METABLOKS / SAN FRANCISCO

SF Standard

SF moves to ban unsafe e-bike batteries after fires displace hundreds, kill one

There were more than 120 lithium-ion battery incidents in 2024 and 2025. The fire chief calls uncertified devices “a serious and growing danger to the public.”

1 hour ago

SF Standard

SF moves to ban unsafe e-bike batteries after fires displace hundreds, kill one

SF Standard

After 28 years, Yerba Buena ice rink operator gets frozen out. Who will take over?

San Francisco’s only year-round rink will close for renovations this summer and get new management.

2 hours ago

SF Standard

After 28 years, Yerba Buena ice rink operator gets frozen out. Who will take over?

SF Standard

Steve Kerr has a big decision ahead. His son has already made his

Nicholas Kerr, at the opposite end of a career from his father, wants to coach “as long as I’m allowed to.”

5 hours ago

SF Standard

Steve Kerr has a big decision ahead. His son has already made his

SF Standard

Heated district race shows the lengths — and limits — of Lurie’s big-money network

Down a million against Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, challenger Lori Brooke says she shouldn’t be counted out.

5 hours ago

SF Standard

Heated district race shows the lengths — and limits — of Lurie’s big-money network

SF Standard

San Francisco Bay Ferry plays a key role in downtown resurgence

A pleasant, safe, and affordable alternative to the dreaded car commute.

1 day ago

SF Standard

San Francisco Bay Ferry plays a key role in downtown resurgence

Mission Local

Missing

At Shuggie’s. Photo by Angel Mayorga. Missing

5 hours ago

Mission Local

Missing

Mission Local

Mission Local is expanding, adding new neighborhood coverage

Mission Local is expanding to new neighborhoods, with beat coverage in the Tenderloin, Richmond, Sunset, Bayview, and Mission District. Mission Local is expanding, adding new neighborhood coverage

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Mission Local

Mission Local is expanding, adding new neighborhood coverage

Mission Local

Sunset residents wanted a nonprofit out. Decades later, it proved itself to them.

Cops, disgruntled residents and skeptical neighbors: Sunset Youth Services changed hearts and minds in the Westside over 34 years. Sunset residents wanted a nonprofit out. Decades later, it proved itself to them.

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Mission Local

Sunset residents wanted a nonprofit out. Decades later, it proved itself to them.

Mission Local

S.F. set to lose over 450 shelter beds in Tenderloin

San Francisco is on track to lose hundreds of shelter beds as the city began closing multiple homeless shelters in recent weeks. S.F. set to lose over 450 shelter beds in Tenderloin

17 hours ago

Mission Local

S.F. set to lose over 450 shelter beds in Tenderloin

Mission Local

Doll's head revisited

On 22nd Street. Photo by Walter Mackins. Doll's head revisited

1 day ago

Mission Local

Doll's head revisited

Mission Local

25-story Marina Safeway behemoth, inconceivable even to sci-fi futurists, looking very real

District 2 supe and San Francisco mayor can shake fists at proposed high-rise, but little else. Neither joined a call for Safeway boycott. 25-story Marina Safeway behemoth, inconceivable even to sci-fi futurists, looking very real

1 day ago

Mission Local

25-story Marina Safeway behemoth, inconceivable even to sci-fi futurists, looking very real

SFiST

Tuesday Morning Topline: Five-Year-Old Drowns In Lake Shasta

A five-year-old boy drowned in Lake Shasta Monday; a fuel spill shut down all southbound lanes of I-880 in Oakland this morning; and a 53-year-old suspect has pleaded not guilty to $225K in copper wire thefts on the Peninsula.

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SFiST

Tuesday Morning Topline: Five-Year-Old Drowns In Lake Shasta

SFiST

Attorney In Wrongful Death Suit For Oakland Math Teacher Says Police Treated Girlfriend as Suspect

New details from last year’s fatal police chase in East Oakland revealed that police may have treated Marvin Boomer’s girlfriend Nina Woodruff, who was also a bystander seriously injured in the crash, as a suspect and failed to give her treatment at the scene.

18 hours ago

SFiST

Attorney In Wrongful Death Suit For Oakland Math Teacher Says Police Treated Girlfriend as Suspect

SFiST

Photos: The 2026 Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race Down Vermont Street

The other festive, SF-specific Easter Sunday tradition besides the Hunky Jesus Contest in Dolores Park is of course the Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down the actual crookedest street, Vermont Street.

20 hours ago

SFiST

Photos: The 2026 Bring Your Own Big Wheel Race Down Vermont Street

SFiST

SF Fire Truck Collides With F-Line Streetcar on Embarcadero

A historic streetcar got T-boned by a San Francisco fire truck Monday morning, and it's unclear how the crash happened or whether anyone was injured.

22 hours ago

SFiST

SF Fire Truck Collides With F-Line Streetcar on Embarcadero

SFiST

SFPD Chief Tries to Downplay Rise In Homicides Since the New Year

The first three months of 2026 were significantly more murderous in San Francisco than the same three months a year earlier. There was, in fact, a 250% uptick in homicides, year over year, and SF Police Chief Derrick Lew is trying to emphasize that other types of crime remain down.

22 hours ago

SFiST

SFPD Chief Tries to Downplay Rise In Homicides Since the New Year

SFiST

British Tourist Goes Missing After Arriving at SFO, Footage Shows Man Meeting Her

The family of Katherine Kerwood, a 21-year-old woman from the UK who landed at SFO for a solo tour of Northern California last Tuesday, are searching for her whereabouts after her phone went silent Friday and they learned she never checked into her hostel when she landed.

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SFiST

British Tourist Goes Missing After Arriving at SFO, Footage Shows Man Meeting Her

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