“It was one of the earliest instances of a police raid against the queer community,” Shawn Sprockett, who gives walking tours on San Francisco ... as “bad faith” on the part of SFPD.

Parts of San Francisco have been in a state of emergency this year. The city's drugs and homelessness crisis has divided Democrats - and this week helped bring about the political demise of one of ...

Photo: Rat Receiving Station set up as part of the War on Rats led by the ... In the summer of 1899, a ship sailing from Hong Kong to San Francisco had had two cases of plague on board.

It was built in the 1910s as a meeting hall for Polk Street’s German community; in the 1960s it served as a concert venue (the Grateful Dead played there in 1969); now, it’s part of the campus ...