Bay Area copes and cools from October sizzle at coast as heat wave continues
As the Bay Area sizzles in this October heat wave, many folks were mapping out a plan to keep cool. That meant heading for ...
San Francisco's Prop K would transform Great Highway into recreation space
San Francisco’s Great Highway could undergo the most dramatic transformation of its ninety-five year existence if Prop K ...
Inside a North Carolina mountain town that Hurricane Helene nearly wiped off the map
The stone tower that gave this place its name was nearly a half billion years in the making — heated and thrust upward from ...
San Francisco is changing before our eyes — just like it always has been
If there’s one thing I could change from my 23 years as the San Francisco Chronicle’s urban design critic, it would be how I spent my first day on the beat. Instead of doing whatever it is that I did, ...
Unearthed photos reveal why 5 San Francisco city blocks disappeared
San Franciscans can now see how their city has changed over the past century from above, thanks to a clever new feature from Google. Launched last week, the “historical imagery” function on Google ...