Changes to state and local laws have made housing projects easier to move from conception to construction, bypassing the commission entirely.

Thomas Paine Square Apartments captured on April 30, 2025. Photo by Xueer Lu. District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood announced Tuesday that the Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing this fall ...

Since the late 1860s, Taishanese (also known as Toisanese or Hoisanwa) has been one of the most common languages spoken in San Francisco. But since then, virtually the only way to learn Taishanese in ...

Tuesday to place a measure on the November ballot that would be a step towards creating the first city-run public bank in the country. A public bank would let the city issue low-cost loans to ...

Mission Local reporters are fanning out across San Francisco all weekend. Follow along here for live dispatches.

Giuliana Milanese buttonholes passersby as she trudges up Cortland Avenue. “Are you a San Francisco voter?” she asks, proffering an orange Bernal Heights Democratic Club slate card of candidates from ...

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday postponed voting on a 362-page ordinance that would have made well over a hundred ...

Once again, random angry boors have been used to portray San Francisco as a hotbed of organized, political antisemitism ...

Volunteers gathered 15,626 signatures for a measure that would reopen the Great Highway on weekdays and leave the park open ...

A slate of new businesses received grants to open up shop in the Tenderloin, some expanding from other parts of the city.

It’d be impossible for San Francisco’s beloved Major League franchise to wholly squander its political goodwill. It seems to be hell-bent on trying.

After a Friday that swung from glitter to handcuffs, Pride weekend rolls on — the Celebration, the Dyke March and the road to ...