Michael Barba

The findings were part of a new report detailing how San Francisco held nonprofits accountable for the $1.63 billion it paid them last fiscal year to fight its biggest challenges.

Records shed light on an incident in Derrick Lew’s career, when a man fired at him from close range. Nearly two decades later, Lew is now among those believed to be in the running for police...

The woman described Beya Alcaraz as someone who “cannot run a business,” and said the mayor’s office never spoke to her about the new supervisor’s track record as a business owner.

San Francisco government ethics investigators have accused former human rights chief Sheryl Davis of breaking city and state laws that bar conflicts of interest and the acceptance of improper gifts.

A federal judge sentenced Leniyah Butler, who was convicted of voluntary manslaughter for shooting a Congolese immigrant in the Crissy Field parking lot in 2023.

A key legal provision has ensured that San Francisco’s ethics watchdogs can freely punish City Hall officials for flouting the law, even their bosses. But that protection is now up for...

San Francisco Sheriff Paul Miyamoto’s brother-in-law faced criminal charges three years ago after he was allegedly caught growing marijuana inside a county jail, where he worked as a plumber.

The city accused Collective Impact of misappropriating public dollars and bribing a former city official, and had sought to bar it from doing business with the city.

Sgt. Michael Kim’s alleged misconduct was deemed so serious that California may soon bar him from wearing a badge. 

Joey Alexander spent much of his adult life in and out of prison. At 60, he “was just enjoying freedom,” his friend said. He was shot while working in San Francisco.

A former nonprofit executive accused of embezzling more than $100,000 from a San Francisco police-funded charity is suing the shuttered organization, alleging she is owed thousands in unpaid wages.

The café owner is set to enter the race to represent the Castro in San Francisco City Hall, a move that will probably jump-start a heated contest for the District 8 supervisor seat.

The funding will mean a lot for the largely volunteer-run groups operating outside the spotlight in neighborhoods all across San Francisco, caring for parks, trails and other public spaces.

Sheryl Davis, the former head of the city’s Human Rights Commission, set an “unethical tone at the top,” auditors said, siphoning badly needed funding away from needy communities.

San Francisco fielded 34 applications for its police chief job as of the deadline to apply this week. The city’s interim top cop isn’t among them, he told the Chronicle.

Melonie and Melorra Green, the co-directors of the African American Arts and Culture Complex, or AAACC, have stepped down after eight years leading the nonprofit in San Francisco.

Once named by the Chronicle as one of the most influential people in San Francisco, she seems determined to retain her seat in public life after losing her position of authority.

San Francisco’s effort to cut off a nonprofit from city funding for allegedly bribing an ex-city official is threatening the future of the organization’s programs for needy kids and their...

Mayor Daniel Lurie is facing setbacks in his plans to reform the troubled effort his predecessor launched to invest funds in organizations focused on addressing inequities in the Black community.

Newly filed campaign finance records reveal that San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has spent gobs of his own cash running a massive public relations operation outside City Hall.