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The FY2027 state budget, the latest in 16 years, commits $4.5 billion to child care and pre-K on a path to universal child care, sends $1 billion in energy rebate checks and adds a surcharge on luxury New York City second homes. Lawmakers finished passing it late on 27 May, nearly two months after the 1 April deadline.

Mayor Daniel Lurie sent the supervisors a two-year $16.9 billion budget for FY2026-27 and 2027-28 that closes a $642 million deficit, eliminates 550 positions and spends reserves to keep residents on Medi-Cal and CalFresh as federal cuts land.

City voters turned down an $8,000-a-year tax on second homes left vacant more than half the year, 53.2% to 46.8%, the latest in a run of failed San Diego tax measures.

Proposition D, a labor-backed rise in San Francisco's tax on companies whose top executives earn 100 times their workers, projected at about $300 million a year, failed 52.8% to 47.2%; its business-backed rival, Measure C, lost 66% to 34%.

Appointed District 4 Supervisor Alan Wong won the special election to finish Joel Engardio's term, beating Natalie Gee 64.4% to 35.6% in the fourth round of ranked-choice voting.

The council unanimously approved a budget closing a $118 million structural deficit, restoring some library and recreation-center hours and most arts funding while keeping the Flock license-plate reader contract.

After a near-rejection, protests and arrests, councillors approved the $4.9 billion operating budget with $11.8 million of amendments, alongside a $4.4 billion five-year capital plan.

By 7 votes to 1 the Rent Guidelines Board set 0% increases for one- and two-year leases on rent-stabilized apartments starting between 1 October 2026 and 30 September 2027. It fulfils Mayor Mamdani's campaign pledge and is the first freeze ever for two-year leases.

Led by Dykes on Bikes, the 56th SF Pride Parade filled Market Street from Beale Street to Civic Center on 28 June, with organisers expecting more than a million people over the weekend.

The City Council approved Mayor Mamdani's first budget on 30 June, the largest expense budget in Council history, adding $350 million to reserves and $300 million over two years for a new rental-assistance program. It was agreed with Speaker Julie Menin the same day.

The regional transit district certified an estimated 235,503 valid signatures, above the 205,831 needed, putting a 14-year sales tax for BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit (1 cent in San Francisco, half a cent in four other counties) before voters on 3 November.

Some 60 tall ships from more than 20 countries, led by USS Constitution, paraded into Boston Harbor for America's 250th, opening five days of free ship tours and fireworks.

The 2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count found 45,194 people homeless in the City of Los Angeles, up 3.4%, and about 73,000 countywide, up 1.2%, driven by a 7.9% rise in unsheltered homelessness in the city.

Passed unanimously by the Board of Supervisors for the first time in six years, the $16.9 billion budget for FY2026-27 and 2027-28 closes a $642 million deficit and cuts the city's structural gap by about $300 million.

About 2,000 two-year-olds in four boroughs started free, full-day 2-K care on the first day of school, funded by an initial $73 million from the state. Mayor Mamdani plans 12,000 seats next year and a universal program after that.

Santa Barbara County's Board of Supervisors voted to send the Senate a letter opposing the House's Hunt Amendment, which would let the Defense Secretary take easements, including by condemnation, along Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline System.

America's largest military air show returns to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego for three free days, 25-27 September 2026, headlined by the US Navy Blue Angels and themed for the nation's 250th anniversary.

New York Comic Con held its twentieth-anniversary edition at the Javits Center on October 8–11, 2026. The event has concluded; the operator now promotes its 2027 return.

The Navy's Blue Angels headline three afternoons of flying over the bay between the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz, a year after the federal shutdown kept them away.

Los Angeles voters decide six charter amendments from the city's charter reform process, including a two-year budget and a parks funding guarantee, plus a half-cent sales tax for the Fire Department and a transfer-tax break for January 2025 fire victims.

Voters in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties decide a 14-year sales tax (1 cent in San Francisco, half a cent elsewhere) for BART, Muni, Caltrain and AC Transit; BART and Muni have drawn up station closures and route cuts if it fails.

Voters decide whether to add an independent ethics commission, budget analyst and program auditor to the county charter, and let supervisors serve three terms instead of two.

San Francisco's November 3 ballot carries ten lettered city measures, from Mayor Lurie's executive-branch and contracting initiatives to a public bank, a Muni parcel tax and cars on the Great Highway, plus supervisor races in Districts 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10.

A citizen initiative would lift the countywide sales tax from 7.75% to 8.25% for Tijuana River sewage fixes, wildfire and public safety, and health care, food aid and child care hit by federal cuts.

Macy's 100th Thanksgiving Day Parade steps off at 8:30 a.m. on Thursday 26 November 2026 with a record 100 inflatables, including a new Sorcerer's Apprentice Mickey balloon and Underdog's first flight since 1984.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is lit in a televised ceremony on the Wednesday after Thanksgiving, expected on 2 December 2026, opening the holiday season in Midtown.

At 11:59 p.m. on 31 December 2026 the Constellation Ball, 12.5 feet wide and covered in 5,280 Waterford crystals, makes its 60-second descent atop One Times Square to welcome 2027.

A one-way cable car ride goes from $9 to $12 and a new $18 Cable Car Plus pass gives a day of unlimited Muni travel for one adult and up to two youth; the same month Muni ends its 15-cent Clipper discount, making the adult fare $3.

The night-time parade, first held in 1851 and the biggest Lunar New Year parade outside Asia, steps off from 2nd and Market at 5:15 p.m. on February 20, 2027, ending with a 268-foot Golden Dragon.

San Francisco Pride returns June 26-27, 2027 for its 57th annual celebration at Civic Center and parade down Market Street, one of the largest LGBTQ+ gatherings in the world.

The standard 95-gallon trash bundle drops by about $16 to $38.75 a month under the trash-fee settlement, at the cost of the promised weekly recycling and bulky-item pickup.

The Congestion Relief Zone's peak toll for cars with E-ZPass rises from $9 to $12 ($3 overnight) as the MTA's phase-in moves to 80% of the originally approved rates, where it stays through 2030.