Allergies are worse than ever in the Bay Area. Why? (sfstandard.com)
San Francisco parking: Cone wars cause neighborhood disputes (sfstandard.com)
Millions over budget, California Academy of Sciences weighs layoffs (sfstandard.com)
Calif. lawmaker wants to ban firms from owning over 1,000 homes (sfstandard.com)
NIMBYs and YIMBYs team up on new housing bill (sfstandard.com)
Assemblymember Matt Haney has introduced AB 3068, a bill intended to streamline the process for getting historic building converted into housing. | Source: Estefany Gonzalez/The Standard
San Francisco wants to turn a chunk of downtown into the city’s Bourbon Street (sfstandard.com)
San Francisco restaurants dread ‘disturbing’ law banning service fees (sfstandard.com)
New front in the bike lane wars: City College’s pitched battle to save 29 parking spots (sfstandard.com)
The SFMTA has heard the anguished cries of bike lane opponents. They aim to build it anyway.
Opinion | Opening a small business in San Francisco is still a nightmare. Ask me how I know (sfstandard.com)
San Francisco sees surge in 'shiesty' mask popularity (sfstandard.com)
How the ‘shiesty’ ski mask became the San Francisco accessory of choice
Traffic nightmare in Oakland ends as protesters leave freeway (sfstandard.com)
Downtown First Thursdays to bring open-air party to SF’s Second Street corridor (sfstandard.com)
Tiny Oakland store front laundered big cash for cartels, feds say (sfstandard.com)
Sorry, boss, a new law says I can’t answer your email (sfstandard.com)
Newsom to install 500 surveillance cameras in Oakland (sfstandard.com)
What a new fee structure might mean for your monthly PG&E bill (sfstandard.com)
420 Festival at Golden Gate Park is Cancelled (sfstandard.com)
While the sponsored event is canceled, you can’t keep thousands of stoners away from Hippy Hill.
Policyholders left scrambling as state's largest home insurer retreats (sfstandard.com)
This week, with little forewarning, more than 70,000 State Farm policyholders in California were unceremoniously informed that their insurance policies would not be renewed.
San Francisco woman gets 2 years in prison for Walgreens thefts (sfstandard.com)
A San Francisco woman was sentenced to two years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to what prosecutors described as a series of “snatch-and-grab thefts” at Walgreens and other stores.
Enraging legal vendors, SF will close Civic Center’s flea market (sfstandard.com)
The next victim of San Francisco budget cuts: long-running flea markets
'Extremely dangerous' Tahoe storm to dump 12 feet of snow. Avoid travel (sfstandard.com)
Macy’s to close historic Union Square store (sfstandard.com)
San Francisco mayor blames harm reduction for drug crisis (sfstandard.com)
Another politician campaigning over the bodies of the dead.