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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 District Attorney Announces No Criminal Charges to Be Filed In Banko Brown Shooting Case

May 16, 2023 6:03 pmMay 16, 2023 6:03 pm

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday that they will not be filing criminal charges against a security guard who shot and killed a shoplifting criminal last week, finding that his actions to a threat were reasonable, as...

Fentanyl and San Francisco: The Crisis Seen From The Ground

May 13, 2023 7:34 amMay 13, 2023 7:34 am

For years, fentanyl has caused tens of thousands of deaths across the country, with many larger cities in California seeing hundreds of deaths a year. In the last few years, San Francisco has been the poster-child of what happens when...

San Francisco Collapse: More Store Closures, Lawlessness, Drugs, Homeless

May 11, 2023 7:53 amMay 12, 2023 1:07 pm

“After repeated break-in attempts over the last year, and more broken windows than we can count, we recently made the tough decision to close down the High Road Bike Shop,” reads the message of the electric bike store’s website. “We...

San Francisco Supervisors Introduce & Pass Resolution Over Banko Brown Shooting Incident

May 11, 2023 2:29 amMay 11, 2023 2:30 am

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors introduced legislation this week that would limit how security guards could use firearms and urging DA Brooke Jenkins to release all police reports, witness accounts, and video footage associated with the case to further...

T-Mobile, Williams-Sonoma Latest Stores To Close In San Francisco

May 8, 2023 7:08 pmMay 8, 2023 7:08 pm

San Francisco’s Union Square faced two more major losses on Monday following the pull out of T-Mobile’s flagship store at 1 Stockton Street and the closure of Williams-Sonoma at 340 Post by the end of the year. The Globe has...

New Report Shows San Francisco Has Worst Downtown Recovery Rate Of Any Major US, Canadian City

May 6, 2023 2:30 amMay 6, 2023 2:31 am

A new report released on Friday found that San Francisco currently has the worst downtown recovery rate of large cities in the US and Canada, coming in with only 32% recovery of activity before the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the...