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New SF Chamber of Commerce Poll Finds 43% Of Residents Now Believe City is Heading in Right Direction

February 27, 2025 7:45 amFebruary 27, 2025 7:46 am

A new poll released by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday found that 43% of residents now believe the city is headed in the right direction, up from 22% last year. Previous Chamber of Commerce CityBeat polls were...

Gov. Newsom Expands Winter Storm State Of Emergency To 11 Northern California Counties

March 22, 2024 7:59 pmMarch 22, 2024 7:59 pm

Governor Gavin Newsom expanded the number of counties covered under a previous State of Emergency declaration over winter storms and subsequent events such as flooding on Friday, adding 11 Northern California counties to the original list of eight. In February,...

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco Declares Bankruptcy

August 22, 2023 12:42 pmAugust 22, 2023 12:42 pm

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone announced late on Monday that the Archdiocese would be filing for bankruptcy, becoming the latest to do so in California because of the high number of child sexual abuse lawsuits. In the past ten years,...

SF DA Jenkins Blames County Courts Releasing Dealers Without A Trial For Worsening Fentanyl Situation In SF

August 4, 2023 1:16 pmAugust 4, 2023 1:16 pm

At a Tenderloin public safety town hall meeting in San Francisco, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins blamed the San Francisco County court system for the city’s current fentanyl problem, saying that they release many suspected dealers without a trial,...

Walgreens To Pay $230 Million Settlement to San Francisco for Contributing to Opioid Epidemic

May 17, 2023 8:05 pmMay 18, 2023 5:00 am

San Francisco reached a $230 million settlement with Walgreens on Friday over the companies role in the opioid crisis in the city, completing a District Court case last year that had found Walgreens guilty. The city, like many areas of...

SF Mayor London Breed Proposes $27.6 Million In Funding For SFPD Overtime

February 16, 2023 12:31 pmFebruary 16, 2023 12:31 pm

San Francisco Mayor London Breed Proposed earlier this week that San Francisco should authorize $27.6 million in additional overtime funding for the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to help retain officers and to make up for a severe officer shortage...

New Report: SFPD Short 825 Officers By the End of 2022

September 20, 2022 2:30 amSeptember 19, 2022 4:53 pm

A new report released on Monday showed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) is currently short 525 officers, and may be down up to 825 by the end of the year. For years, the SFPD has been down a...