the decision to remove historic murals, San Francisco school officials voted Tuesday to cover, rather than destroy, a series of 1930s frescoes depicting George Washington, black slaves and dead Native Americans.
Read moreMore court documents unsealed Tuesday indicate a San Francisco judge signed off on a police raid of a freelance journalist’s home despite knowing the man is a member of the press.
Read moreIn a swift response to White House plans to give greater weight to an immigrant’s use of public assistance when deciding whether to approve green card applications, two Bay Area counties called the so-called “public charge rule” unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Vowing to tackle the city’s most vexing problems, including widespread drug addiction and property crimes, four candidates for San Francisco district attorney offered competing visions at a debate Wednesday night.
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