San Francisco has long been the country’s progressive proving ground. It’s where ambitious ideas are tested, movements begin, ...

The Vaillancourt Fountain, sitting in the heart of San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza, has long divided opinion. It's a ...

Macy's closure marks a significant shift, while funding efforts are underway to reconnect Old Sacramento to the downtown area ...

Ditch the car and discover the American cities, from California to Connecticut, with attractions you can stroll to ...

A historic gay bar on San Francisco’s Polk Street is getting a second life. The Cinch Saloon, once at risk of closing, has a ...

The City Council of San Jose, California, has voted to make homeless people eligible for arrest if they reject three offers of housing. The mayor says homeless people who refuse offers of shelter ...

Over the past 55 years, San Francisco’s hotly contested Vaillancourt Fountain has been given a laundry list of monikers.

Peter Weiss, a faculty researcher and lecturer at the UC-Santa Cruz department of environmental sciences, said that despite a ...

Activists are butting heads with a local preservation organization over a proposal to turn part of the city’s North Beach ...

Major changes are coming to Fisherman’s Wharf — namely the demolition of the landmark Sicilian seafood restaurant Alioto’s — ...

The Golden Gate Bridge is a San Francisco landmark, but it is also well-known ... researchers studied the change in suicide rates at the bridge during three periods: before (January 2000 to ...

The Presidio Trust has overseen extensive changes to one of San Francisco’s most scenic and historic parklands in the federal agency’s nearly 30 years of existence. Congress created the ...