Neil Fahy, San Francisco's oldest city employee at 99, has been leading nature hikes at Camp Mather since the camp was 20 years old — with one long interruption for a career in geology. The evening primrose blooms after dark along the trails near Camp Mather, and Neil Fahy knows exactly when to be there.
The Timber Fire has burned to nearly 3,800 acres above Big Sur with containment at 5 percent, threatening named coastal landmarks and…
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San Francisco fire commissioners are facing backlash after deciding to remove peer counselors from 911 calls, prompting concerns that…
21h agoSan Jose will cut the dying palms at its downtown Circle of Palms as an "emergency removal" — a designation that skips…
The Timber Fire cut the single access road to the Big Sur Condor Sanctuary, stranding two lead-poisoning-recovery…
BINI and SB19 played three sold-out nights at The Event at Graton Resort and Casino, a roughly 2,000-seat room in…
A worry making the rounds — that the Mission Cultural Center's January collapse imperils the neighborhood's Día de los…
Openhouse's LGBTQ+ senior campus at 55–95 Laguna Street holds 121 affordable units — and both waitlists are full.
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Paul's Hat Works, the custom hatmaker at 6128 Geary Blvd founded in 1918, appears to have closed in May with no public…
The founder and artistic director of the San Jose Jazz Summer Fest is retiring after 36 years, handing the eight-stage…
A permit filed August 7 to remove an elevator lobby door and hang a smoke curtain on the 4th floor of 149 New…
Urban Compassion Project's new Compassion Threads soft-launched a free clothing pop-up in an empty ground-floor…
A Marina property filed two building permits on August 8 — a $625,000 remodel of the main house and a $120,000 detached…
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A 15-year legal settlement between UC Berkeley and the Panoramic Hill Association barred amplified concerts at…
The former Barneys building at 48 Stockton — vacant since the retailer's 2020 bankruptcy — filed two alterations…
Two permits — a $190,000 grading filing and an $87,240 demolition filing — entered triage in early August at the vacant…
Permit 202608076277, in triage since August 7, would carve a $50,000 ground-floor accessory unit into a five-unit…
Badlands and Toad Hall paused their Patronscan facial-recognition kiosks effective immediately on August 7, the day…
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For the seventh straight year, the personal-finance site WalletHub named Fremont the happiest city in America — a title…
City crews fenced off Circle of Palms Plaza, next to the San Jose Museum of Art, on Friday morning after finding all 32…
Twice a month the Black Rock Collective convenes at Oakland climbing gyms — and a downtown floor that usually reads…
The shuttered San Francisco Centre at 865 Market St.
SF Chronicle readers picked the Richmond District over sunnier neighborhoods as the place they'd most want to live.
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Outside Lands wraps Sunday after three days and roughly 225,000 people in Golden Gate Park.
The viral Farmacias Similares mascot has two Bay Area dates on the calendar — Aug.
A single-family home in West of Twin Peaks filed a $9,000 permit on August 5 to satisfy a city enforcement case —…
Oakland broke ground July 30 on a $34 million-plus rebuild of the Lincoln Recreation Center at 250 10th Street in…
The 75-year-old Oakland Catholic high school has pulled the Pride and Progress flags from its classrooms and offices…
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A woman on a private electric scooter died Friday morning at Market and 5th, a few feet from the Powell Street BART and…
A two-story house at 958 Kingwood St. in Santa Rosa burned Thursday afternoon; all six residents got out, the home was…
Metreon, known for its Target store and IMAX theater, is expected to be sold this year to a local real estate group.
WatchingVerdi Building in North Beach transformed via state housing laws into 89-unit apartment project
WatchingThe French Laundry Chef Thomas Keller said “non” to a controversial Yountville housing development
WatchingAlteration permit: Rear patio and stair revision at Elizabeth Street
WatchingAlteration permit: Rear wall damage repair and paint at 17th Street
WatchingAlteration permit: Final inspection for completed work at Parker Avenue
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