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San Francisco’s iconic cable cars will run in time for holiday shopping, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency said Tuesday.

Democrats nixed an amendment to redirect $140 million from a subway in Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco to mental health services for children.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed released a plan Thursday to redistribute $120 million from the city’s law enforcement budget to projects aimed at helping the city’s black minority.

After months of draconian coronavirus restrictions, school officials want to open two California Bay Area high schools for one hour a week.

Berkeley, California, is considering a plan to end zoning for single-family homes by December 2022.

San Francisco has become a “desolate” city over the past year, as the pandemic forced people to work from home — and companies learned to embrace it.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the San Francisco Department of Public Health has issued guidance on having safe sex in the coronavirus era.

A Tesla driver’s dashcam recorded the moment an alleged smash-and-grab robbery occurred Friday in San Francisco traffic.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher reacted to San Francisco voting to rename several high schools by stating that “when you can’t put out the fires and you can’t build a house,” it makes it seem

San Francisco’s school board is planning to drop merit-based admissions to Lowell High School because of concerns that the tests reinforce “systemic racism” at the majority-Asian institution.

The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has deemed acronyms a “symptom of white supremacy culture.” In response, its performing arts department will dump the acronym “VAPA” in favor of the name “SFUSD Arts Department.” According to the director of the department, “The use of so many acronyms within the educational field often tends to alienate those who may not speak English to understand the acronym.”

San Francisco police arrested a 19-year-old man on suspicion of murder following a recent attack on an 84-year-old man in the Anza Vista neighborhood.

San Francisco could rename one of the schools whose names it is dropping due to allegedly “racist” connotations after the late Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, who performed often in the city in the psychedelic heyday of the 1960s.

The San Francisco Board of Education voted to rename 44 of the city’s schools, claiming that prominent figures from American history, such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Paul Revere, were tied to racist incidents. The committee based their decisions on Wikipedia and other wildly inaccurate information to source its claims.

The San Francisco school board has voted to remove names of dozens of schools that some people have deemed to be offensive.

San Francisco schools will be stripped of names honoring famous American leaders, including Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

Employees of tech companies in San Francisco, California, can’t leave the city fast enough, fleeing for the potential tech hubs of tomorrow such as Austin, Texas, and Miami, Florida. One former San Francisco exec said: “what else can God and the world and government come up with to make the place less livable?”

President Biden signed an executive order on Thursday that could have American taxpayers covering 100 percent of the cost of “homeless hotels” through September in cities such as San Francisco.

More than 50 restaurateurs in the San Francisco Bay Area are suing California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom over his ban on in-person dining.

San Francisco police are reportedly preparing for a possible pro-Trump demonstration at Twitter’s headquarters today following the recent permanent blacklisting of President Donald Trump’s account.

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office repeatedly declined to jail a parolee for multiple arrests before he allegedly killed two pedestrians in a hit-and-run on New Year’s Eve.

Bay Area residents received a wake-up call early Thursday morning in the form of a 3.6 magnitude earthquake just outside of San Francisco.

A statue of Abraham Lincoln was defaced over the weekend at San Francisco’s City Hall, the latest assault on the 16th president, who is also known as the Great Emancipator for his role in leading the Civil War and ultimately abolishing slavery.

A gingerbread monolith resembling the metal ones previously seen around the world appeared in San Francisco’s Corona Heights Park on Christmas Day.

SF education officials want to rename a school named after Abraham Lincoln because the 16th U.S. president’s life was “stained by racism.”

The San Francisco school board voted earlier this week on a plan for assigning students to elementary schools to increase diversity.

The San Francisco Chronicle is predicting a “total restaurant apocalypse” in the San Francisco Bay Area as a result of the region’s new coronavirus shutdown orders, forcing thousands of business to close and lay off employees in the near future.

San Francisco has banned smoking tobacco inside apartments due to secondhand smoke concerns but residents are still allowed to smoke pot.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone said this weekend that a new ban on worship violates a “a natural and a Constitutional right.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) may be the next target of the “Cancel Culture” crowd as an advisory group seeks to rename a San Francisco school bearing her name.

A recent report from NBC News suggests that many residents in the San Francisco Bay Area are happy to see the tech giants that made the area so popular move to cities such as Denver, Colorado, and Austin, Texas.

Discarded masks and personal protective equipment (PPE) have begun to wash into the San Francisco Bay with the arrival of the first winter rains, creating a new local pollution problem.

San Francisco’s 11-member Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Monday to ban the use of natural gas in new buildings as a measure to fight climate change.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone released a statement Wednesday arguing for ‘inclusive’ civil unions that disregard people’s sexual proclivities to embrace non-sexual living arrangements.

Supervisors in San Francisco unanimously voted on Tuesday to pass the Caution Against Racially and Exploitative Non-Emergencies (CAREN) Act, which would outlaw racially motivated 911 calls.

A known MS-13 Gang member, living illegally in the United States, was arrested but went unprosecuted by then-San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris’ office months before he murdered a California family.