Family homelessness may be underrepresented in city’s count
San Francisco’s bi-annual Homeless Point-In-Time Count and Survey vastly underrepresents the scope of family homelessness in the city, according to data gathered by Compass SF, an organization dedicated to providing...
Electric, station-less bike share program starts to roll out
Bikeshare is getting big. And the newest player – Social Bicycles – is bringing their electric JUMP bikes to the mix. They have already started appearing around the city. Already...
Two men critically injured, 14-year-old robbed and more
Two men are in life-threatening condition after stabbings in the Mission District, police report. In one incident on Sunday afternoon, officers were called to 16th and Capp streets and found...
Construction delays opening of new SF Mission Navigation Center
The temporary, low-barrier Navigation Center for the homeless scheduled to open its doors Monday at 1515 South Van Ness Ave. was still under construction today and it is unclear when...
Early morning fire displaces four from Mission District SRO
Firefighters responded to a one-alarm fire at 5:22 a.m. Monday morning inside a low-income SRO hotel on Mission Street between 16th and 17th streets. No injuries were reported, but four...
Violence erupts at Dolores Park, twerking reveler changes the mood
A witness wrote to Mission Local describing a Sunday night party in Dolores Park that “was a lot messier” than we described in our earlier story. She said the police...
Rumors of citizenship troubles keep immigrants from getting legal benefits
Immigrants who can’t afford to feed their families are facing hunger rather than accepting benefits that rumors tell them could put their hopes of becoming citizens in jeopardy, according to...
Dolores Park Style: let your freak fly
We may be casual at times, but San Franciscans will go all out (pun intended) when it’s time to celebrate. Pride is full permission to let your freak flag fly,...
Dolores Park assault, party and a field of bottles, cans...
Pride weekend ended at Dolores Park Sunday night with no life threatening injuries, but two incidents – an assault with a bottle and a party that triggered the arrival of...
Photo essay: Keeping it random
Snap: Raising money for the Alex Nieto memorial
Musicians and poets raised money Saturday evening for an Alex Nieto memorial. The performance venues were Adobe Books, Sun Rise Restaurant, and the sidewalk in front of La Reyna Bakery...
Developments in Development: Elbo Room, Rolling Stock, Everlane
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning and construction news. I don’t have much of a play-by-play housing-bubble update this week except that messages...
At Dolores Park, dykes talk dating apps, jenga and more
All afternoon, at the 25th annual Dyke March celebration in Dolores Park, women approached Robyn Exton to thank her for helping them meet. Exton is the founder of HER, a...
UPS shooter used stolen assault pistol to target co-workers (SF...
From SF Gate: A United Parcel Service worker who killed three of his fellow delivery drivers and then himself in San Francisco last week wielded a MAC-10-style “assault pistol” with...
No matter the party in Dolores Park, trans people talk...
The colors and music of the Trans March celebration in Dolores Park on Friday where a large crowd partied through the day hardly masked a different reality. Discrimination continues, trans...
Photo essay: Another sunny day in the Mission
We’ve had more sunny days lately than rain so I figured I best get out and about.
San Francisco opens first new park in a decade
After more than a decade of meetings, debates and most recently rain delays, the Mission has a new park at 17th and Folsom streets – In Chan Kaajal Park, a...