Express Desk Reporter

Max Harrison-Caldwell

In the midst of a crisis, California’s last drug incineration plant is set to close

News

Nobody knows what law enforcement agencies will do with the evidence they seize once the facility shuts down. 


News Reporter

David Sjostedt

Activist behind ‘Downtown is for drug users’ campaign dies of overdose

Nova Schultz hung posters with the slogan around downtown and formed a coalition of like-minded activists. They died Oct. 30.

Worker at city-funded San Francisco sober house fatally overdosed on the job

A staffer at the nonprofit HealthRight 360 was found dead in his office last year, prompting a call for new policies about how overdose deaths are reported.

Politics Reporter

Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

Han Li

DA Brooke Jenkins breaks silence on rumored run for higher office

Politics

San Francisco’s top prosecutor joined The Standard and gave hints on her next political move.

Director of Audio

Sophie Bearman

Recovering heroin addict says San Francisco is failing its drug users

Thomas Wolf knows the Tenderloin well. He spent six months sleeping on its streets in 2018.

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In the midst of a crisis, California’s last drug incineration plant is set to close

Activist behind ‘Downtown is for drug users’ campaign dies of overdose

Worker at city-funded San Francisco sober house fatally overdosed on the job

DA Brooke Jenkins breaks silence on rumored run for higher office

Recovering heroin addict says San Francisco is failing its drug users