SAN FRANCISCO -- They hide in weeds along hiking trails and in playground grass. They wash into rivers and float downstream to land on beaches. They pepper baseball dugouts, sidewalks and streets.

A recent NBC Bay Area investigation, which revealed an alarming amount of trash, drug needles and feces scattered across San Francisco, has gone viral. The findings, which center around a 153 ...

The Mayor of San Francisco announced Monday the hiring of 10 workers who will clean up needles littering the streets. ... "The trash, our homeless, the needles, the drug abuse on our streets, ...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city's drug overdose crisis requires a bolder approach to getting illicit drug users off the streets and into treatment.

Residents who live near San Francisco’s Potrero Avenue are expressing frustration as homelessness and drug activity worsen. Many describe the situation as a "whack-a-mole" problem, with ...

Since 2020, about 2,300 people have died from drug overdoses in the city, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The push comes as the city’s Board of Supervisors works to pass a budget for next ...

But now the storied agency is patrolling the streets of San Francisco’s Tenderloin as part of a multiagency effort to crack down on rampant drug dealing that’s decimating the 50-square-block area.

For some, the drug-delivery supply vans were the breaking point. In 2024, an incredulous German news crew and I watched as a San Francisco AIDS Foundation team set up tables behind the Castro-area ...

San Francisco ending policy of freely handing out paraphernalia to drug users 04:10. San Francisco Mayor Daniel ... needles. San Francisco has long ... there is no drug use on the streets.