San Francisco Chronicle
June 16, 2026
With the Vaillancourt Fountain now fully removed from Embarcadero Plaza, San Francisco officials are moving forward this week with an ambitious $40 million plan to transform the site into a 5-acre destination park that will replace the brick patio once known [...]
NBC Bay Area
June 13, 2026
Thousands of people came out in San Francisco for the 80th annual Juneteenth Freedom Celebration in the Fillmore District. Juneteenth celebrations started early in San Francisco; there were three stages, good, vendors and more, spanning eight blocks. “I decided to come [...]
Local News Matters
June 12, 2026
Tucked away in a cul-de-sac on San Francisco’s Treasure Island is a new transitional housing facility for women who are victims of violent crimes. On Thursday, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins stood outside the building announcing the official launch of the [...]
NBC Bay Area
May 21, 2026
Wednesday evening, San Francisco leaders and community members gathered in the South of Market neighborhood to celebrate what they say is a step in the right direction in curbing overdoses and addiction. Alyssa Goard reports. Wednesday evening, San Francisco leaders [...]
San Francisco Chronicle
May 19, 2026
San Francisco would more than double its annual contribution to an affordable housing trust fund under a charter amendment proposed by Supervisor Myrna Melgar with the support of Mayor Daniel Lurie. The charter amendment, slated for the November ballot, would [...]
NBC Bay Area
May 7, 2026
San Francisco is expected to welcome more visitors this summer compared to last, with tourism spending on track to rise as well. Christie Smith reports. San Francisco is expected to welcome more visitors this summer compared to last, with tourism [...]
NBC Bay Area
May 4, 2026
San Francisco's experiment with a new approach to public drug use and addiction starts Monday as the RESET (Rapid Enforcement Support Evaluation and Triage) Center opens on 6th Street in the city's South of Market (SoMa) neighborhood. [...]
CBS News
April 30, 2026
San Francisco is expanding availability of free and low-cost childcare for the city's working families, by adding hundreds of spots for infants and toddlers. Mayor Daniel Lurie's office announced Thursday that nearly 750 early learning spots will become available this [...]
KQED
March 6, 2026
San Francisco’s infamously slow building permitting process may be getting faster. A city study published Thursday found that between January 2024 and August 2025, the timeline on permit approvals for new housing in San Francisco was cut by half — [...]
ABC 7 News
March 4, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco is releasing new data that it says shows major progress in the effort to fix the city's homelessness crisis. The new quarterly numbers released by the mayor's office show that tent and encampment numbers [...]
San Francisco Chronicle
February 24, 2026
Free live music will return to Golden Gate Park this weekend, when the sixth season of Illuminate Live kicks off at the Bandshell, San Francisco officials announced. The opening show is set to take place Sunday, March 1, as part of [...]
Wall Street Journal
January 13, 2026
Vanderbilt University plans to open a new campus near downtown San Francisco, an expansion for the prestigious research school and a boost to the city’s turnaround efforts. Vanderbilt is acquiring the facilities and other assets of the California College of [...]
KQED
October 29, 2025
About 112,000 San Francisco residents who are expected to lose their November food stamp benefits due to a suspension by the federal government will get some relief through an $18 million public-private partnership [...]
Kron4 San Francisco
October 24, 2025
In the midst of what’s become a national conversation about crime and public safety in San Francisco, a report has surfaced naming the city as one of the safest in the world for travelers. In the report from Berkshire Hathaway Travel [...]
San Francisco Examiner
October 14, 2025
San Francisco recorded its smallest monthly number of drug-overdose deaths of 2025 in September — and the second-smallest number in any month since at least 2020 — according to a preliminary report published Tuesday by The City’s medical examiner. [...]
NBC Bay Area
September 24, 2025
“A much-anticipated project for affordable senior housing in San Francisco’s Chinatown has received a major financial boost … The project is set to bring up to 175 units of affordable housing to the neighborhood.”“This will be the first new housing, [...]
New York Times
September 14, 2025
They were cheering for the Golden State Valkyries, the W.N.B.A.’s first expansion team in 17 years. But they also seemed to be cheering for something more: the surge of excitement in San Francisco over women’s sports and the return of [...]
Wind Newspaper
September 7, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — As part of Interim Police Chief Paul Yep’s reorganization of the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to enhance public safety, a pilot program has been launched to add one more Lieutenant position to busy police stations for better [...]
AXIOS San Francisco
September 2, 2025
The initiative speeds up approvals for new housing construction, business openings, live music and entertainment and more by removing strict rules, consolidating the application process and moving more of it online. [...]
ABC 7 News
August 14, 2025
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco’s Chinatown was the center of much of the anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, when many residents didn’t feel safe walking down the street. On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Interim Police Chief Paul Yep walked the streets [...]
CBS News
July 29, 2025
The law provides for interim or permanent housing to individuals and families sheltering in vehicles, with $13 million over two fiscal years earmarked for rapid rehousing, a vehicle buyback program, outreach, and enforcement. [...]