The Chronicle’s restaurant critics recognized Quince in San Francisco for best hospitality as part of the Chronicle’s Top 100 Restaurants for 2026.

This new Sonoma County cheesemaker produces “arguably the best feta” in the United States.

Philz Coffee has reversed course on a highly controversial plan to remove Pride flags from its cafés

This Napa company has told other subscription services it cannot use the phrase “bean club,” which it recently trademarked.

San Francisco Zoo leadership announced a “structural reorganization” that will include the cutting of a “small number of positions,” according to an email obtained by the Chronicle.

A road to some of the Bay Area’s most expensive real estate will flood when the seas rise. When the county said it might not fix it, homeowners threatened “billions in liability.”

A road to some of the Bay Area’s most expensive real estate will flood when the seas rise. When the county said it might not fix it, homeowners threatened “billions in liability.”

A nurse and her Great Dane arrived at her patient’s house in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights to deliver dinner to a neighbor. When they rounded a corner, a mountain lion was three feet away.

A road to some of the Bay Area’s most expensive real estate will flood when the seas rise. When the county said it might not fix it, homeowners threatened “billions in liability.”

You can now buy Dungeness crab off the boat at a Fisherman’s Wharf popup in San Francisco — and get it cooked to order.

Matter Neuroscience believes the country’s most liberal and conservative cities can talk to each other. They just needed to install a telephone.

Marin County is one of the wealthiest parts of the Bay Area. But there is no easy way to conjure up the estimated $17 billion to address sea level rise and emergency flood threats.

Marin County is one of the wealthiest parts of the Bay Area. But there is no easy way to conjure up the estimated $17 billion to address sea level rise and emergency flood threats.

Water levels around the San Francisco Bay Area rose over a foot higher than the tide charts predicted last week as a winter storm arrived during king tides. Here’s why.

The tide charts used in the state and across the country are based on sea levels from roughly the 1990s.

Signature Healthcare Services has rapidly expanded through financial maneuvers that have imposed enormous strain on its own hospitals.

A new levee coming to Palo Alto will protect from rising seas, restore the bay shoreline and improve water quality.

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers are pointing fingers at the federal government after a false alert went out to millions of Californians for an earthquake that never happened.

Thousands of people in this major Bay Area city already face periodic flooding. It’s projected to get much worse.

A scientist who is an expert on the feared Cascadia Fault discusses the prospect of huge, linked earthquakes in the Northwest and the Bay Area.

San Francisco’s largest animal shelter and veterinary hospital, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, announced the layoffs of 11% of staff.

A little-known and highly dangerous earth metal used to craft spaceships has been found in wildfire-ravaged homes and in the air in Los Angeles. Experts are shocked — and alarmed.

Tanya Peterson, the San Francisco Zoo’s longtime CEO, has resigned following controversies that raised questions about her leadership. She faced pressure from Mayor Daniel Lurie and others.

A new report spells out the price of adapting to major storms, rising tides and other risks that threaten to swamp most homes in the coming decades.

The number of gray whales that migrated past Central California is the smallest since federal protections began.

Shelter records are full of heartbreak in San Francisco. Last year, such cases propelled Animal Care and Control to the highest rate of euthanasia since 2013 — and it’s on track to worsen this...

As city scrutiny of the San Francisco Zoo ramps up, the board of the nonprofit that runs it is under the spotlight — and several of its members have resigned.

The San Francisco Zoo, dogged by controversy, is being audited by the city. The audit office says the zoo is failing to provide key documents.

Yosemite National Park’s major contractor, Aramark, received unusually poor performance grades in a newly available report from the park service.

A San Francisco supervisor accused the zoo of not complying with a city audit, even as the zoo still hopes to get giant pandas from China.

California’s native Olympia oysters survived the Gold Rush, pollution and more. They also appear unusually hardy in the face of global warming.

A top San Francisco Zoo official who backed a plan to remove its controversial CEO resigned Tuesday, along with three board members this week.

California’s native Olympia oysters survived the Gold Rush, pollution and more. They also appear unusually hardy in the face of global warming.

Alcatraz is a prime San Francisco tourist site. But after President Trump ordered it to become a prison again, the Federal Bureau of Prisons is scoping it out.

San Francisco Zoo board member resigns over lack of action on CEO Tanya Peterson

Federal prosecutors accused Sonoma real estate developer Kenneth Mattson of operating a sprawling Ponzi scheme.

The Chronicle was honored for uncovering the secret deals that hide police misconduct and documenting the deadly toll of police chases.

Opponents say the move could set a dangerous precedent and is part of an effort to undermine the Endangered Species Act.

A group of scientists and volunteers released tiny Silvery blue butterflies in San Francisco’s Presidio in an effort to increase biodiversity.

A major earthquake on the Cascadia subduction zone could increase flooding risk significantly in the Pacific Northwest and Northern California, study says.

California research institutions could lose access to millions of dollars, which could impact atmospheric river forecasts and Coast Guard rescues.

Amid what one state lawmaker described as ‘existential threats’ to oceans and...

San Francisco could have a ban on glue traps. Opponents say they are cruel and harm wildlife. But they also are inexpensive and can be effective.

NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

For the first time in history, California salmon fishing will be closed for the third year in a row to protect a plunging population of fish

For the first time in history, California salmon fishing will be closed for the third year in a row to protect a plunging population of fish