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A Car Wash Lot Sat Empty for a Decade. The Deal That Finally Fills It Says More About SF Than the Billboard Does
Greystar, the largest apartment landlord in the country, has lined up financing to put 203 units on the vacant Touchless Car Wash corner at…
California High-Speed Rail's Own Inspector General Just Put a Date on the Cash Cliff: December 2027
California's high-speed rail project has been "running out of money" for a decade of headlines.
AIPAC Money and Dueling FEC Complaints Upend the Race to Replace Swalwell
A week out from the Aug. 18 special election to fill Eric Swalwell's East Bay congressional seat, more than $5 million in outside money has flooded…
Lurie Brands Prop I a 'Slush Fund' — Backed by the Police and Fire Unions He Just Gave Raises
Mayor Daniel Lurie has come out against Proposition I, the November ballot measure that would steer San Francisco's real-estate transfer tax toward…
The Criminal Case Stopped at Two Drivers. A San Mateo Jury Put a Quarter of the Blame on the Racer's Parents.
A San Mateo County jury on Tuesday awarded $33 million to the twin girls orphaned in a 2022 Redwood City street race — and, in a finding the criminal…
SF Waived the Affordable-Housing Rules to Get Offices Converted. Its Latest Win, 150 Hayes, Has 104 Units and No Required Below-Market Homes.
To coax developers into turning empty downtown offices into apartments, San Francisco cut transfer taxes, rezoned commercial blocks, and eliminated…
Suisun City Won't Rule Out Paying a Ransom as Its Cyberattack Enters a Second Week
Asked whether Suisun City would pay a ransom to the people who crippled its computer network, Mayor Alma Hernandez did not say no.
BART's Weekends Came Back. Its Weekdays Didn't — and That's the Whole Budget Problem.
Weekend riders have all but returned to BART's trains.
Oakland Station Seniors Took Their Roaches to Sacramento — to the State Agency That Funded Their Landlord
More than 20 senior tenants from a deep East Oakland affordable complex bused to Sacramento last week not just to shame their property manager, but…
SFO's $11 Billion Building Spree Bets on Luxury — Even as Its Own Runway Work Fuels Delays
San Francisco International Airport is roughly midway through an $11 billion, decade-long capital program — pouring billions into a Terminal 3…
A Tourism Board Wants Alameda County, Dublin and Pleasanton to Bankroll a $365M Arena. One City Is Already Broke.
Visit Tri-Valley, the region's taxpayer-supported tourism arm, is pitching a $365 million, publicly funded event center near the Dublin/Pleasanton…
A $25,000 Check and a Bay FC Sweatshirt: The Loophole Bankrolling Matt Dorsey
Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen can legally give Supervisor Matt Dorsey's reelection campaign no more than $500.
Lurie Says a Former Nordstrom Rack Will Become 136 Homes. The City Won't Say How Many Are Affordable.
Mayor Daniel Lurie's newest housing showpiece is a shuttered discount department store at 901 Market St.
SF Foreclosure Tax Clears Committee, Awaits Full Board Vote for November Ballot
A controversial proposal to tax foreclosure sales of commercial and multifamily properties in San Francisco has successfully navigated the Budget and…
Roblox's Safety Overhaul Comes With a Wall Street Bill: San Mateo Firm Loses a Quarter of Its Value in a Day
Roblox, the San Mateo game platform that spent 2026 rebuilding itself around child safety, watched Wall Street punish that bet on Friday: shares…
Newsom Finally Released His Tax Returns — Late, and Under a Federal Cloud
Gov. Gavin Newsom released four years of tax returns Friday — his first disclosure since 2022 — after years of not honoring a pledge to publish them…
San Ramon Isn't Converting Its Empty Offices — It's Demolishing Them for 8,000 Homes
San Ramon's Bishop Ranch, a 585-acre corporate office park, isn't retrofitting its half-empty buildings into apartments.
The People Leaving the Bay Area to Buy Homes Aren't the Richest or the Poorest, a New UC Study Finds
Bay Area residents who leave the region are 33% more likely to own a home five years later — but a new University of California study finds the…