‘The fish rots from the head,’ says one expert — and the smell is coming from the governor’s mansion.

Living in a horse stall reeking of manure is a lasting, common memory for people who were incarcerated in the Tanforan Assembly Center.

The Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at SFSU was described as a niche, inclusive institution like no other.

Superintendent Maria Su has avoided teacher layoffs, slashed central office staff, and promised to ‘make magic happen.’ The real test starts this fall.

Hikers from a summer camp group found an injured man shivering violently with blood...

It was March 2023, and Luis Gante was lying in bed and grappling with a moral dilemma. A shooter had recently walked into an elementary school in Nashville and opened fire, killing three 9-year-old children and three teachers. The news had shaken…

San Francisco's public school staff just started their third school year with a faulty payroll system, and the district is still slogging through a backlog of 3,000 issues. For employees of the San Francisco Unified School District, a…

In the 1980s, esteemed Berkeley professor and self-described unrepentant supporter of affirmative action Ling-Chi Wang was on a mission—one that would be cited in a major Supreme Court case ruled on Thursday. Wang spent the latter half of the decade…

Until he was 25 years old, Eli Oh made his living by waiting tables off the books—in spite of holding a nursing degree. His family arrived in San Jose from South Korea on tourist visas in 1998 when he was 11 years old, having borrowed money to move…

Barring the occasional fight over all the things teenagers occasionally fight about, one eighth grader at Francisco Middle School wouldn’t say their North Beach campus was filled with tension. But during lunch one day in March, the school went on a…

In July, several months into the San Francisco Unified School District’s disastrous payroll switch, one of its longtime paraeducators, Eddy Alarcon, underwent tests to get to the bottom of some recent health issues. That’s when the Mission District…

It took years for Danthu Pham to get her credential, but just months of teaching during the pandemic to quit the profession. In February, just a couple of months after finally getting her teaching credential, the Vietnamese language teacher founder…

In the wake of February’s nationally watched school board recall, many have floated theories as to why San Franciscans voted overwhelmingly to oust all three commissioners on the ballot. But many who were on the ground for the contentious election…

‘I remember being mortified and humiliated’

An investor-backed media group laid claim to the moniker of SF’s long-running Hyphen magazine, sparking a conversation about writing over community history

Rowell spent more than two decades introducing your weird, favorite bands during a bygone era of local music journalism. He died at age 56.

Vallie Brown, the District 5 supervisor in the midst of a heated election, has said she knows what it’s like to get evicted. It was often the reason why she and her artist friends hopped from one SoMa warehouse to the other for nearly a decade.…

The night Aardvark Books ended its 40-year run on Church Street, customers could be seen carrying stacks of books from near-empty shelves past farewell signs that hinted at some unfinished business. The loss of a beloved bookstore was one thing, but…

For 50 years, researchers have lived on the pure, wild reaches of the Farallon Islands roughly 30 miles from San Francisco. Here’s what it’s like to be the only humans

Not far from the radioactive soil of Hunters Point, city environmental engineer Amy Brownell sits stoically in a room full of people who want her fired. Someone tells her she should protect herself from criminal prosecution and become a whistleblower…