Tech titans declaring Silicon Valley “over” and threatening to pack up their Duplo blocks and leave is nothing new. But Elon Musk’s recent anti-California proclamations, spurred by the ...

Aristotle said that the best cities are composed mostly of middle-class people, but what exactly does a term like “middle class” mean in the Bay Area today? According to the personal finance ...

Last week, 24/7 Wall Street published a report estimating the cost of living in major American cities relative to local incomes. To the surprise of few, the report ranked San Francisco and parts ...

Oakland housing activists Moms 4 Housing, who made national news by taking over a vacant West Oakland house in November, frequently cite a statistic alleging that there are four empty homes in ...

Tetra Tech, the engineering firm paid more than $250 million by the U.S. Navy to remove radioactive contamination from San Francisco’s Hunters Point has so far escaped any serious punishment ...

Ask anyone to describe what makes San Francisco special and Victorian architecture would land near the top of the list, somewhere between sourdough bread and tech money. Here now is a crash course ...

More disheartening news for the troubled Millennium Tower, Yerba Buena’s tony high-rise that’s tilting and sinking into the earth. A week ago, the Chronicle’s Matier and Ross broke news that ...

Denise A. Leadbetter, an attorney for Nadia Lama, disputes that Follingstad's situation is a constructive eviction by rent increase. When asked to elaborate, Leadbetter said, "You are not ...

Hoodmaps is an online tool that lets locals plant a label on any block or neighborhood in their city, giving outsiders a crowdsourced perspective on what we all think of our towns. Once a user ...

Flood water from the San Joaquin River overran the bridge at Friant, near Millerton Lake, on January 4, 1997. Lawrence K. Ho/Getty Images A storm one meteorologist is calling “a once-in-10-year ...

The story of Anne Kihagi—the San Francisco landlord hit with both millions of dollars in fines and a reputation as perhaps the city’s worst landlord after a court found her guilty of abusing ...

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 ...