Thursday was a typical day at Pier 39. Couples strolled with ice cream cones, snack-stand attendants blinked lazily in the gloom, a street magician performed impossible feats, and tourists watched the ...

Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen donated half a million dollars to a group supporting Theo Ellington in the District 10 supervisor race. The $500,000 (opens in new tab) is among the largest single ...

Garbage from a Recology truck was scattered across a Union Square street Wednesday as San Francisco firefighters searched for a person heard yelling from inside the vehicle. A man was removed from the ...

The battle over AI regulation has landed in one of the least likely corners of the country: remote Alaska. The governor’s race in the Last Frontier is attracting hundreds of thousands of dollars in ...

A plan to build a new, billionaire-backed city in rural Solano County has run into a fresh wave of local resistance. This time it’s over a last-minute deal led by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office to ...

It’s a tale as old as time. Legislators pass a law to make it easier to build homes, but nothing gets built because of factors beyond their control. These factors are mostly financial — high interest ...

If you had asked City Hall observers in January 2025, when Mayor Daniel Lurie took office, to guess which board members would be at each other’s throats roughly a year and a half later, they likely ...

Reopening the Upper Great Highway to weekday traffic would cost San Francisco roughly $9.8 million upfront and up to $1.9 million a year afterward, according to an analysis released Monday by the ...

The dusty glass and green facade of 150 Hayes St. still projects the same image it has since 1968, when San Francisco was betting on mid-size office towers to fill out its downtown. But inside, the ...

Is State Sen. Scott Wiener’s AI campaign chatbot racist? Earlier this week, his campaign unveiled ConnieChan.ai (opens in new tab), a chatbot that impersonates rival Supervisor Connie Chan and invites ...

As the sun reflected off the Pacific outside a nondescript two-story home in the Sunset, a line of people formed — far more than typical for a Friday open house on a summer evening. It was an average ...

A celebration of life turned deadly Tuesday when a boat called the Volare, carrying 20 passengers, capsized in the San Francisco Bay off the coast of Alcatraz. Owner John Boisa was at the helm when ...