Sheryl Davis, who led the Human Rights Commission, has gone on leave after The Standard presented evidence of the relationship to Mayor Breed’s office.

The event featured high-profile speakers like former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul and Ukraine Consulate General Dmytro Kushneruk

The Mayor's Office announced Friday that Mawuli Tugbenyoh, a Department of Human Resources official, would serve as acting director of the Human Rights Commission.

In a historic endorsement, voting members of the teachers’ union for the San Francisco Unified School District passed a resolution on May 19 in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions...

Emails reveal top officials at the S.F. Health Department wrestled over what to tell the public.

The funding came from Mayor Breed’s Dream Keeper Initiative, which has budgeted $300 million for uplifting the city’s Black communities.

UPDATED July 29 at 11:43 a.m. A Sacramento-based alleged neo-Nazi is a suspect in a 2017 vandalism incident at Temple Or Rishon, police told J. on Wednesday. Andrew Richard Casarez, a 27-year-old...

“Tuesday is the last day to make preparations,” said one meteorologist. “Take advantage of that.”

The Mayor's Office announced Friday that Mawuli Tugbenyoh, a Department of Human Resources official, would serve as acting director of the Human Rights Commission.

Former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo says the project to bring BART to the city’s downtown needs to be scaled down, citing ballooning costs that have now amounted to $12.2 billion

Exclusive: A nonprofit organization with ties to Gov. Gavin Newsom paid for a $3,595 whale watching tour he took in Baja California during a snowstorm-related state of emergency. Staff at the time...

The figurine of Indian ruler Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was reported missing from the Guadalupe River Park on Jan. 31.

Assemblymember Matt Haney’s campaign has spent huge money on tickets to San Francisco sporting events and Broadway shows.

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Sylvia Arenas will be the first Democrat to hold the rural district’s post since 1997.

Santa Clara County Executive Jeff Smith said he’s “very concerned” and “shocked”

Question: How many commissions does City Hall have? Answer: So many that they can’t even tell you.

Documents show just one firefighter was disciplined and that firefighters couldn’t remember why they drove to a bikini bar after visiting the Pink Poodle strip club.

Sheryl Davis of the Human Rights Commission resigned Friday after The Standard revealed she shared a house with a man she directed contracts to.

Former San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos confirmed he was placed on leave from his position at an affordable housing nonprofit. Avalos was criticized this week for a tweet that was viewed as...

Petition leads to suspension of professional soccer player, changes in university policy

A view of Amsterdam at midday. A dark forest with sunlight peeking through the trees as a woman washes clothes in a river. A young boy feeding a monkey as a man to his left holds back a swan. These...

Gloria Hollander Lyon of San Francisco was just a teenager in 1944 when she and her family were forced from their home in Czechoslovakia, first into a ghetto and then to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She...

UPDATED Jan. 5, 10 a.m. The University of California, Merced has launched an inquiry into the conduct of Abbas Ghassemi, a teaching professor at the university’s School of Engineering who was the...

A new lawsuit aims to compel the city to hand over investigatory records related to the October incident at the Pink Poodle.

Suwanna Kerdkaew, who has risen through the ranks since 2002, says she’s determined to address the absence of women in the department highlighted in a 2020 civil grand jury report

Cristo Rey San Jose Jesuit High School’s president and CEO is Silvia Scandar Mahan, the wife of San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan

Mark McNamara, who joined the SJPD in 2017, cannot access his 18 firearms until May 2024, according to court documents filed in November.

Golden Gate Park’s Stow Lake is named for an antisemite who served in the state Assembly in the 1850s. Recent efforts to rename the lake have gone nowhere. But San Francisco Supervisor Myrna Melgar...

Jon Jacobo, a former rising star in San Francisco politics, resigned from his role at the influential affordable housing nonprofit TODCO after women made disturbing allegations against him that...

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg just dropped some serious cash to get Mayor London Breed reelected.

The city has shut down horseback riding in Golden Gate Park and near Yosemite after The Standard’s investigation into Chaparral Corporation revealed years of complaints about the company.

“If cities and counties can simply sidestep state law and prevent construction of housing, that’s just really bad for citizens around this entire state,” said a Stanford professor suing Santa Clara…

Many Bay Area cities are offering free sandbags to residents in preparation of another major storm. Here’s where you can pick yours up.

San Jose developers are downsizing housing proposals; officials say they’re caught in ‘loophole’

The city doesn’t know how many gun owners have opted in for the insurance — and may never get that data

Zoom announced late Tuesday afternoon that San Francisco State University will not be allowed to use its videoconferencing platform to host an event Wednesday featuring Palestinian hijacker Leila...

Departments trying to step up recruiting efforts