Mission residents can anticipate seven more months of open trenches and orange vests as city agencies prepare to add one more street to the neighborhood’s growing portfolio of aging roads and sewers getting an overdue...
When Colleen Nguyen left her home in Vietnam 30 years ago, she landed in San Francisco. Fifteen years ago she began a career in cosmetology. “I like beauty because it makes people happy,” she explained....
Law enforcement officials reported that shortly after 2 a.m. on Thursday, police heard gunshots coming from a vehicle in the Mission. Officers located a victim at 19th and Mission streets who had a gunshot wound...
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan paid a visit Wednesday to 826 Valencia, the Mission-based writing nonprofit founded by educators and authors Níneve Calegari and Dave Eggers. “This is [like] coming home,” Duncan told the volunteers, teachers, parents...
When most people think about sewer systems, they’re likely to envision unsightly industrial facilities like pump stations and treatment plants. But in several San Francisco neighborhoods, including the Mission District, public debate is focusing increasingly...
Mission Local sat down recently with District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener to talk about issues affecting San Franciscans and Mission residents. This interview is part of a series of monthly conversations between Mission Local and...
Scott Lie emigrated to the United States from Vietnam 30 years ago. He landed in Dallas, where he worked in the seafood business. A decade later he moved to the Bay Area. Lie worked for...
The smell of a savory home-cooked meal filled the air near Marshall Elementary School on Saturday afternoon as nine women peeked into steaming pots filled with dozens of tamales. The women, mothers of Marshall students,...
