Oakland CA

If you wake up early on a Saturday and the N-Judah is rolling through the fog, the Sunset District is one of the more grounding places in San Francisco to eat brunch. The neighborhood leans hard on California sourcing — levain bread, farmers market produce, sustainable seafood — and quietly hosts a small constellation of Japanese cafes that work beautifully as a lighter, more meditative...

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A short, well-shaded loop with a bench at the halfway point is, for many walkers, the perfect spring outing. These five lesser-known creekside trails in Walnut Creek deliver exactly that — paved or gentle paths, a generous tree canopy, and reliable seating, without the crowds of Heather Farm.

The ability to get around the Bay Area by bicycle has become a major focus of transportation planners, but there has always been one major roadblock: the western span of the Bay Bridge.

Brisbane, a city with fewer than 5,000 residents tucked along U.S. 101, is staring down a redevelopment plan that could almost double its housing stock and rewrite its skyline. A long-planned Baylands makeover that would add roughly 2,000 homes and millions of square feet of office and other non-residential space is about to hit its final round of city-level scrutiny. Officials...

Ghirardelli Square, the waterfront landmark perched above Fisherman’s Wharf, has changed hands. The 12-building complex is now owned by a new outfit called Embrace Real Estate, together with an affiliate of Miami-based 1823 Partners. The buyers say they plan to refresh the mix of shops and experiences with what they describe as best-in-class tenants, and they have tapped a new...

The disappearance of Crishtian Michael Hughes on February 7, 2013, remains one of the most troubling unresolved missing person cases connected to San Francisco, California. He was only 20 years old when he vanished, a young man who had traveled from San Diego to visit friends and was expected to return home within days. Instead, the trip ended in mystery. He never made his...

A stolen car chase in San Francisco ended with a suspect dangling beneath the Bay Bridge to avoid arrest, and the whole wild scene was caught on drone video.

Two earthquakes, magnitude 3.0 and 2.7, struck off the coast of San Francisco in quick succession on Saturday afternoon. About 1,000 residents reported light shaking on the USGS website.

San Diego was promised a bullet train to Los Angeles. Gavin Newsom once promised to deliver it. Neither promise has been kept — and if you live here, you have been paying for the failure for nearly two decades. The California High-Speed Rail project, approved by voters in 2008...