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The Trump administration is ratcheting up its feud with California. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday sent a notice that San Francisco is violating the federal Clean Water Act.

San Francisco’s renowned waterfront hosts joggers, admiring tourists and towering condos with impressive views. It could also become the site of a new homeless shelter for up to 200 people.

The Medical Examiner of San Francisco and the San Francisco Police Department have opened a suspicious death investigation into Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who died Friday night at the age of 59, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit confirmed.

Though the official count is in the hundreds, it’s been estimated that well over a thousand people in San Francisco go to sleep in their vehicles every night, parked on city streets. The most visible of these people are the ones now at the center of a fiery debate: the residents of an estimated 313 RVs, many of them decades...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed has written a letter asking for outgoing Gov. Jerry Brown’s help to free her brother, who is not eligible for parole for another 15 years in a notorious homicide case.

San Francisco paid a public relations firm hundreds of thousands of dollars for research that claims the city is near spotless, according to government documents obtained by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit. The high rating appears to contradict San Francisco’s own 311 complaint records, which reflect a continued spike in complaints concerning trash, used needles, and human feces scattered...

It has a funny name, but it’s targeting a serious problem. San Francisco is rolling out the “Poop Patrol.”

San Francisco Mayor London Breed, in her first one-on-one interview since taking office, said homeless advocacy groups that receive funding from the city need to better educate the homeless to “clean up after themselves.” Bigad Shaban from NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit reports.

San Francisco Mayor London Breed believes homeless advocacy groups that receive funding from the city need to better educate the homeless to “clean up after themselves.”

A procession took late San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee from a Daly City funeral home to City Hall early Friday. Lee will lie in state at the City Hall rotunda from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, his office announced. He was 65 years old.

After more than 8,000 people flocked to Golden Gate Park on Wednesday, or 4/20, as the San Francisco’s weed-loving community call it, 11 tons of trash littered Hippie Hill. Shasta soda bottles, beer cans, and of course, and lots and lots of butts.

Thousands flocked to Golden Gate Park on Wednesday, or 4/20, as the San Francisco’s weed-loving community call it, to celebrate being outside on the grass and the sweet smells (and effects) of cannabis.