Senior Politics Reporter

Josh Koehn

Kimberly Ellis, head of the Department on the Status of Women, overruled staff to push excess funds to a friendly political group, a source said. 

A video shared with The Standard shows ICE agents handcuffing a young man inside the courthouse.

Aaron Peskin’s political maneuver is dividing pro-housing advocates and jeopardizing San Francisco’s housing future, developer Cyrus Sanandaji argues

A ballot measure would expand the mayor’s power to choose department heads, among other changes to City Hall. 

The mayor said she lost faith in the chief’s leadership because of the way he handled officer discipline. 