SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved.

As comms chief for Google, Facebook, Uber, and Netflix, she helped write Silicon Valley’s political playbook. Does she want to help her husband rule the state?

The $54 million Willie Brown Middle School was to be the pride of SFUSD. Then it cracked apart. Now its principal has led a once-unthinkable turnaround.

The last taboo in sports will be broken this weekend in Vegas. That might not be a bad thing.

The sister of Sean Monterrosa, who was killed by a Vallejo cop in 2020, blasts the former attorney general and gubernatorial front-runner for failing to investigate her brother’s killing.

Player transfers, claims of an abusive culture, and no NCAA Tournament berths for two years add up to a diminished program in Palo Alto.

The Salesforce CEO now principally lives, works, and votes elsewhere, but as he argued in an interview with The Standard, “nobody has given more than my family.”

Cluely’s 21-year-old CEO wants to put AI chips in your brain. But first, he's throwing a $1.5 million rave

All over Silicon Valley, companies are realizing they hired the same gifted coder, often at the same time.

After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

Current and former staffers spill on what brought Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's personal philanthropy to abandon its progressive values

“This song goes out to them,” Surprise Privilege singer Joey S. said, pointing to the Charlie Kirk rally crowd. “It’s called ‘Fuck You.’”

Every last detail matters for Golden State. That extends to the bench dynamic, which is a critical part of the Warriors' culture.

Crypto founder Jeffy Yu appeared to commit suicide in a Sunday video. Then we found him alive and well on Wednesday at his dad's San Francisco home.

“They are making sure to cut anything that would sound or even be construed as DEI-esque,” one former employee said.

Inside the guerrilla effort to keep San Francisco’s rope swings in the air.

Crypto founder Jeffy Yu appeared to commit suicide in a Sunday livestream. Then we found him alive and well on Wednesday at his dad's San Francisco home.

Chrissy McGarry says she’s the victim of a company that took the worst traits of Silicon Valley and the military and combined them.

The initiative is being organized by a former president of First Republic Bank and coincides with another new entity: the San Francisco Downtown Development Corporation.

A foursome of policy chiefs will attempt what a legion of veteran bureaucrats have been unable to accomplish: Make SF run efficiently.

Time staffers are growing increasingly anxious about all of owner Marc Benioff's tweets about Donald Trump.

In a wide-ranging exit interview, Mayor London Breed takes shots at critics, touts her achievements around the pandemic and public safety, and warns of Trump’s return to the White House.

A Mission Bay coffee shop's co-owner says he is heartened by community support after a pair of break-ins this week.

The 12-person San Francisco jury reached the verdict after deliberating for seven days.

No one can seem to pin down Luigi Magione’s weird confluence of beliefs — no one, that is, except the members of this strange subculture.

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old identified as a “strong person of interest” in last week’s slaying of a health insurance executive on the streets of Manhattan, was reported missing to San Francisco po...

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The San Francisco Standard, that city’s lively and well-funded digital upstart, is experimenting with tiered membership.

Ricci Wynne, a drug dealer turned activist known for Fox News appearances and trashing San Francisco online was arrested Monday morning on suspicion of pimping.

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San Francisco police have arrested one homeless man five times since the city launched a crackdown on sidewalk encampments. But the man continues to return to the scene because it's next to his childh...

Independence, inexperience, and extraordinary wealth: San Francisco's mayor-elect and New York's ex-mayor have much in common.

Aydea, 'the only Tatar cafe on the American continent,’ serves up surprise after surprise in SoMa.

A trendy Outer Richmond spot threw itself a birthday party, and it was the place to be.

Exclusive: Assemblymember Matt Haney used campaign funds to stay in a luxury castle in Ireland, among other lavish spending uncovered by The Standard.

London Breed recently signed a law outlawing sideshows and dirt bike gatherings. But dirt bikers in San Francisco say “bike life” is a valuable community and a stress outlet — not a menace to society.