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If you can’t beat them, join them. San Francisco’s Dolores Park has recently installed an open-air, public urinal in the latest attempt to curb its destructive public urination problem. “The more options we can give them to relieve themselves, the

An illegal migrant who was detained and now marked for deportation by federal immigration officials in San Francisco is charging that police broke the law by detaining him in violation of the city’s “sanctuary city laws.”

San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener is facing the wrath of homeless advocates after suggesting last week that people living on the streets in tents should be moved into shelters.

San Francisco’s former sanctuary city sheriff has been replaced, and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy is already moving to re-establish communications between federal immigration officials and deputies at the city jail.

San Francisco’s gentrification is slowly creeping into the Bay Area’s traditionally black neighborhoods, forcing out locals and slowly replacing them with Silicon Valley techies and professionals who are better able to afford higher prices.

The City of San Francisco is demanding that Justin Bieber’s music label put an end to a graffiti marketing campaign that is defacing their city, annoying residents, and costing taxpayers money.

On Friday, hundreds of high school and middle school students walked out of class in San Francisco to protest the death of Mario Woods, who was shot Dec. 2 in a fatal confrontation with San Francisco police.

On Monday, Air France Flight 83, bound from San Francisco to Paris, was diverted to Montreal, but the reason for the unscheduled stop has not been made public.

San Francisco could soon be home to the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the county, if not the world.

San Francisco’s needle exchange program, which began in 1988 in an attempt to prevent, reduce and eventually thwart the spread of HIV among users, has spiraled out of control and into a public health disaster for inhabitants of the burgeoning city.

In the world of hyper-competitive business and San Francisco’s experimental culture a trend has emerged – microdosing psychedelic drugs to improve performance.

An unidentified bike messenger is being lauded as a hero after he helped deliver a baby under a San Francisco bus shelter to a homeless woman who did not even know she was pregnant.

A man in his 20s decided to strip naked on Tuesday afternoon and hang from an Interstate 80 sign near the Fifth Street on-ramp in San Francisco.

Mayors from five California cities on Friday signed a letter urging Congress not to reject vetted refugees, including those from Syria, that seek to come to the United States.

San Francisco is a living crystal ball of what happens when a city refuses to build enough housing to accommodate the dense clustering of high-tech and service workers natural to modern industries.

San Francisco and other cities throughout the world joined in solidarity with Paris by holding candlelight vigils in front of the French Consulate on Friday and Saturday nights to mourn the loss of life at the hands of radical Islamic terrorists in the aftermath of France’s most brutal attack in recent history.

Four people were still in critical condition on Saturday after a Friday crash in which a double-decker bus smashed into construction in San Francisco’s Union Square.

At least four people suffered critical injuries after an open aired double-decker tour bus lost control in traffic near Union Square on Friday afternoon, striking several vehicles and knocking over nearby construction scaffolding, witnesses said.

Although the game will play at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Super Bowl 50 will celebrate the festivities surrounding the event in San Francisco.

Parents of high-ability students are demanding their San Francisco school board restore their courses for high achievers, which have been set aside while schools in the district switched over to the Common Core standards.

On Thursday, only a day after an allegedly drunk teacher and former debutante smashed into two 12-year-olds walking to school, sending them to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, the city of San Francisco finally decided to make the area safer for pedestrians.

The Left got clobbered from coast to coast on Tuesday night. It’s tough to find anything they could spin as a victory.

It’s Election Day, and Californians are deciding on a host of local offices and ballot measures. In San Francisco, voters will decide the fate of Airbnb and “sanctuary city” Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott was interviewed by Sean Hannity and the nationally syndicated radio talk show host told Abbott – “Good job in Texas, I’ll tell you that!” Hannity commended Abbott for his tough stance on sanctuary cities, his lawsuit against the Obama administration’s amnesty program, and putting a halt to Obama’s amnesty during his tenure as President. The talk show host also asked the Texas Governor who he was supporting as President.

A dilapidated, 765-square-foot earthquake shack in San Francisco sold for $408,000 this week–a deal that is seen as a bargain considering the difficulty of finding a home under half a million dollars in the city’s surging real estate market.

San Francisco’s infamous ‘sanctuary city’ sheriff, Ross Mirkarimi is coming under fire for the transfer of an inquisitive shooting range sergeant and for failing a subsequent firearms test.

A San Francisco police sergeant fatally shot a man shortly after noon on Thursday in downtown San Francisco after the suspect got on top of another sergeant, started beating him up, and grabbed his gun. “He’s got my gun! Shoot him!” the

A $50,000 driveway for sale in San Francisco’s Light District is highlighting the exorbitant heights of the city’s real estate market.

Californians are divided over whether they want incumbent Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to seek a fifth term in 2018 after her current term ends, according to a new Field Poll.

A local Bay Area rapper who goes by the name Equipto confronted San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on Wednesday night and called him a “disgrace to Asians,” blaming him for spurring the housing crisis that has displaced thousands in the city.

San Francisco’s 911 call center has been burdened with a “painful” problem. A surge in butt dials over the past three years (28% increase between 2011 and 2014) has been cutting into valuable time for operators who are forced to work longer hours as they seek to determine whether each butt, or pocket, dial is a true emergency.

San Francisco is enjoying the benefits of a new tech boom, but black residents are left behind–or leaving.
That’s the story told by new data on incomes, which show that white, Asian and Latino residents saw increases in 2014, but blacks saw their incomes fall by nearly 5 percent,

Africanized honeybees, otherwise known as killer bees, have made their way to the Bay Area for the first time.

In San Francisco, where the black population has plunged from roughly 15% of the population in 1970 to less than 6% today, one bar features a series of black comedians playing before a mostly-white audience, reports Bay Area public radio station KQED.

Last weekend, a “Stomp Trump” rally took place in San Francisco’s Mission District where a large group of left-wing and Latino residents encouraged their children to take violent swings at a Donald Trump piñata as the crowd cheered on.

Officials in Santa Clara, California consider a ban on selling alcohol after halftime at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium after a violent beating of a visiting fan, reports say.