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The recently approved state budget directs $4.2 billion in bond funding to the Bakersfield-to-Merced leg of California’s long-awaited high-speed rail project.

With Hadestown, the Tony-winning musical that has finally made it on tour and landed in San Francisco, the Orpheus and Eurydice myth becomes fodder for music and metaphor, and Greek tragedy never sounded so melodic and bittersweet.

The neo-classical 1910 bank building at the corner of Sutter and Sansome streets, just off of Market, has been an underutilized, glorified lobby for the attached Citibank tower at One Sansome for decades. Now the owner has decided to reinvigorate the grand, centrally located space as a bar, restaurant and

Just a quick update from the falcon cam atop the UC Berkeley Campanile: Two out of three eggs hatched, and the two chicks are now 11 and 12 days old and eagerly scarfing down whatever prey mom Annie and stepdad Alden bring them.

You may know someone with COVID right now, or you may have it yourself, as San Francisco is a couple of weeks into a surge being driven by the highly contagious BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.

The days of going out to new restaurants are back, even if you yourself haven't been out to eat in a while. And there's a bunch of new spots to check out in San Francisco if and when you have the inclination or want to celebrate the city dropping the indoor mask rule.

Winter in San Francisco is all about warming drinks, rich ingredients, and red-wine meals — and ordering the stew that might also be nice on a chilly summer night, but is actually best enjoyed when it's raining outside.

What had been planned as an 818-foot tower has become an 1,066-foot tower according to newly unveiled project plans from developer Hines for a site behind the historic PG&E headquarters building in downtown SF.

Beloved Mission diner and ice cream parlor St. Francis Fountain has just reopened its counter for dining after 21 months of keeping it empty out of pandemic caution.

San Francisco and the rest of the Bay Area have bounced back into the CDC's yellow tier indicating "moderate" COVID transmission, down from the orange tier — and following a number of weeks when San Francisco County has bounced between the two.