City Hall
City Hall: Connie Chan
Budget Prioritizes City’s Vulnerable
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Politics
Live Updates: Democrats consider new congressional maps amid Texas redistricting
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Assembly: Catherine Stefani
Not So Fast, Elon
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Texas Democrats prevent vote, for now, on Trump-backed congressional map
Texas Democrats on Monday prevented their state’s House of Representatives from moving forward, at least for now, with a redrawn congressional map sought by President Donald Trump to shore up Republicans’ 2026 midterm prospects as his political standing falters.
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The curious case of Engardio's deleted Great Highway meeting
Supervisor Joel Engardio and his consultants are calling some of his critics crazy conspiracy theorists. They have sent reporters memes of tinfoil hats. It’s how they are dismissing a really bizarre situation:
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Human Rights
Day Around the Bay: Parents of Missing Fremont Teen Seek Private Investigator
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Immigration
DACA recipients set to lose Affordable Care Act coverage
DACA recipients, people who were brought to the United States undocumented by their parents, are about to lose a critical safety net.
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‘She’s My Home’: An SF Couple’s Life Unraveled After an ICE Check-In
He hadn’t moved anything in the house. Their bed was still unmade — it had been like that for days, he said, since the last night they slept in it. Her shoes, tossed near the front door. On the small dining table were further scattered bits of her presence: the leaves of her morning mate, a stack of her unopened letters.
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Arts and Events
Hey, Standard Members — we’ve got your VIP invite to Stern Grove’s Big Picnic Weekend
It’s your last chance to experience the magic of Stern Grove this summer!
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Win a pair of tickets to Diana Ross at Stern Grove Festival
If there “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” to keep you from seeing Diana Ross, then we’ve got good news.
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Mary Louise Kelly: NPR host, war reporter, mother … spy novelist?
Mary Louise Kelly was thousands of feet in the air, decked out in bulletproof body armor, and crying.
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New Mural Transforms Huge Alemany Boulevard Wall
After two years of permit delays and a recent bout of bad weather, the 200-foot retaining wall and staircase at Alemany Boulevard and Head Street is getting a face-lift.
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Free, two-day SF festival highlights Filipino culture
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Local Maker Credits the City for Inspiring ‘Cozy Cubs Puzzle Club’
By Phebe Bridges
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Sea Serpent Sculpture Finds its Way from Burning Man to GG Park
By Neal Wong
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A long, strange trip from counterculture to $6,000 tickets and fancy hotels
The San Francisco fog, a familiar friend to many Grateful Dead shows, rolled in with an unspoken acknowledgment of this special occasion. Inside the park, a blanket of people covered the Polo fields for the band’s 60th anniversary.
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SF’s Instagram-Famous Dog Brixton Is Battling Cancer, Faces Mounting Medical Bills
Perhaps San Francisco’s most recognized dog on the social scene, a party-hopping 11-year-old golden retriever named Brixton, has been diagnosed with lymphoma, and is looking at a very costly fight for recovery.
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Castro looks to broaden Halloween fun with night market
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MC Hammer Sued by Bank That Claims He’s $76,000 Behind on His Car Payments
Oakland-born rapper MC Hammer may have a problem that’s “2 legit” for even him to quit, as Chase Bank has sued him for failing to make payments on a $115,000 Land Rover that he bought in 2023.
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Criminal Justice
Mother of toddler who died from fentanyl exposure charged with murder
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Grieving families file civil lawsuit after San Jose day care drownings
Nearly two years after a tragic drowning incident at a San Jose home day care claimed the lives of two toddlers, the grieving families say they are still waiting for justice.
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New East Bay diversion center aims for care over incarceration
There's a new push in Alameda County to focus on treatment rather than incarceration for people who run into legal issues because they’re struggling with their mental health.
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San Mateo County DA Will Fight Parole for Man Convicted in 1989 Mountain View Cold Case
Prosecutors and family members of Kathleen Noble said Monday that they will fight parole suitability for the man convicted of her 1989 murder.
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Education
City College hurts students by not offering enough classes—again
City College of San Francisco recently received some good news. Soon after a new permanent chancellor was hired, the Accrediting Commission for Junior and Community Colleges reaffirmed the college’s accreditation after sanctioning its Board of trustees a year and a half ago on the basis of the accreditor’s questionable and inconsistent visiting team’s report.
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Health
‘Deeply disappointed': DACA recipients will soon lose health insurance
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Public Safety
San Francisco speed cameras begin issuing tickets, fines
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Drug users still plague SF's streets. This ex-con may have the answer
Douglas Liu can sell anything. He learned that while on the run from the U.S. government, peddling timeshares to tourists in Mexico.
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Firefighter hurt in Santa Rosa house fire
A firefighter was hurt after responding to a house fire in Santa Rosa Monday.
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Police shooting leaves person dead in Richmond
A police shooting left a person dead in Richmond Monday.
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Missing Fremont teen's family asking community for help in locating her
Flyers asking the public to keep a watch out for 16-year-old Katie Hong can be seen all over Fremont.
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Lights installed at San Jose pedestrian bridge known for gang activity
East San Jose residents are celebrating after a popular pedestrian bridge now has lights installed.
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Another Pair of Bay Area Parents Arrested In Fentanyl Death of Toddler
A Napa mother has been charged with murder and a father has been charged with child endangerment in connection with the August 2024 death of their three-year-old son.
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Sports
Why the 49ers made a flurry of roster moves (and where key groups stand now)
The 49ers cut Greg Joseph on Monday, but does that mean Jake Moody has won the team’s much-discussed kicking competition?
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Miscellaneous
See baby hippo refuse to get out of pool until he gets ‘mom stare'
There appears to be something universal about the “mom stare.”
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This conversation is being recorded — and so is everything else you do in San Francisco
Warning, San Francisco: That cute necklace your coworker is wearing might be recording you.
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Rainbow Grocery prepares to celebrate 50 years as San Francisco’s iconic worker-owned store
Yesenia Ochoa grew up just five blocks away from Rainbow Grocery. She remembers it as “the weird store” of her childhood — the place where her family could always find flor de jamaica and other hard-to-source ingredients.
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Muir Woods Reservations All Sold Out? Visit These 5 Bay Area Redwood Forests Instead
It’s a damp, foggy Saturday morning in the Bay Area, and you’ve got a hankering to immerse yourself in the redwoods at Muir Woods National Monument.
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Santa Clara dog park closed after several dogs become reportedly ill
Santa Clara County said that over the last two months, it has received multiple reports of dogs becoming ill after visiting Nuevo Dog Park.
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Cockroaches found on Air India flight from San Francisco
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A Texas investor is pumping cash into SF’s retail market. This is his biggest bet yet
Dallas-based investor Douglas MacMahon, who has spent tens of millions of dollars on San Francisco real estate since the pandemic market crash, has purchased another property in Union Square.
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