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This week’s workload at City Hall looks to be lighter than last week as the board of supervisors prepares to adjourn for summer recess through August. Nevertheless, some significant issues under the spotlight include whether to ban “whippets,” finalizing appointments to the Planning Commission, and settling sore spots

On February 5, 2025, Tomasa Hernández awoke to a distant fire alarm in her four-floor apartment building at 907 Valencia Street. After trying to sleep through it, she eventually rose from her bed and peeked out the front door of her one-bedroom apartment to see one of her neighbors running down the hallway.

A new analysis shows that some drivers in the city rack up hundreds of tickets a year. Here’s where they’re concentrated.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Berkeley Scanner (@berkeleyscanner) . An exterior solar battery caught fire at a North Berkeley home Sunday, quickly spreading to a towering palm tree nearby, according to early reports. Readers who saw the dramatic sight, in the 1400 block of Milvia Street, near Vine St

Rafael knew what he was up against. He had seen the stories about San Francisco’s surge in over-asking offers and lack of inventory and knew his $700,000 budget was well below the $1.2 million citywide median for a condo unit. But the software engineer was also bored with Fremont,...

Dick Vivian, who turned Rooky Ricardo’s Records into a Lower Haight gathering place for soul fans, musicians and vinyl collectors, has died at 78.

A woman was taken to the hospital Saturday afternoon with non-life threatening injuries after an electric unicycle struck her while she was crossing the Great Highway. Woman hit by unicycle while crossing the Great Highway

Four men were shot while trying to intervene in an altercation between a man and woman in San Francisco Getty Four men were shot while trying to break up a fight between a man and a woman in San Francisco on Saturday, police said. The shooting happened just before 1 a.m. on the corner of Mason and Market streets in the

More than 30,000 athletes crossed the finish line Sunday as the 49th annual San Francisco Marathon concluded along the Embarcadero. The two-day event featured a 52.4-mile ultramarathon and a traditional 26.2-mile marathon, alongside half marathon, 10K and 5K races. Participants ran past iconic city landmarks, including