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All sections · June 2026 · 521 stories

The Ballot Measure That Was Supposed to Help Ended Up Closing Berkeley's Oldest Mental Health Drop-In

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The Berkeley Wellness Center, an arts-focused community space that has served people with serious mental illness since…

PoliticsJune 15, 2026

One Year, 69 Wins, 93 Losses: What the Giants Bought With the Devers Trade

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Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Buster Posey's blockbuster trade for Rafael Devers.

PoliticsJune 15, 2026

The A's Can't Win at Home, So I'll Take the Pirates' Coin Flip for Plus Money

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Let's clear the brush first, because the headline that floated this game onto the wire — Pirates play the Athletics…

SportsJune 15, 2026

Two Oakland Shows This Weekend, Both on Telegraph

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Guttermouth headlines an all-ages five-act punk bill at Crybaby on Saturday; Holy Locust brings acoustic folk-punk to…

EventsJune 14, 2026

Into the Ditch: Volunteers Haul 16,000 Pounds From a Corner of the Lake Merritt Channel the City Can't Reach

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Sixty-three Urban Compassion Project volunteers cleared 16,000 pounds of illegally dumped material from the Lake…

CultureJune 14, 2026

H Mart on Alemany Is Growing by More Than Half — the Former Gym Bay Is Now a Housewares Wing

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H Mart at 3995 Alemany Blvd in SF's Ocean View neighborhood launches a grand-opening celebration June 19 after…

CultureJune 14, 2026

Carl Nolte, Who Covered SF From Potrero Hill to Pier 45, Retires at 92 After 65 Years to the Day

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Carl Nolte, the San Francisco Chronicle's "Native Son" columnist, retired June 13 at age 92 — exactly 65 years after…

CultureJune 14, 2026

New Lun Ting Reopens on Jackson Street, Nearly Three Months After Fatal Crash

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The Chinatown diner known as Pork Chop House held a soft reopening Saturday with a lion dance ceremony.

FoodJune 14, 2026

The Future Was 23-9: The A's Auditioned Las Vegas, and It Melted at 101 Degrees

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For six June days the Athletics played "home" games in Las Vegas — a promotional trailer for the $2 billion future they…

SportsJune 14, 2026

Skip Yosemite This Summer. Pinnacles Is Two and a Half Hours Away.

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California's newest national park sits 2.5 hours from SF with volcanic rock formations, California condors, and roughly…

EventsJune 14, 2026

Stanford Graduates Walk Out on Google's CEO. Project Nimbus Is Why.

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Hundreds of Stanford graduates walked out of commencement as Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage Saturday…

TechJune 14, 2026

Pacifica Ranked Dead Last for Small Business. Local Owners Responded With Lemons.

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WalletHub's 2026 study placed Pacifica at No.

CultureJune 14, 2026

Oliver Tree, Santa Cruz Native and SF State Alum, Killed in Brazil Helicopter Collision

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Oliver Tree, the Santa Cruz-born musician who studied at San Francisco State University and performed at Outside Lands…

PoliticsJune 14, 2026

The Timing Is the Tell: Bay Area Tech's Accountability Arrives on a Delay

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Managed disclosure and strategic philanthropy look like separate behaviors.

TechJune 14, 2026

The Smallest Nation in the World Cup Was Assembled, Not Born

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Curaçao — an island of 158,000, the smallest nation ever to reach a men's World Cup — walked into Houston on Saturday…

SportsJune 14, 2026

An SF Doctor Walked Into the World Cup in a Rainbow Bisht. The Video Already Has 1.1 Million Views.

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SF physician Nasser Mohamed — the only Qatari to have ever publicly come out — made his entrance at Saturday's…

EventsJune 14, 2026

The Converted Bank on the Mission Strip Is Still SF's Last Big Independent Brokerage

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Frank Nolan runs Vanguard Real Estate out of a former Mission bank building — 445 agents, a Wednesday neighborhood…

CultureJune 14, 2026

Genesis 9, Over the Rainbow: What the Giants' Pride Night Really Exposed

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On June 12, four of the five Giants pitchers used in a 5-1 loss to the Cubs either Sharpied Genesis 9 over the rainbow…

SportsJune 14, 2026

Volunteers Now Tend 137 of SF's Street Parks. The City Just Taught Them How.

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SF Public Works held its first-ever Street Parks Summit in April, recognizing a parallel maintenance system of 137…

CultureJune 14, 2026

Burma Superstar's Former GM Opened a Burmese Kitchen on Piedmont Avenue

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Tiyo Shibabaw, who spent roughly a decade as general manager at Burma Superstar, opened Teni East Kitchen on May 5 at…

FoodJune 14, 2026

At Lakeside Park, the Oaks Are Losing Ground

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A Coast Live Oak near the Edoff Bandstand is gone.

CultureJune 14, 2026

SF's All-Electric Renovation Mandate Kicks In July 1 — But Older Homes Face a Catch the City's Numbers Don't Capture

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San Francisco homeowners planning a major gut renovation will soon have to do something else while they're at it: rip…

PoliticsJune 14, 2026

The One Day You Back the Giants: Webb Starts, and That's the Whole Bet

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Two days ago I wrote that the Giants' bullpen was the real story of this team — that Matt Chapman's loud June was a…

SportsJune 14, 2026

The Word for What Santa Clara Did Was "Successfully," With an Asterisk

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On June 13, a venue named for a city 45 miles away hosted the Bay Area's first World Cup match, and by every…

SportsJune 14, 2026