San Francisco

The spring housing market is shaping up to be the leanest and most competitive ever.

Ample has opened its first electric vehicle battery swap stations — in the San Francisco Bay Area. Uber drivers are their first customers.

Uber employee and recent Stanford grad Grace O’Brien used the free time she had due to the Covid-19 pandemic to create Peggs, a plant-based egg substitute.

As the raging pandemic continued to devastate Black-owned businesses, Vicktor Stevenson fought to protect his burgeoning lemonade empire by doubling down with a new brick and mortar location in Oakland, Calif. – but after losing the commercial space, Stevenson realized that in order to keep his business going, he’d need to pivot by expanding his company in unexpected ways.

Vicktor Stevenson founded Gourmonade in 2018. Now, the pandemic is putting the squeeze on his gourmet lemonade business. In part one of our “Rebound” series, we join Vicktor and his family in the Gourmonade kitchen to see how they’re pivoting the business to stay afloat.

Poet, publisher and bookseller Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco at age 101

After 139 years at 807 Franklin St. in San Francisco, a two-story Victorian house has a new address.

If you’re trying to pay off your mortgage early, good for you. I bought my first home at 26 and did it in 12 years. But here’s the biggest downside no one tells you.

A massive crackdown on drug trafficking in the San Francisco Bay Area has ended with dozens of people being indicted and the seizure of more than a half-ton of methamphetamine, federal authorities announced Thursday. “Operation Burnt Orange” involved four separate investigations over more than 1 1/2 years and numerous federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. With the help of…

From the streets of San Francisco to New York’s iconic Chinatown district there’s been a dramatic surge in the reported cases of hate crimes directed against members of the Asian American community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

UPDATE: San Francisco police confirmed just after 1 a.m. Sunday that the children have been found in the city’s Bayview District.

Savings app Beam, the subject of a CNBC investigation after customers couldn’t get their money out, has reached a tentative settlement with the FTC.

During the first few weeks of 2021, persistently high virus counts and a slow vaccine rollout have further tested the endurance of San Francisco businesses.

The San Francisco school board has voted to remove the names of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln from public schools after officials deemed them and other prominent figures, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, unworthy of the honor.

The move will affect 315 people, who will be notified by the end of the business day.

According to police, they responded to a call reporting vandalism at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home around 2 a.m. New Year’s Day.

A nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day

According to a recent report from LinkedIn, Americans have been flocking to cities like Austin, Phoenix and Nashville the most during the pandemic.

At the start of 2020, I found myself riding around on electric scooters in lieu of more costly Uber and Lyft rides, so in February, I decided to bite the bullet and buy my own. 

While home-flipping activity overall dropped in the third quarter of this year, gross returns for flippers soared to the highest level in 20 years.