A South Korean court has sentenced former first lady Kim Keon Hee to 20 months in prison for corruption ahead of the verdict ...

The City of San Francisco has been accused of rewarding corporate landlords with multimillion-dollar contracts despite their repeated mistreatment of tenants, prompting a call for the State to ...

Employees at two luxury San Francisco apartment complexes allegedly accepted hefty bribes to turn a blind eye to a sex ...

It’s last call for San Francisco’s government hooch. A COVID-era program that guzzled $5 million of taxpayer money annually to serve booze to homeless alcoholics will finally shutter this year, San ...

For the last five-plus years, Shepard was an assistant U.S. attorney. She was part of an anticorruption effort that resulted ...

Mission Local produces enterprise reporting on San Francisco's most critical issues: police reform, corruption, public health ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom's war of words and online battles with President Donald Trump takes a global stage in Davos, Switzerland.

For the first time in its history, San Francisco has hired an inspector general to root out waste, fraud and abuse.

Alex Shepard is San Francisco’s first inspector general, tasked with rooting out fraud and abuse across City Hall.

Federal prosecutors are telling a judge they are not hanging their corruption case against recalled Oakland mayor Sheng Thao on a single cooperating witness, but on a thick stack of documentary and ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom is making the roughly 6,000-mile journey this week from the Hollywood Hills to the Swiss ...

San Francisco is planning a renovation that would destroy one of the city's distinguishing features: a fountain that became iconic to the skate scene in the 1980s and '90s.