On Opening Night, new skipper Tony Vitello experienced some of what managing the Giants in San Francisco can be: perfect day, beautiful ballpark, full house. Then the game happened.

What do waitlist acceptance rates look like for UCLA, UC Berkeley and every UC campus? Here are the most recent numbers, and what they mean for applicants this spring.

Even with rain in the forecast on the last day of the month, March will likely end up as one of the driest on record.

Wine clubs have not meaningfully evolved in years, despite given the wine industry’s desire to draw in new drinkers.

This small park near the Sunset District has some of the best views in San Francisco. You can thank a Chronicle reporter who saw bulldozers and rallied to save it in 1967.

Supervisor Matt Dorsey revived a proposal that would halt funding for new permanent supportive housing facilities that aren’t willing to evict residents on the basis of drug use.

On Opening Night, new skipper Tony Vitello experienced some of what managing the Giants in San Francisco can be: perfect day, beautiful ballpark, full house. Then the game happened.

A fixture in the Giants dugout for decades, Ron Wotus was there in uniform Wednesday night at the request of new manager Tony Vitello. “It makes us a better club.”

The Golden State Warriors, who have clinched a play-in tournament berth, needed to rally to beat the lowly Brooklyn Nets 109-106 on Wednesday at Chase Center.

Playing careers have declined or ended after suffering a torn patellar tendon, but medical experts say there’s reason for hope in Golden State Warriors guard Moses Moody’s outlook.

Palisades Tahoe is planning to close weeks ahead of schedule after record March heat rapidly reduced the Sierra snowpack.

Bay Area Grateful Dead fans will have a chance to own a piece of the band’s history when artifacts, straight from the archives of Jerry Garcia’s inner circle, go up for auction in San Francisco.

California’s Democratic Party appears to be stuck in neutral: the party’s leaders are still unwilling to take decisive steps to push low-polling candidates out of the governor’s race, even as the prospect of the deep-blue state electing a Republican leader looms.

The San Francisco Giants managed only three singles in new manager Tony Vitello’s first game as the Yankees roughed up Logan Webb in a 7-0 victory at Oracle Park on Wednesday night.

Two people were fatally shot in separate San Francisco neighborhoods late Tuesday night, with both shootings reported around the same time, police said.

A biomedical research nonprofit has leased 105,000 square feet in the last major new building of San Francisco’s Mission Bay. The deal is one of the city’s biggest leases of 2026, so far.

As he lays the groundwork for a presidential bid, Ro Khanna couldn’t ask for a more perfect opportunity to burnish his credentials than a fight with billionaires.

Mickey McConnell, the new St. Mary’s head men’s basketball coach, faces a challenging road to keep churning out 25-win seasons, as Randy Bennett routinely did with the Gaels.

USC is joining a fast-growing admissions trend among private universities that locks in students early — and leaves fewer spots for everyone else.

A woman was rescued from a cliff face overlooking Ocean Beach on Wednesday. This unfolded at a scenic point near the tip of the beach, where rocky cliffs slope sharply up to Sutro Heights Park.

In the pre-draft mailbag, 49ers beat writer Eric Branch answers queries about a huge Alabama lineman, the ever-tough NFC West and what the Niners can do to address their running back depth.

A humanoid robot from a Bay Area startup appeared alongside Melania Trump at the White House, underscoring Silicon Valley’s influence on AI and education policy.

An attorney representing the teen charged with manslaughter in the crash that killed four of her friends asked a Marin County judge to dismiss the case, saying a piece of evidence was unreliable.

A San Francisco high school math teacher under a district investigation for fat-shaming and sexist quiz questions, among other behaviors, has resigned, district officials confirmed Wednesday. He was a teacher at Lowell High School for more than 20 years.

San Francisco police arrested a 34-year-old man accused of pushing a woman inside her Russian Hill home and attempting to rape her last month, the department said in a statement.

The San Francisco Giants’ revolving door in left field in the first game ended in 2026 as Heliot Ramos got back-to-back assignments to snap a 19-year streak of a new face there every season.

California Democrats are attempting to fight efforts by Republicans to restrict voting by introducing a big update to the California Voting Rights Act Wednesday meant to expand voter access.

The 2026 MLB season opens today at Oracle Park with a marquee matchup between the Giants and Yankees. Other than attending in person, Giants fans can only watch it if they have a Netflix subscription. Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen... 📸: @santiagomejia.bsky.social/S.F. Chronicle

Golden State Warriors’ Draymond Green said he and members of the Mavericks were wrong about the cause of Moses Moody’s season-ending knee injury. “He didn’t slip.”

Two years ago, this 76,500-square-foot Market Street building almost became a shelter for women experiencing homelessness and abuse. Now it will become an office building.

Authorities have identified the 34-year-old woman from Hayward who was struck and killed by a driver while she was walking her dog in Newark last week.

Stonestown Galleria reopened Wednesday afternoon after the shopping center was evacuated to allow San Francisco police to respond to reports of a person making threats.

OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video-generation app, bringing an abrupt end to a major Hollywood push and a planned $1 billion investment from Disney.

The funding comes from a nonprofit formed last year that works with civic, business, labor, and philanthropic leaders to revitalize downtown San Francisco.

San Francisco police said Wednesday that Stonestown Galleria was evacuated after officers responded to reports of a person making threats at the shopping center. Read more → www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/s... 📸: Lea Suzuki/S.F. Chronicle

Piedmont police are searching for two suspects who allegedly injured a woman while attempting to rob her home in the middle of the night Tuesday.

A Bay Area restaurant group has snapped up the shuttered In-N-Out Burger in East Oakland that became a symbol of the city’s public safety crisis, paying $1.8 million for the abandoned property.

The Bay Area’s economy relies heavily on immigrants, with undocumented workers acting as a backbone in maintenance, hospitality, caregiving and service jobs, a new report shows.

TSA officials alerted immigration authorities before federal agents detained a mother and her 9-year-old daughter at San Francisco International Airport this week, according to a news report.

Meta is laying off hundreds of workers, adding another wave of layoffs in big tech amid huge AI spending. The cuts affect teams at Reality Labs, Facebook, global operations, recruiting and sales.

San Francisco officials warned the public to avoid Stonestown Galleria after police activity prompted an evacuation Wednesday afternoon.

Bay Area Grateful Dead fans will have a chance to own a piece of the band’s history when artifacts, straight from the archives of Jerry Garcia’s inner circle, go up for auction in San Francisco.

A Marin County congressman is pressing a bill that would set consistent federal standards for e-bikes, following a rash of collisions in the Bay Area and other parts of the country.

The tentative contract will head to rank-and-file members for a vote in the coming weeks. After that, the Board of Supervisors will take up the agreement.

Hotly contested roster battles characterized the San Francisco Giants’ spring training, a positive development as everyone on the bubble played well, but tough for decision makers.

Two people were fatally shot in separate San Francisco neighborhoods late Tuesday night, with both shootings reported around the same time, police said.

Palisades Tahoe is planning to close weeks ahead of schedule after record March heat rapidly reduced the Sierra snowpack.

As the San Francisco Giants head into a new season, who looks ready to break out? How was camp different under new manager Tony Vitello? And will his team post a winning record?

Former San Francisco 49ers guard Ben Bartch, 27, a 2025 season-opening starter, has agreed to terms with the Lions, the Chronicle first reported. Bartch will sign a contract in Detroit on Wednesday.

It’s Opening Day ⚾️ Here’s what S.F. Giants fans need to know to stream the game before first pitch.