AT AN ANNUAL STATE ARCHEOLOGY CONFERENCE in March, anthropology professor Alexis Boutin fielded some questions about whether her program was still ...

San Francisco’s Bay to Breakers returns on Sunday with throngs of costumed runners and plenty of spectators on the 7.456-mile ...

WHO SAYS AGING CAN’T BE FUN? Speakers at this year’s Healthy Aging 2026 conference at Stanford University encouraged older ...

AN INTREPID SEA LION nicknamed Chonkers is waddling his way into the hearts of tourists and locals who have flocked to San Francisco's Pier 39 for a A massive sea lion nicknamed “Chonkers” is drawing ...

THE 40-FOOT MALE GRAY WHALE on RCA Beach had drifted past Tiburon on March 28, slid through the Golden Gate on a strong tide, ...

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NEIGHBORHOOD OPPOSITION against a proposed seven-story apartment complex in Willow Glen has entered a new phase, after one resident launched a lawsuit A Willow Glen resident has filed a lawsuit ...

FILE: Kitchen staff serve people in Bolinas, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. Marin County officials are considering expanding a microenterprise support program that helps immigrant entrepreneurs and ...

Members of San Francisco’s addiction-recovery community and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman rally in support of legislation to create permanent drug-free supportive housing in San ...

An environmental impact report released last week for a shuttered prison in Dublin has brought the facility one step closer ...

(AI illustration by Joe Dworetzky/Bay City News via ChatGPT) TUESDAY BROUGHT CINCO DE MAYO and the sixth day in the trial of Elon Musk’s claims against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and OpenAI, the San ...

Best-selling East Bay author Vanessa Hua started writing her new novel “Coyoteland” in the spring of 2021, a year into the ...