San Francisco police made an arrest Thursday morning in connection with the April 4 fatal... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Oakland police say they won't pursue use of 'dystopian' armed robots

Facing pushback, the Oakland Police Department this week said it would no longer seek... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Sacheen Littlefeather was a Native icon. Her sisters say she was an ethnic fraud

You might not know her name, but you've probably seen the video that made her famous. In 1973, actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather took the stage at the Oscars dressed in a beaded buckskin dress in place of Marlon Brando, after he was awarded Best Actor for his role as Vit … | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

San Francisco to spend $1.7M on single public toilet

Noe Valley neighbors have asked the city for a public bathroom in their town square for... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Oracle lays off 200 employees, adds to Bay Area's wave of job cuts

The tech giant laid off workers in its former headquarters in Redwood City and nearby... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

BART Station's severe rat problem may have a single culprit: Birdseed Lady

Glen Park's pest problem, which has become a public health hazard and caused thousands of... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

S.F. plans to rezone the city to allow the production of just 34,000 new homes

The plan comes as part of the city’s latest draft of its housing element, a contract... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

California companies must include salary ranges in job postings under new law

California employers will have to include a pay scale in their job postings under a new... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

S.F. sued over homeless camp sweeps: city charged with criminalizing unsheltered

The lawsuit alleges San Francisco and Mayor London Breed engage in mass criminalization of... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Poop and pee fueled the algae bloom in San Francisco Bay

Treated sewage from the region’s 8 million residents is a key contributor to the San... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Apple to mandate three days in a week in the office by Labor Day

The Cupertino tech giant will require its corporate employees to return to the office at... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

California’s cliffs are crumbling into the sea. Map of spots eroding the fastest

Counties in California’s far north are seeing coastal cliffs erode faster than... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

S.F. developer hits brick wall in bid to turn Tenderloin lot into housing

The owner of a little, vacant lot in the Tenderloin wants to turn it into 100% affordable... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

New York is roaring back from the worst of the pandemic.Why isn’t San Francisco?

There’s always been a disparity between New York and San Francisco, but the two coastal... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Walgreens can be liable for role in SF opioid crisis, judge rules

The Walgreens pharmacy chain can be held responsible for much of the opioid epidemic in... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Gov. Newsom launches review of San Francisco’s housing approval process

The California Department of Housing and Community Development said Tuesday that it would... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

45 SF traffic cops issue just 10 citations combined a day

Dangerous driving in San Francisco is prevalent, but police issue just 10 traffic... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Fire in Siskiyou: Parts under evacuation as blaze explodes to more than 30k acre

A wildfire burning northwest in far Northern California displayed extreme fire behavior... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Richer people left San Francisco in the pandemic

The average income of people who moved out of San Francisco surged during the early part... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

S.F. reclaims top spot as Earth’s most expensive city to build in

S.F. reclaimed the title it previously held in 2019 from Tokyo. | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

SF Chronicle: Chesa Boudin wasn’t the problem, Walgreens caused the drug crisis

In recent years, Walgreens has positioned itself as a victim of rampant crime. But an... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Is this the future of downtown San Francisco?

A business group has come up with a plan to revitalize the area with street closings and outdoor gathering spaces. Here’s what it would look like | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

My aging mom fell. If I weren’t a doctor, system wouldn’t have helped her up

Every encounter with our medical system feels like it’s a fight for our lives. | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

It’s official: Bay Area home values are finally going down

As mortgage rates climb and stock prices founder, housing markets in the Bay Area and... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Tenderloin drug crackdown: Here’s what D.A. Brooke Jenkins plans to do

San Francisco’s new district attorney reiterated her promise to crack down on the... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Salesforce gives up another big chunk of office space

Salesforce is cutting its San Francisco office space for the third time during the... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Risk of getting Covid outside: New variants may have changed the answer

Summer in the Bay Area means outdoor parties, weddings, and music festivals, where people... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

UCSF’s Bob Wachter says Covid variant BA.5 is ‘a different beast’

The new BA.5 strain of the COVID-causing virus is more infectious and better able to... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

A few unions are hijacking California environmental law

So long as unions continue to wield the specter of environmental harm alongside their... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Late Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

Apple co-founder and San Francisco native Steve Jobs will be posthumously awarded the... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Lowell HS admissions will return to merit-based system after school board vote

S.F. school board voted Wednesday night not to extend the Lowell High School lottery... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Chesa Boudin ousted as San Francisco district attorney in historic recall

The election, closely-watched across the nation, came after months of intense debate over... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

San Francisco Ousts Progressive DA Chesa Boudin

It’s election day in California and the San Francisco Bay Area. For the statewide... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Pacific Crest Trail may become 'all but impossible' to hike due to climate chang

Climate change is pummeling the Pacific Crest Trail in California, with everything from... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Cruise gets state permit to offer paid driverless taxi rides in San Francisco

Cruise’s driverless vehicles would not be allowed to exceed 30 miles per hour or... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Jonathan Waters, Chez Panisse wine director for 32 yrs, dies after bicycle crash

Jonathan Waters brought Californian wines to the forefront at a time when most Americans... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

California’s right-to-repair movement tries to make it easier to fix electronics

California’s failed Right to Repair bill wasn’t just about making it easier to fix... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

California’s drought has caused entire towns to sink nearly a foot in one year

Land subsidence caused by groundwater pumping is a century-old issue in California. But... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

S.F. population fell 6.3%, most in nation, to lowest level since 2010

San Francisco saw by far the biggest percentage drop in population among major U.S.... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

San Francisco is the most childless major city in the U.S.

Which San Francisco neighborhoods have the fewest kids? | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Why do some people never get Covid while others get it several times?

Early research shows that some people, despite repeated exposure, don’t seem to catch... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Gov. Newsom says ‘NIMBYism is destroying’ California

Gov. Gavin Newsom defended his administration’s work on housing and homelessness during... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

A new tactic in the Bay Area's housing crisis

A financial tool long popular with universities and charities is gaining traction with... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

California wants 100% renewable power. It just hit that milestone – briefly

On Saturday, for the first time ever, the state’s renewable power production matched... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

A third of S.F. workers are back at their desks, beating out NYC and San Jose

San Francisco’s office occupancy rate continued its spring recovery, rising above New... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

61% of homes in San Jose metro area sold for above $1M

Statewide, California has four of the top five large metro areas with the most $1 million... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

Broken Homes

Thousands of people have been left to languish and at times die in hotel rooms overseen by a San Francisco agency that reports to Mayor London Breed. With little oversight or support, these so-called SRO hotels have descended into a pattern of chaos, crime and death — and the cit … | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 1 year ago

California’s radical plan to defend homes from sea level rise: move them

California is beginning to adopt a bold and controversial proposal to protect its coasts... | Continue reading


@sfchronicle.com | 2 years ago