Mission Local

Founded in 2008, Mission Local has been dedicated to covering the vibrant Mission District, sharing stories about everything from local tacos and technology to crime, culture, murals, and MUNI. We aim to capture the essence of this historic and beloved neighborhood as it evolves. Initially launched as a project by UC Berkeley's Journalism School, we became an independent entity in 2014. Our goal is to serve as a beacon of local, self-sustaining, and fiercely independent journalism. We strive to showcase the Mission's rich diversity and its captivating, sometimes conflicting, nature. Our commitment is to continue telling its many stories for many years ahead.

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'Run, Paul, Run'? Mayor's office says it won't happen with interim SFPD chief Paul Yep.

2 days ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Eskenazi

One of the many legacies of Mayor Ed Lee is that, after even the most apparently straightforward statement, San Francisco journalists are forced to ask elected officials, “Okay, for real?” That’s because after then-mayor Gavin Newsom decamped for Sacramento, the Board of Supervisors in 2011 elevated Ed Lee to be the ostensible caretaker mayor following his unambiguous, explicit pledge that he would not run in the 2012 mayor’s race. Lee ran in the 2012 mayor’s race. He won.
As S.F. pushes to get addicts to services, DOGE cuts their funding

5 days ago | missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan

People who are addicted to fentanyl, says Dorothy Dean, “don’t listen to nobody.” For that reason, Dean is proud of every person she has talked into seeking medical help. But in late March, Vanguard Lab, an art and activist space on Sixth Street, where Dean did harm reduction work, found out that it was caught up in federal cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency. Its $250,000 federal grant was cut off abruptly. Vanguard Lab closed its doors a few weeks later.
SFPD arrests suspect for daylight killing of man in Mission District home

6 days ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Rivano Barros

The San Francisco Police Department on Thursday said officers arrested a man suspected of shooting and killing a 19-year-old in a Mission District home last Friday. The suspect, 21-year-old Trayvon Williams, was arrested in Novato on Wednesday by officers from the SFPD, the Novato police department, and the Marin County SWAT team, according to the SFPD. He was taken into custody and booked into San Francisco jail on May 7 at 11:44 p.m., according to jail records.
Saturday night in the Mission

6 days ago | missionlocal.org | Robert Weiner

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Mayor Lurie asked every dept. to make cuts. The DA wants more money.

6 days ago | missionlocal.org | Margaret Kadifa

In the face of San Francisco’s $818 million budget shortfall and a directive from Mayor Daniel Lurie for all department heads to devise 15 percent cuts to their budgets, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said absolutely not. In a hearing Wednesday at the Board of Supervisors Budget Committee, Jenkins asked for a $2.9 million increase in her department’s budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. That’s about a 3 percent raise.
Chief Bill Scott took on the difficult task of transforming a beleaguered SFPD. Did he deliver?

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan

Chief Bill Scott took over the San Francisco Police Department more than eight years ago amid chaos and upheaval: a series of fatal police shootings, a hunger strike to oust the former chief, and federal government intervention to reform the department’s issues. Today, as upheaval continues in San Francisco — a shift back toward more law-and-order policing, a new mayor at the helm — Scott announced on Wednesday he will be leaving in June.
Mayor Lurie gets an A in vibes, San Francisco City Hall veterans say

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | Margaret Kadifa

Just over 100 days into his term, Mayor Daniel Lurie has done a few things right: schmoozing the Board of Supervisors, trying to clean up San Francisco’s streets and engaging in much-needed boosterism of a city with an unsavory reputation, said two veteran City Hall politicos speaking with Mission Local at an event on Thursday.
SF's strange and terrible 'amnesty' plan for Building Dept. corruption victims

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | Joe Eskenazi

A long time ago, an eventual colleague of mine at the Hearst-era San Francisco Examiner — who could be described as dumb as a box of hammers, but this would necessitate discussing the relative intellects of varying types of hammers — had a problem at work. In this bygone era, information still traveled into newsrooms via tickertape. And this newspaperman simply couldn’t keep up with the flow of near-constant updates. So, he devised a solution: He turned off the newsroom tickertape machine.
S.F. supervisors begrudgingly greenlight big boost to SFPD overtime

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | H.R. Smith |Heather Smith

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors today voted 9-2 to approve the police department’s request for $61 million in additional overtime funding for this year, but also chastised the department for coming to the board, as it has for years now, with a hefty, unexpected bill. “I’m not proud of this vote,” said District 6 Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who was appointed to his position directly from the role as head of public relations at the police department.
S.F. police chase sends suspects fleeing into startled neighbors’ backyards

1 week ago | missionlocal.org | Eleni Balakrishnan

A police chase on San Jose Avenue this afternoon sent two suspects bailing out of a vehicle and fleeing into the backyards of the Fairmount area of Glen Park, according to residents and police. Witnesses saw dozens of police, including officers from Daly City and a helicopter from the California Highway patrol swarming the area with rifles drawn after 5 p.m., going door to door seeking two suspects.