Prop. 50, which Newsom dubbed the “Election Rigging Response Act,” is California’s response to gerrymandering efforts by President Trump and Texas Republicans.

Izzy Gardon and Brandon Richards are leading a social media blitz against Trump and his allies.

The effort to remove the supervisor from office began with his support for Prop. K, which closed the Great Highway to cars and ignited a political firestorm on the west side.

Texas hasn’t reported a new outbreak-related measles case in nearly a month — a hopeful sign that one of the largest outbreaks the United States has seen in decades is starting to slow. But the measle...

Mayor Daniel Lurie continues to pay a team of consultants to help craft his public image after his campaign shattered election spending records.

The city is pushing forward with plans to demolish an old coffee roastery and warehouse to make room for a new fire station next to a huge high-rise building. Local preservationists are outraged.

Mayor Daniel Lurie continues to pay a team of consultants to help craft his public image after his campaign shattered election spending records.

Financing statements — meant to record legitimate business liens — are now a vehicle for conspiracy-laced claims, trillion-dollar demands and vendettas against politicians, businesses and public emplo...

The two states have entered an all-out redistricting battle to determine which party takes control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 election. “Everything is at stake if we are not succ...

Mamdani may not be the savior the left craves, but his win has important lessons for San Francisco's Democrats

Empty shops, workers staying home, and some even self-deporting. This isn’t the calm before the storm, but an anxious scramble — a collective rush to bar the doors, board up the windows, and get the h...

Inside the newspaper, the announcement landed with a thud.

In a courtroom in Boston on Monday, a lawyer for Harvard called the Trump administration’s case against the school “cooked up.”

A whole lot of 2028 Democratic hopefuls seem to be visiting the state.

Supervisors are probing the former leadership of the Parks Alliance, a once-influential nonprofit that closed in June after allegations of financial misconduct.

A mysterious $125M gift transformed the San Francisco LightHouse for the Blind and Visually impaired. A decade later, layoffs, protests, and financial losses leave the nonprofit fighting to survive.

The Board of Supervisors approved Mayor Daniel Lurie’s budget. Progressive Board of Supervisor member Jackie Fielder was the sole “no” vote.

The original bill mandated that each supervisorial district approve at least one homeless shelter by mid-2026, but faced pushback from Mayor Daniel Lurie.

Violent clashes involving federal agents have raised difficulty questions inside the SFPD and City Hall.

Planning Commissioner Kathrin Moore approved multiple projects for her former employer, architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, despite being warned by city attorneys that her votes could violat...

Despite a highly publicized crackdown over the past two years, the illegal drug market lives on.

Today we launch the GavTracker, a tool to track whether the ambitious California governor appears more or less likely to launch a bid for the White House in 2028.

A member of the SF planning commission earns up to $100K in income from an architecture firm while approving its projects, The Standard has learned.

Across California, clergy leaders are accompanying migrants at their asylum hearings. 'We’re there trying to appeal to a higher authority than ICE,' one pastor said.

After a year of controversy over alleged mismanagement, employee safety violations, and animal welfare abuses, Tanya Peterson said she will retire in August.

The Trump administration shut down a website with national reports on climate change. Scientists decry the move, saying it robs the public of vital information.

One pro-housing advocate said the two bills make “extremely consequential progress on building more housing in California.” Opponents said the changes would “poison our air, water, and land across the...

Newsom argues that the network deliberately misled its viewers on the timing of his call with the president and accused the governor of lying.

A Standard analysis shows that the growth of San Francisco City Hall has far outpaced the city’s population since 2005. Many of those jobs are in the Department of Public Health, the Municipal Transpo...

In exploring a potential criminal trial, Spain is now testing how far a democracy can go in holding officials accountable after a natural disaster.

"It appears that Gavin got his groove back,' said a prominent California labor leader of Newsom's latest fight with Trump. "And I’m here for it."

A faction of protesters in the Mission District vandalized Manny’s Cafe during a demonstration against ICE and President Trump’s deployment of the National Guard.

San Francisco police have been quietly using artificial intelligence to write reports for weeks, but critics worry that the technology could lead to abuses of power.

At a recent symposium at San Quentin prison, a group of district attorneys from across California met with inmates to talk about the state's model of prison reform.

It’s the second consecutive statewide convention Newsom won’t attend.

In news of interest to anyone who's ever stepped in something awful, SF street cleaners will get a boost in Mayor Daniel Lurie's budget, set to be unveiled in the coming days.

The effort to recall Supervisor Joel Engardio was officially validated by the Department of Elections on Thursday, triggering a special election in September

A budget meeting between the mayor’s staff and city directors focused on plans for how to handle layoffs in a dozen-plus departments.

Newsom told a group of business leaders on Tuesday that his party should “own up” to its election failures and defended his decision to platform controversial right-wing figures on his personal podcas...