Christopher Columbus never stepped foot on what is today the United States. He never visited California or sailed the Pacific Ocean. And he didn’t discover America in 1492. But that hasn’t ...

On Thursday, a handful of skaters climbed Twin Peaks — the second-highest hill in S.F., with a curvy street perfect for skating — and plunged, from its apex, down Market Street and then onward ...

Every day at sundown I head to South Park, my neighborhood park, and sit in the spot where Cate Blanchett had a mental breakdown in Blue Jasmine. It’s fitting because, like Cate’s character ...

While San Francisco is beloved for its Victorian pageantry, climbing skyscrapers, and that orange hunk of metal in the Bay, the city’s many staircases—installed to get you from point A to ...

The crowd has cleared out—most people are already onboard—but a few stragglers rush to the boat. The ferry idles for a few more minutes before pulling away. It’s sunny and warm, the kind of ...

San Francisco joined the rest of the Bay Area Tuesday in lengthening its shelter-in-place order, which pushed the citywide shutdown until at least May 3. The revamped order also extended the scope ...

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 ...

With San Francisco, including most of the country, under a broad shelter-in-place order and the number of detected COVID-19 infections on the rise, people have turned to Google to answer questions ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Sausalito houseboat that once belonged to Shel Silverstein, the late author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, made headlines when it hit the market in 2017. Four years and one ...

The caricature of a NIMBY is someone with a screw-you-I’ve-got-mine attitude, either a wealthy, white homeowner who thinks renters lower property values or a nostalgic progressive opposed to ...