News Reporter

David Sjostedt

A strategy developed during the AIDS crisis has fallen out of favor in the fentanyl epidemic. Its advocates say people will die. 

U.S. officials decided to study the issue after seeing reports from California suggesting that smoking fentanyl was becoming more common.

A San Francisco man with a pedophile conviction camped across the street from a school with signs offering free fentanyl was arrested Friday.

The fact that it’s expanding, rather than shuttering, makes it an anomaly in a retail stretch pockmarked by vacancies. 

The U.S. president left the Bay Area Friday after a week of meeting with world leaders for the international APEC summit in San Francisco. 