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The San Francisco Standard
Text • Tim Kawakami

Kawakami: Draft hits, McCaffrey clarity, and more we’ve learned from 49ers camp

Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch don’t draft like everybody else, which seems to have worked out well for the team this year.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Max Harrison-Caldwell

San Francisco cut red tape to spur development. Is the market catching up?

As rents skyrocket, developers are predicting a building boom in the next two years.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Jessica Blough

Union Square was written off. Is it finally back?

San Francisco’s famous shopping district became synonymous with closures and dysfunction. Now the conditions are in place for it to thrive again.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Omar Rashad

Lurie rejects core reforms of homelessness oversight audit

The Civil Grand Jury’s key recommendations aimed to increase oversight of homelessness funding and housing sites where unhoused people overdose.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler

Search warrants are supposed to be secret. Why was Eric Swalwell’s public?

Plus: The fight for every last word in the voter information pamphlet, and Lurie finally sits at the bargaining table.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • David Lombardi

49ers stars align: With Kittle and McCaffrey back at practice, Purdy fires away

The team’s star tight end and running back returned to the practice field Sunday and are optimistic the offense could be at full strength by Week 1.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Kevin V. Nguyen

AI robotics companies love San Francisco. They’re just too big to stay

The city is still ground zero for the industry boom. But as machine companies scale up, they can’t find the space to match.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • John Shea

How MLB’s looming lockout will shape the Giants’ decisions on prospect promotions

Buster Posey has an incentive to evaluate Bo Davidson in the big leagues this season, but Parks Harber may have to wait until 2027 for his debut.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Emily Landes

Home is where the in-laws are

Bay Area buyers are considering family compounds as an answer to single-family home premiums and the loneliness epidemic 

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Sara Deseran

The Castro’s best new restaurant pushes the SF Thai food scene even further

Ka Kai’s owners thought San Franciscans needed to ease into the less-familiar northern Thai cuisine. Turns out they were wrong.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Peggy Northrop

Opinion: This Silicon Valley campus was a paradise. Bulldoze it.

A developer‘s plan for 665 apartments at Sunset magazine’s HQ has angered locals. I ran the magazine — and think California needs housing more than a shrine to suburbia.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Zara Stone

‘Unlock and blossom into abundance’: Meet the executive coach to AI’s elite

Katia Verresen has made a career teaching Silicon Valley executives to slow down.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Emily Dreyfuss

The Waggle: Willie ‘I’m not dead yet’ Brown had no idea who dumped his awards at SCRAP

But Da Mayor doesn’t want them back. Also in this week’s Waggle: a new Lurie baby, a #luxurynanny, and a tech-conference afterparty with a billionaire DJ.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Garrett Leahy

Lead paint work meant for summer break stretched into the school year at SF elementary

SFUSD says the work is safe, but parents say they didn’t learn it would continue into the school year until they showed up on the first day of instruction.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Jesse Alejandro Cottrell

SF tenants told to pack up and leave in a week. Their landlord never filed the permits

Residents of a fire-damaged downtown building say they were blindsided by an email demanding they clear out by Sunday — with no relocation payments offered.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Stephanie K. Baer

Two shelter staffers arrested for allegedly harboring man who shot SFPD officer

Police say the employees gave the suspect clothing to conceal his identity and lied to officers to prevent them from locating him.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • George Kelly

Golden Gate Bridge protesters get 30-day jail sentences

The seven must pay fines and do community work as part of the penalty for obstructing the bridge during a 2024 protest against the war in Gaza.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Kerry Crowley

‘Section 415’ podcast: How Giants broadcasts will sound without Mike Krukow

Play-by-play voice Duane Kuiper will continue working after his close friend retires.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Kerry Crowley

Matt ‘Tugboat’ Wilkinson has an elite nickname. Can he be a great Giants pitcher too?

The left-handed prospect threw two scoreless innings Wednesday in his MLB debut against the Guardians.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Stephanie Gerson

Weekend Itinerary: The best events and eats for Aug. 21-23 in SF

Don’t let Fogust keep you inside. From a free movie night in the Marina to wrestling at Ocean Beach, we planned a full weekend of the city’s best bites and happenings.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Astrid Kane

This ski-themed bar proves after-work drinks are so back in San Francisco

Boozy and slightly unhinged, Shotski’s Alpine Lodge is how Future Bars is getting its groove back.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Mara Finley

A decade of IVF hell nearly erased me. Sex with a stranger brought me back

Our new relationships column: The fertility treatments were my husband’s plan. The night at The Mirage was mine.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Emily Dreyfuss

To stay in SF or go? For some families, the deciding factor is the school lottery

Families who land in San Francisco’s public school system tend to love it. But the stress of enrollment still drives people out of SF or straight into private school.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Emily Shugerman

‘He better not f*** it up’: The billionaire whisperer leading tech’s anti-tax army

Once a campaign finance reformer who railed against big money in politics, Ned Wigglesworth is now wielding it in the year’s most contentious campaign.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Maggie Angst

SF tried to ban its way to lower rents. Then the AI boom hit

A 2024 law that banned landlords from using rent-setting algorithms has yet to produce a single lawsuit.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Garrett Leahy

San Francisco tells residents to report drug use to 311. Then it cancels the complaints

Hundreds of drug-use complaints filed via app have been canceled, with users told to call police themselves — a step most aren't willing to take.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • David Lombardi

49ers takeaways: Stribling stars, Black pops in debut, and Cowing makes a statement

Quarterback Brock Purdy played 12 snaps on Thursday against the Chargers and connected with rookie wide receiver De’Zhaun Stribling on three passes.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler

Feds confiscated Eric Swalwell’s iPhone and Macbook Pro, document shows

Authorities appear to be building a civil rights case against the former congressman, according to the statute cited in a search warrant obtained by The Standard.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Jane Kenny

Natalie Nakase always has an answer. Now she faces the Valkyries’ toughest question yet

Golden State’s coach has instilled her team with stubbornness and swagger. It still needs a solution against the WNBA’s best defenses.

The San Francisco Standard
Text • Astrid Kane

This Mission restaurant took a decade to open. The fish taco was worth the wait

Chicano Nuevo’s $95 tasting menu turns a humble beach-town staple into an elaborate, deeply personal expression of Abe Núñez’s cooking.