Hurricane Rafael picked up in intensity and became a Category 3 storm Wednesday ahead of an expected landfall in Cuba.

Fresh waves of layoffs are poised to eliminate the jobs of several hundred tech workers in the Bay Area, a disquieting series of setbacks that suggest the sector's staffing reductions have yet to run ...

Simon is regarded as “a rising star within Bay Area politics and the Democratic Party ... At the time, Simon was a young ...

Relative newcomer Rowena Brown had a lead over former Chief LeRonne Armstrong in early returns in a close City Council ...

Daniel Lurie, a philanthropist from a prominent Jewish family, was leading the San Francisco mayor’s race by 12 points on ...

The 237-foot-tall landmark constructed in 1881 was the brainchild of San Jose Mercury publisher J.J. Owen, who was inspired ...

From one of pop music’s biggest stars to an opera about Mount Everest and a music festival inspired by Leonard Cohen, there ...

The high-stakes fight for the House is still unsettled. Speaker Mike Johnson and his allies projecting confidence that a ...

California was lashed by powerful wind Wednesday that fed one fast-moving wildfire near multimillion-dollar properties along ...

Posey is leaning on his strengths as a player reading people and understanding their strengths and weakness in his new role.

Nov. 7 is a Thursday, the first Thursday of the month, which means San Francisco’s Downtown First Thursdays is serving up a ...

Called Mount Zion Ranch, the property sits next to filmmaker Geroge Lucas’s Loma Alta Preserve and directly above the ...