People want to know about San Francisco—and they’re turning to Silicon Valley for answers. Not actually to the Valley itself, but rather to its technology via tools like Google searches, many of which ...

Update: The Appropriations Committee decided Thursday not to leave SB 50 in suspense forever, but also that it won’t come up for a vote until January of 2020. In a statement after the hearing, Wiener ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gates at the West Portal station are blocked with caution tape following the temporary closure of stations. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images This week, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation ...

Homelessness across the nine Bay Area counties is getting worse not only due to a dearth of development, but because most counties neglect affordable housing while allowing NIMBY interests to scare ...

The AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, is trying to fight State Sen. Scott Wiener’s transit-development legislation Senate Bill 50 with a campaign that compares his ...

A staple of Victorian architecture, the bay window—an often-cantilevered series of windows that form an alcove—deserves far better than its common, uninspired fate as a home for an oversize flatscreen ...

Proposition E is on its way to a spacious margin of victory. After the Super Tuesday election, a plan to cap construction on new office space in San Francisco unless the city builds more affordable ...

The good times can’t last forever: New analysis suggests that the brief and oh-so tantalizing dip in SF’s median home prices seen earlier this year has evaporated. In April, sources like the ...