Vince Bielski

Will Aaron Judge join the SF Giants?

Sports

The buzz in baseball says the San Francisco Giants will make a strong play for American League home run king Aaron Judge. But it’s all rumor at this point. 

Despite housing crisis, Bay Area voters are split on a big build-out of homes, poll shows

News

Politics

White homeowners over the age of 50 make up the core of the resistance to a significant build-out of housing in the Bay Area.

‘Overwhelmed with fentanyl’: Why the deadly opioid is pouring into San Francisco from Mexico

The drug that accounted for most of the 108,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. last year is easier to make and more profitable than heroin.

Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

CalMatters

Hello, governor: Newsom faces big decisions as legislators pass new laws on hot-button issues

Five takeaways from the end of the legislative session, and how a handful of signatures from Gov. Newsom could impact San Francisco’s future.

CARE Courts—the controversial plan to compel people into drug, mental health treatment—set to become law

Gov. Gavin Newsom is poised to sign the sweeping CARE Court bill to address the state’s mounting homelessness and mental health crisis by allowing judges to order residents deemed unable to make medical decisions for themselves into treatment. The Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment (CARE) Act, which the state legislature passed overwhelmingly Wednesday, targets people…