The method used to declare areas of the polluted former Navy shipyard at Hunters Point, now occupied by housing, free of harmful radioactive material was sound, according to results of an expert panel ...

In her 1937 book Everybody’s Autobiography, Gertrude Stein wrote: “What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about if I like or anything if I ...

With rents and housing prices on the rise, many Californians have trouble seeing the glass as half full. “A lot of people felt that once we all admitted what the problem was, once our leaders stated ...

San Francisco-based Assemblymember David Chiu wants to tax often-vacant second homes and vacation homes in California to help pay for the cost of homelessness—and the mayors of the Bay Area’s three ...

Fear of spreading the potentially deadly COVID-19 contagion (colloquially called the “coronavirus”) is already hurting San Francisco businesses and social gatherings, and this week San Francisco ...

An aerial view from a drone shows an empty Interstate 280 in San Francisco on March 26. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images At a press conference, Mayor London Breed announced extended ...

The site of the city’s homeless navigation center for teenagers and other young people in January. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As San Francisco grapples with how to protect thousands of ...

After Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) left hundreds of thousands of Bay Area residents in the dark last year, will the troubled utility company do it again? The answer is yes, according to a ...

Kirkham in the Sunset District will be one of a dozen streets closed to through traffic. Photo by Brock Keeling In an effort to give pedestrians a wider buffer of space while outside during shelter-in ...

In light of social-distancing orders, and in preparation for Memorial Day weekend, the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department placed social-distancing circles, measuring roughly six feet in ...

In the 1957 B-movie The Amazing Colossal Man, an explosion causes a once-ordinary guy to grow to ten times his normal size and wreak havoc on a city—an apt metaphor for the San Francisco housing ...

In the midst of the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak in the Bay Area, San Francisco’s home sales inventory have nearly vanished. In the weeks since Bay Area counties began following shelter-in-place orders, ...