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Nearly half of the stores in downtown San Francisco have shuttered and fled since 2019.  In 2019 alone some 203 storefronts were open in Union Square and now it’s down to 107,

On Friday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that the challenge facing San Francisco isn’t remote work, it’s the struggle to control crime and homelessness, and “we have to do a better job of saying, if

During an interview set to air on Friday’s edition of “The Issue Is,” California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) argued that cities are leaving San Francisco because they’re “struggling to recover from the pandemic” and “struggling with the macroeconomic shifts,” there

The Cinemark Movie Theater chain has announced that it will be shutting down its Downtown San Francisco Centre location this Friday.

The exodus of major retailers from downtown San Francisco continues, as Westfield has stopped making payments on its mortgage for the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall and plans to leave the premises.

A self-driving car reportedly got in the way as first responders tried to get to the scene of a shooting that left nine people wounded in San Francisco on Friday.

A self-driving car operated by Waymo, Google’s autonomous vehicle company, hit and killed a dog in San Francisco in a recent incident. The tech giant claims, “the system correctly identified the dog which ran out from behind a parked vehicle but was not able to avoid contact.”

San Francisco Mayor London Breed said Monday that President Joe Biden is not doing enough to fight the scourge of fentanyl and needs to do more.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone laments that the United States has done a better job overcoming racism than coming to terms with its long history of anti-Catholicism.

City Journal reported on Thursday that surrogates for the Chinese government are allegedly pressuring the city of San Francisco to remove the Tiananmen Square memorial in Portsmouth Square Park, which is due to undergo renovations in the near future.

The City of San Francisco, California, has launched its first-ever video advertising campaign in an effort to lure tourists back after years of widespread reporting of its problems with crime, homelessness, and urban decay.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is pushing back against reports of a retail “collapse” in the city’s downtown, saying that the departure of many high-end stores is the result of “changes to retail” in the economy in general.

Experts are wrestling with the difficult question of what to do with vacant skyscrapers and commercial real estate in downtown San Francisco, with one suggesting empty buildings could be converted to “waterslides.”

San Francisco police officers shot and killed 40-year-old Sergio Barrios following a three hour standoff during which Barrios allegedly snorted cocaine and drank alcohol.

The Old Navy on Market Street near Union Square in downtown San Francisco is closing, joining a retail exodus from the city that is driven by crime, a changing retail market, and the loss of foot traffic in the area.

Banana Republic has left its downtown San Francisco location — the second major closure to hit the headlines this week, as an exodus of large retailers from the once-posh shopping district continues.

Williams-Sonoma, a retailer specializing in kitchen and home furnishings, confirmed Friday that it will leave its downtown San Francisco location next year, becoming the latest big retailer to leave the Union Square area.

Former Twitter employees are suing Elon Musk and his new holding company for Twitter, X. Corp, over allegations including fraud and breach of contract related to claims of unpaid severance. But some of the most interesting revelations from the lawsuit are the exposure of Musk’s attitude towards paying rent for the company’s buildings. Musk reportedly said in one conversation that he would pay rent “over his dead body.” His lawyer later claimed that charging rent in “derelict zombie apocalypse” San Francisco is unreasonable.

The brutal murder of successful tech executive Bob Lee has revealed an underground party scene in San Francisco, characterized by recreational drug use and casual sex and known as “The Lifestyle.”

Comedian Dave Chappelle took a blowtorch to the lawless, Democrat-controlled city of San Francisco during a surprise standup set in the Bay City this past weekend.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” CNN Correspondent Sara Sidner previewed her special on the issues in San Francisco and stated that COVID shutdowns were a factor in the city’s homeless problem getting worse and stated that drug users

Every ten minutes, a downtown San Francisco Target worker will reportedly see a theft. While multiple products, such as deodorant, are under lock and key at the Metreon mall Target and security guards in bright vests wander the store, thieves

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Another major retailer is leaving downtown San Francisco — this time Coco Republic, an Australian furniture store that is leaving the iconic Union Square less than a year after opening a flagship location there.

San Francisco supervisor Dean Preston (Democratic Socialist) announced Tuesday that he is calling for legislation prohibiting security guards from using guns to protect property.

A Waymo autonomous taxi caused chaos navigating a fire scene in San Francisco, exposing the challenges driverless vehicles face in reacting to unusual situations and commands from first responders. Police officers desperately worked to stop the driverless vehicle from running over a hose being used by firefighters to put out a fire. Body camera footage captured one officer explaining, “Got a bit of a pickle. I got an autonomous vehicle, the Waymo, it’s inching slowly and closely to one of the main water lines that the SF Fire just charged. Can’t run it over,” he says. “I don’t trust this AI.”

Twisted Sister lead singer Dee Snider is defiant after being pulled from a main-stage appearance at a San Francisco pride parade, as organizers labeled his position against transitioning minors “transphobic.”

San Francisco families are trying to survive in RVs and trailers after the housing market forced them into the situation.

A dramatic decline in sales tax revenues from pre-pandemic levels is a sign of the ongoing retail collapse in downtown San Francisco, the result of a pandemic exodus, as well as mass looting events and urban decay.

Paula Canny, the defense attorney for Nima Momeni, the suspect in last month’s murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee, blamed the victim for his death, pointing out that the tech executive had drugs in his system at the time and was therefore probably acting like a “drug person.”

Nordstrom will be shuttering its two stores in downtown San Francisco after 35 years due to a change in “the dynamics of the downtown,” the retailer announced Tuesday.

Over 13 months, the recently-shuttered Whole Foods in Democrat-run San Francisco made 568 emergency calls, reports the far-left New York Times.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is taking on the fight against fentanyl on the streets of San Francisco by sending in the California Highway Patrol, as well as the California National Guard, to help local police.

Gap Inc. is eliminating 1,800 corporate jobs, “mainly in San Francisco and New York,” as part of an effort to make the company “more nimble and less bureaucratic,” the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

San Francisco repealed its boycott of conservative states over legislation on social issues on Tuesday because the boycott did not work and raised costs for the city. California may also soon repeal a similar boycott law.

A San Francisco Target store has put its merchandise on lockdown as the city remains unable to curb its shoplifting crisis.