METABLOKS / SAN FRANCISCO

SF Standard

$18 cable car rides, parking meter price hikes: SFMTA approves new budget

The cash-strapped agency raised some fares and lowered some fines. Here’s a breakdown of what’s changing.

9 hours ago

SF Standard

$18 cable car rides, parking meter price hikes: SFMTA approves new budget

SF Standard

4 things to know about SF’s dangerous Crestwood mental health facility

A Standard investigation found that chaos and violence inside the Crestwood Healing Center are traumatizing and abusing patients with nowhere else to go.

14 hours ago

SF Standard

4 things to know about SF’s dangerous Crestwood mental health facility

SF Standard

‘It was a wild, dangerous place’: Inside San Francisco’s troubled mental health ward

One horrific attack epitomizes the dangers inside the Crestwood Healing Center, where patients are traumatized rather than healed, claim staff.

20 hours ago

SF Standard

‘It was a wild, dangerous place’: Inside San Francisco’s troubled mental health ward

SF Standard

Valkyries training camp: Roster battles heat up as Golden State begins Year 2

A roster headlined by Veronica Burton, Gabby Williams, and Kayla Thornton will be hard to crack for newcomers that include Mariella Fasoula and Miela Sowah.

20 hours ago

SF Standard

Valkyries training camp: Roster battles heat up as Golden State begins Year 2

SF Standard

Japantown is about to cut the mic on this popular karaoke bar

Festa claims Kinokinuya Building management declined to renew its lease, which expires at the end of the year.

20 hours ago

SF Standard

Japantown is about to cut the mic on this popular karaoke bar

Mission Local

One of San Francisco's two immigration courts to shutter, 8 months early

The Montgomery Street court will close by May 1, leaving San Francisco with a drastically reduced capacity for asylum-seekers. One of San Francisco's two immigration courts to shutter, 8 months early

8 hours ago

Mission Local

One of San Francisco's two immigration courts to shutter, 8 months early

Mission Local

Meet the District 2 candidates: Should more drug users be arrested?

District 2 candidates Stephen Sherrill and Lori Brooke share their thoughts on SFPD stepping up arrests of people using drugs on the street Meet the District 2 candidates: Should more drug users be arrested?

10 hours ago

Mission Local

Meet the District 2 candidates: Should more drug users be arrested?

Mission Local

Review: Smuin Ballet’s Future Forward comes to the Bay Area

A skilled troupe of dancers and motivated choreographers have created a well-crafted quartet of ballets in "Future Forward." Review: Smuin Ballet’s Future Forward comes to the Bay Area

12 hours ago

Mission Local

Review: Smuin Ballet’s Future Forward comes to the Bay Area

Mission Local

Richmond Buzz: Openings, closings, and composting

In this Richmond Buzz: a theater turns 100, local acts drop new albums, and the ever-shifting small business landscape shifts a bit more. Richmond Buzz: Openings, closings, and composting

14 hours ago

Mission Local

Richmond Buzz: Openings, closings, and composting

Mission Local

Mayor Lurie moves S.F. homeless street-outreach teams to health department

The Lurie administration has increasingly emphasized the health needs of people on the street Mayor Lurie moves S.F. homeless street-outreach teams to health department

15 hours ago

Mission Local

Mayor Lurie moves S.F. homeless street-outreach teams to health department

Mission Local

Welcome to the TL

At Eddy and Polk Streets. Photo by Robert B. Livingston. Welcome to the TL

20 hours ago

Mission Local

Welcome to the TL

SFiST

Day Around the Bay: Two People Found Dead Inside Car at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park

Texas lawmakers can now legally require public schools to display the Ten Commandments; Alcatraz is closed to tours for a week while the dock gets repaired; and a man and a woman were found dead of potential overdoses inside a car in West Berkeley.

7 hours ago

SFiST

Day Around the Bay: Two People Found Dead Inside Car at Berkeley’s Aquatic Park

SFiST

Fugitive Suspect Arrested, Extradited In East Palo Alto Double Homicide From 2018

Nearly eight years after two men were fatally shot during a late-night altercation at a private Halloween party in East Palo Alto, the suspect, who reportedly fled to Mexico after the shooting, has returned to face justice.

10 hours ago

SFiST

Fugitive Suspect Arrested, Extradited In East Palo Alto Double Homicide From 2018

SFiST

Water Line Rupture Leads to Flooding Inside Treasure Island Tunnel on Bay Bridge

A burst water main caused flooding Tuesday afternoon on a portion of the eastbound Bay Bridge inside the Treasure Island Tunnel, leading to the brief closure of two lanes of traffic.

10 hours ago

SFiST

Water Line Rupture Leads to Flooding Inside Treasure Island Tunnel on Bay Bridge

SFiST

AI Store Manager Paying Female Employees Less, Can't Stop Ordering Candles

That AI-run retail store experiment in Cow Hollow may or may not be going well, depending on who you ask. But it's gotten plenty of media attention, and perhaps that is mostly what the company behind it was after.

13 hours ago

SFiST

AI Store Manager Paying Female Employees Less, Can't Stop Ordering Candles

SFiST

Kaiser Has Plans For Big New Hospital at Geary and Divis

Kaiser Permanente is preparing to submit plans to the city for the company's first new hospital in San Francisco in over 70 years, and it would replace its existing hospital at Geary and Divisadero.

14 hours ago

SFiST

Kaiser Has Plans For Big New Hospital at Geary and Divis

SFiST

Crash Involving Muni Bus and Car Sends Four to Hospital

Four people, including the driver of a car, were injured Monday afternoon when a Muni bus collided with a car in the Mission District.

15 hours ago

SFiST

Crash Involving Muni Bus and Car Sends Four to Hospital

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