Mission Local

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

There are very few things these days that can’t be purchased on Craigslist. For sale in the Bay Area right now: a gently used one-hour parking sign, the jaw bone of a juvenile bull shark, a 2009 Beneteau 49 sailboat for the low price of $209,000 “ON Y VA!” the listing declares). And, for one Bernal Heights resident, goats. For months, Joe Corcoran had been staring down the overgrown yard in the back of the building on Cortland Street that serves as his barber shop before inspiration struck.

Supervisor Jackie Fielder has sent a second letter of inquiry to the San Francisco Police Department, asking for more information on its choice to deploy officers in riot gear to arrest several individuals at Trans March and Stud Alley on June 26 and 27. Fielder is requesting more details about the types of officers deployed to both events, and whether those officers were on overtime or regular hours.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

Isabel Fondevila is the Roxie Theater’s programming director. A native of the Basque country in northern Spain, she’s been working at the Mission District movie theater since 2013. Fondevila sat down with Mission Local to talk about movies, the Mission and Roxie’s history. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Mission Llcal: What does film mean to you? Isabel Fondevila: Well, film is a lot of things. It’s an art form. It’s a labor of love. In general, it takes a village to make a movie.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

A former San Francisco sheriff’s deputy was arrested Wednesday and charged with two counts of felony sexual assault for an alleged incident involving a transgender woman at a San Francisco county jail in September. Police officers placed 34-year-old Damon Jones under arrest for the alleged sexual assault, which purportedly took place on Sept. 11, 2025 at San Francisco’s County Jail No. 2. Mission Local reported on the alleged incident and Jones’ firing in October 2025.

Fifteen billionaires have put a total of $336 million into California and national politics so far this year, a new report released this week shows. More than half of them are from the San Francisco Bay Area, where organizers on Thursday rallied at the home of the second-biggest individual political spender on state elections, Ripple co-founder and angel investor Chris Larsen, to announce the report’s findings.

When a San Francisco neighborhood has a Mission Local reporter, it means someone is there. We're following new housing projects proposed on your block, keeping tabs on what your district supervisor is up to at City Hall, and letting you know when longtime businesses close (and new ones open). When big news breaks, we already know the context. Most neighborhoods don't have that. Yours could. That's what Mission Local is building.

Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation recently resubmitted its preliminary project permits for 1234 Great Highway in the Sunset. But don’t get too excited: Jacob Goldstein, the project manager, wrote that the project remains “on hiatus.” The proposed development would transform the parcel of land between Great Highway and Playa Street, currently a Motel 6, into two eight-story apartment buildings for low-income seniors.