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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Francisco is counting on Treasure Island as the site of more than 8,000 planned new homes, a massive expansion of residential development now underway. But dozens of current and former ...

Does supply and demand work for housing the way it’s supposed to? Does San Francisco, in particular, represent a weird freak of market rule that reverses the traditional effects? These questions ...

On April 4, 1870, Golden Gate Park, which measures 1,017 acres, opened to the public, quieting skeptics who said a park could never be built atop San Francisco’s sand dunes.

The new trend in Silicon Valley is housing—not just building it, as many tech titans do, but also making attention-grabbing expenditure plans diverting billions of dollars into affordable ...

It’s been 30 years since the Loma Prieta earthquake, and Bay Area fault lines decided to take note of the anniversary with a string of regional quakes that served as a timely reminder that the ...