A promised fix to the district’s enrollment system was due this year. It stalled — and families are still paying for it.
The high profile lawsuit from four states, including California, will put Instagram and Facebook’s handling of young users in the spotlight.
Captains of San Francisco’s 500-person hockey league could skate off into the sunset after nearly 30 years at Yerba Buena. The new management is willing to let them.
At Fusion Dumpling, Jenny Wu’s cherished Shanghai food memories meet chef Truman Du’s classic Chongqing roots.
The district ranks in the bottom 4% for funding in the state, the superintendent says.
State regulators visited more than a dozen times over three years. Former teachers say little changed until the money ran out.
Six months after a toddler was fatally hit near a Mission Bay school, a new one there is among the first to get upgrades.
Test scores, closures, screen time, and a record-breaking board race: The biggest fights are just starting.
The statistics are devastating: SFPD solved just 14% of rape cases in 2025, half the national average, and the lowest of any large California county.
The board will demand answers from the SFPD on the city’s handling of sexual assault cases.
SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved.
Fewer investigators, more reliance on victims, and a stalled pipeline to prosecutors.
Plus: Rep. Ro Khanna helps a congressional candidate, Nancy Tung’s brother enters the school board race, and a committee forms to squash an affordable housing measure.
From Stars to Sam’s to Cotogna: A short history of the political restaurant scene.
Plus: Garry Tan hosts Xavier Becerra, Bilal Mahmood goes to the mat for YIMBY, and new City College board candidates emerge.
The 11-member legislative board is having its first major rift of the mayor’s term.
Thirteen years ago, their protests against SF’s tech buses made headlines. Now they warn that the AI boom is making things even worse.
You’ve heard of Dario and Daniela Amodei — but who are the other six founders about to hit the IPO jackpot? Meet the execs poised to become the Bay’s new power brokers.
Andon Market’s AI manager “Luna” fired its first employee in the “high-tech meets slow life” boutique.
Rideshare drivers just had the single biggest unionization effort in U.S. history, but robotaxis are weakening their most powerful weapon.
Culture shock and long-distance commutes are bringing former Bay Area residents back, only to find the most brutal housing market in years.
From Stars to Sam’s to Cotogna: A short history of the political restaurant scene.
“Like swinging in the ’70s”: Syringe-toting techies hit up clinics and parties to trade tips and pricks.
A tragic romance drove Nicole Holmes and Aamonte Hadley to rob their way across the Bay Area, before tearing them apart forever.
Staffing cuts, a boarding crisis, and an $809 million surplus. To employees, the question isn’t whether UCSF can fix its emergency department — it’s whether it wants to.
Everyone says families flee SF — especially large ones, with more than two kids. We asked 9 super-sized clans to share their strategies on rent, space, and sanity.
The statistics are devastating: SFPD solved just 14% of rape cases in 2025, half the national average, and the lowest of any large California county.
San Francisco is blanketed in AI ads that make no sense – and most of us have stopped reading them. But others are fighting back.
A joint session with the Chargers gave Brock Purdy and his teammates an opportunity to square off against Trey Lance and Mike McDaniel.
No region has embraced the league quite like the Bay Area, where the Golden State Valkyries play in front of a sellout crowd every game.
After Turner Hill and Trent Harris reached the big leagues in the same week, another undrafted player, Bo Davidson, could arrive in San Francisco soon.
With 10 games left in the regular season, Natalie Nakase’s squad became the third WNBA team to lock up a postseason berth.
Attendees describe near-identical thefts, dead trackers, and pings that converged hundreds of miles south.
With 100 vendors on offer, the choices are overwhelming. We did the marathon eating so you don't have to.
Not since Chappell Roan’s endearingly earnest theater-kid dominance in 2024 has a single artist exerted such power over attendees’ looks.
This year’s festival was largely for teenagers and the over-35 crowd.
Sometimes only the sweet sound of vinyl will do. Try these seven options when you feel the call of the needle dropping.
The lottery aimed to make it easier for people to attend the free concerts, but many came up empty this summer.
The Waggle gets to know Cami Clark, secret spouse of Dario Amodei. Also this week: Bill Gates’ daughter puts the “fraud” in “schadenfreude.”
From a beachside day trip to a three-night glamping adventure, these destinations are vetted and within half a day’s drive of San Francisco.
With affordable prices and a knack for making the familiar feel fresh, Esme is off to a strong start in the Lower Haight.
Alamo Square’s charming Polenta fits hand-in-glove with the city’s dense constellation of niche Italian restaurants.
San Francisco’s newest grocery store is Grocery Outlet, which is opening Thursday on Bay Street with bargain prices and snack brands you can’t find anywhere else.
The state bans pension managers from donating to the officials who oversee their money. Why doesn’t it ban everyone else who profits from public spending?
AB 1383 would let CalPERS and CalSTRS keep lowballing what they ask public employees to pay, leaving taxpayers to cover the gap — again.
AB 339 was supposed to stop agencies from quietly outsourcing government jobs. A year in, it has produced mostly paperwork.
Sweden abolished its century-old wealth tax in 2007 after it punished entrepreneurship and raised little revenue. California risks making the same mistake.
