He was an addict, trying to turn his life around. She was a counselor who said she wanted to help. Who was preying on whom?

In the year since the horrific crash in Marin County, people who knew the victims have disagreed about what justice for a teenage driver looks like. The aftermath has occasionally gotten ugly.

The woman who answered a reporter’s call last month was hesitant, at first. She withheld the painful account she would later reveal. The next morning, she asked to keep talking.

The cannabis shop on storied Haight Street had it all: prime real estate, star power, political clout and social justice. Then things got ugly.

A trove of internal police files provides a more complete accounting of the early episode that could have jeopardized Aaron McFarlane’s career before a high-profile shooting.

Michael Jacobs’ story illustrates how even a ‘homicidal’ defendent can end up living right next door.

The national reckoning over police abuse has lost momentum. But at age 80, Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris keeps suing to force change.

Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.

Before killings linked to cultlike ‘Zizians,’ a string of suicides and psychiatric crises befell AI doomsdayers

The complex legacy of SF Police Chief Bill Scott, who navigated a pandemic, a theft epidemic, union backlash and a reckoning against killings by officers.

UC Berkeley student Zoe Rosenberg is going to trial for taking chickens from a California slaughterhouse. Critics call it terrorism, but she calls it a rescue.

For decades, retired San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan covered the city's unhoused population.

San Francisco’s Parks Alliance is in financial disarray, leaving community groups ‘high and dry’

A lawsuit alleges that the city of Belvedere levied excessive fines and set arbitrary deadlines for a home remodel that dragged on for years.

S.F. journalism teacher says he was reassigned over a controversial story in Lowell’s student paper

The president is trying to rewrite the narrative of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s wrongful deportation as a dispute about illegal immigration rather than the rule of law.

Decades ago, the Kern River flowed through Bakersfield. Now it is dry — but some residents are dreaming of its return.

Like San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and Warriors forward Jimmy Butler, political veteran Barbara Lee must unite competing factions as Oakland’s next mayor.

As Yosemite's busy summer tourism season looms, trepidation and uncertainty swirl.

From the Fairmont Hotel to the Flood Building, a visual tour of landmarks that survived the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.

A new program, Buy-Protect-Sell, seeks to sell agricultural land to a Sonoma County farmer anywhere from 30% to 70% below current market value.

Many international students told the Chronicle they are too scared to speak out as the Trump administration has revoked more than 1,300 college students' visas.

Bipped economy? San Francisco auto glass shops are suffering as car break-in crimes drop and their workloads decrease.

This historic town built on chickens and eggs and community is like time travel in all the best ways

Lynn Riordan found stability as a transgender woman in San Francisco. Now she’s considering giving it up to escape President Donald Trump’s anti-trans agenda.

An Oakland man sold his car to an acquaintance. How’d he end up owing SF $38,000 in parking fines?

A video Jesse Gros took on his Jan. 5 walk through a burn scar in the Pacific Palisades Highlands neighborhood before the L.A. fire began has gone viral.

Some Democrats’ support for the Laken Riley Act illustrates how difficult the road will be for the party to claw back power if they are divided on key issues.

Chefs, colleagues and friends reflect on the influence of Charles Phan of San Francisco's the Slanted Door.

As his profile within the Trump administration has grown, Elon Musk has endorsed many ideas that, if enacted, could affect California.

Federal officials described a “pay to play” conspiracy in which Thao and her boyfriend profited and powerful businessmen earned favors.

He was a cop who saw the drug crisis up close on S.F.’s streets. Then his addiction nearly killed him

“I will also end the government policy of trying to socially engineer race and gender into every aspect of public and private life,” Trump said Monday.

Federal officials described a “pay-to-play” conspiracy in which Thao and her boyfriend profited and powerful businessmen earned favors.

Former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao has been criminally indicted by a federal grand jury following an FBI corruption investigation.

Firefighters stopped a fire from reaching Pacific Palisades before dawn on New Year’s Day. Could high winds have re-ignited undetected embers six days later?

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Among the landmarks torched or threatened by the Palisades Fire are the Getty Villa and a church in Pacific Palisades.

Ending fact-checking is Donald Trump’s fever dream, especially on the platform where so many of his acolytes blindly traffic his conspiracy theories.