Westfield gives up San Francisco Centre, latest business to pull back …

Westfield is just the latest high-profile business to abandon the city. According to a tally from the San Francisco Standard, twenty retailers near San Francisco’s Union Square have closed their …

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/12/business/westfield-giving-up-sf-mall/index.html

May was worst month for fentanyl deaths in San Francisco since 2020 …

While month-to-month data on fatal fentanyl overdoses in San Francisco was not available before 2020, the city recorded 239 such deaths in 2019, an average of fewer than 20 per month.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-16/authorities-seized-4-2-kilos-of-fentanyl-near-the-tenderloin-thats-enough-to-theoretically-kill-millions

San Francisco fentanyl seized: Officials capture more than 9 pounds

0:43. California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced this week the California Highway Patrol seized enough fentanyl in San Francisco during the past six weeks to kill more than 2 million people, or nearly …

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/16/san-francisco-fentanyl-seized/70328959007/

California seizes enough fentanyl in San Francisco to kill city’s …

California law enforcement officials have seized enough fentanyl, in San Francisco alone, to cause the deadly overdoses of more than 2 million people since the beginning of May.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/california-fentanyl-overdose-newsom-supervised-drug-use-san-francisco

California’s Climate Extremes of Floods and Drought Are Getting Worse …

June 12, 2023. Illustration by Jacqueline Tam. In the early 2010s, California endured a very severe drought that killed millions of trees and fueled horrific wildfires. That was followed by a …

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/12/us/california-climate-extremes.html

California’s dirtiest beaches ranked in Heal the Bay’s report card …

Still, of California’s more than 400 beaches, 95% received top marks for water quality from April to October 2022, covering the state’s most popular window for beach recreation, according to …

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-14/the-dirtiest-and-cleanest-beaches-across-california

San Francisco’s downtown just entered a new phase of its …

The Westfield mall used to be the beating retail heart of downtown San Francisco. Westfield stopped paying the mortgage on the shopping mall, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Foot traffic has plunged, and the city is so expensive that some can’t afford to live there anymore. When a city becomes …

https://news.yahoo.com/san-franciscos-downtown-just-entered-233448815.html

Dream of reparations hits political reality in California

06/06/2023 06:21 PM EDT. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Democrats three years ago set out to confront more than a century of discrimination toward Black residents with a push for reparations …

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/06/reparations-push-stalls-california-00100331

California City, California – Wikipedia

California City is a city located in northern Antelope Valley in Kern County, California, United States. It is 100 miles (160 km) north of the city of Los Angeles, and the population was 14,973 at the 2020 census. Covering 203.63 square miles (527.4 km 2 ), California City has the third-largest land area of any city in the state of California …

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_City,_California

Home foreclosures are rising nationwide, with Florida, California and …

States with the most foreclosure starts in May included Florida, where 2,901 foreclosures got underway, followed by California, with 2,451 foreclosures started, and Texas, where 2,286 properties …

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/home-foreclosures-rising-in-us-where-which-states-rcna88394