SF Buys Six Buildings, Keeping Artists and Others in Place
Two longtime residents and artists as well as tenants in 18 other units will be able to stay in rent-controlled apartments thanks to two non-profits buying six buildings from...
Rigoberto Hernandez
Rigoberto Hernandez is a journalism student at San Francisco State University. He has interned at The Oregonian and The Orange County Register, but prefers to report on the Mission District. In his spare time he can be found riding his bike around the city, going to Giants games and admiring the Stable building.
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Stories by Rigoberto
SF Market Rate Housing Project Goes Fully Affordable
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
A former gas station on the corner of 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue that was slated for market rate condos will now be affordable...
SF Improvement Tax Expires on Mission St. Block
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Picking up trash is an apolitical action says permit expediter and power broker, Phillip Lesser. Or, so he thought until Tuesday, when District Supervisor David...
Billboard Near Planned Parenthood Promises to Reverse Abortions
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
A billboard on Mission and Valencia streets features a picture of a woman next to a baby and message that says in capital letters, “Abortion...
Policía Dispara a Señor y Fallece por Lesiones
By Hadley Robinson, Lydia Chavez, Daniel Mondragón and Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Ayer, en el estacionamiento de la estación de policía del Distrito de la Misión en la calle Valencia un agresor sacó una pistola y la...
Man Shot by Police Dies From His Injuries
By Hadley Robinson, Lydia Chavez, Daniel Mondragón and Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
An assailant in parking lot of the Mission District Police Station on Valencia pulled out what Police Chief Greg Suhr later described as a BB...
EMT Worker Gunned Down Tried to Stop a Fight
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Camilo Senchyna-Beltran, 26, took a break from a busy life as an EMT when he went out to celebrate a friend’s birthday Saturday night at...
More than A Dozen Protesters Arrested After Blocking Market Street
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
More than a dozen protesters were arrested on Market Street after staging a “die-in” on Market Street –the second one in as many days–to denounce...
Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Praised But Leaves Many Out
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Adriana Guzman, 36, was in disbelief after hearing President Barack Obama’s immigration announcement on Thursday. Under Obama’s plan she will be eligible to stay in...
500 March to Support 43 Missing Mexican Students
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Some 500 protesters marched from the Mission District to downtown San Francisco to show solidarity with the parents of 43 students and six others who...
Listen Local: Crime and Bars
By Laura Wenus, Daniel Hirsch and Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
This week on Listen Local, we talked about crime we’ve been reporting on — which has varied from shootings that had a local resident dodging...
SF Green Cab Business On the Edge of Collapse
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Mission-based Green Cab’s 16 cabs are currently idle because they cannot find an SFMTA-approved insurance company willing to write them a policy and if they don’t...
Alleged Tech Drug Lord, Nice, a Bible Reader
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
Blake Benthall had just pulled his gray Tesla out of the driveway next door to his rented house on Florida Street Wednesday afternoon when some...
2 Shootings, 6 Injured, Resident Escapes Stray Bullets
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
In a span of less than 30 minutes five men sustained gunshots injuries in two separate shootings according to police and residents. Police are investigating...
Chiu Leads Assembly Vote, Campos Declines to Concede
By Rigoberto Hernandez Posted
The outcome of the so-called “battle for San Francisco’s soul” is going to have to wait a few more days as Supervisor David Campos declined...