For the over seven million Californians who once lived inside the state’s massive prison system, securing many of life’s basic necessities can be a challenge….
If you were one of the myriad San Franciscans attempting to sneak out of the city a few hours early last Friday afternoon, you may…
It might be a good idea to mark Tuesday, August 2nd as your own personal Bike to Work Day. That’s the day labor groups have…
Following a six-month investigation into illegal business practices by the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, the long-time Mission fixture Carlos Club (also known as…
The folks known for telling you to “Spare the air” and avoid driving might not be taking their own advice. The Bay Area Air Quality…
After a furor of online activity and discussion, the much anticipated Bay Area trial of a service attempting to bring Netflix’s all-you-can-watch model to the…
Just a few blocks from the Civic Center SF Pride celebration, the festive atmosphere of Market Street Pink Saturday night was punctured with the sound…
After months of delay, tomorrow SF’s Board of Supervisors may finally make a decision on whether to allow AT&T’s controversial plan to place 726 utility…
Earlier this week, the Golden Gate Bridge District approved a $4 million engineering study looking into the creation of a full-fledged suicide prevention barrier. The…
On November 20th, 2008, David Wheeler was biking along the Great Highway. He was riding through a crosswalk from the adjacent bike path when a…
A report by the city’s Ethics Commission says it expects each of the nine major mayoral candidates to qualify for, and opt into, San Francisco’s…
Joining many of San Francisco’s other large-scale public events, Pink Saturday has, for the first time in its history, gone dry. This year, the annual…
At a meeting tomorrow, SFMTA’s governing board is expected to strap on Nat Ford’s golden parachute and allow him to walk away from his position…
Looking Into Yesterday’s Epic Muni Fail Yesterday morning, a damaged electrical harness on an inbound N-Judah caused the train to pull down 500 feet wiring…
Update 6/17: A video has emerged showing a portion of the incident. What started as a dispute over an airline passenger’s fashion sense, ended with…
In March, Mayor Ed Lee held a ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of Charlie Starbuck, a San Francisco citizen who has single-handedly planted over 7,000 trees…
Nearly a decade after its sudden closure, the old Real Foods storefront in Noe Valley remains vacant, Noe Valley SF reminds us today. Located on…
When Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison was selling San Francisco on the benefits of hosting the 2013 America’s Cup, the city was assured that the internationally…
Sometime in 2010, it became abundantly clear that Zendesk had outgrown it’s office space. The tech firm, which specializes in cloud-based help desk software, was…
In a vote that sent shockwaves though San Francisco, the membership of the Transit Workers Union (Local 250-A) has resoundingly rejected the terms of a…
Ed Meng just wanted to go home. It was late last Sunday night and Meng needed to get out of Potero Hill and back to…
Riding a bike in San Francisco is difficult enough without cars deliberately running you over. When a driver decides to to make it his business…
Elsewhere: SFMTA Reaches Tentative Labor Agreement with Muni Operators Union [Streetsblog], Muni reaches tentative contract with drivers [Chron], Muni management, operators union reach tentative agreement…
Only weeks after a judge dismissed a class action lawsuit by a group of small business owners against Yelp, that very same group has filed…
Whoever ends up filling Jim Hammer’s seat on the Police Commission is going to have their work cut out for them. Just this past month,…
A few years ago I was at the Union Street Fair and, exhausted from watching shirtless bros with frosted tips elbow their ways though the…
In a city where dogs easily outnumber children, one might think that any new place to procure pooch-sized strollers, tiny argyle sweater vests and the…
After Judge Loretta Giorgi admonished Recreation and Parks Department staffers for suggesting a company they favored to win the contract to operate the historic Stow…
Despite full approval from the Board of Supervisors and pressure from the world’s largest concert promoter, a judge has put Live Nation’s plans to turn…
In a major blow to the ego of the Mountain View-based tech giant in the city’s backyard, San Francisco has chosen Microsoft’s Exchange Online system…
In the newest development in an ever-expanding controversy in the world of San Francisco politics, a judge has ruled in favor of Ortega Family Enterprises…
The N-Judah is one of the busiest transit lines in San Francisco. The light rail shuttles some 38,000 passengers between Ocean Beach and the Financial…
Monday afternoon saw the the last in a series of town halls held by SFMTA to hammer out the final version of a plan to…
After two weeks of watching the Braves from the comfort of his living room, pitching coach Roger McDowell has returned to his position with the…
On her blog, A Streetcar Called Taraval, Katie Haverkamp recounts stumbling upon the scene of a grizzly grisly accident during her Wednesday evening commute. “Today…
At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors Government Audit and Oversight Committee yesterday, board members assailed SFMTA brass after it was reported that the…
After serving less than half of his two year manslaughter sentence for the 2009 death of Oscar Grant, former BART police officer Johannes Mehserle is…
A scandal that began after questions were raised over a handful of conversations with Recreation and Parks Department staffers has grown into a swirling gyre…
Nat Ford’s Personal Bailout Nobody likes SFMTA chief Nat Ford. The CEO of SF’s transit agency didn’t make a lot of friends around town when…