The streaming spectacle of Opening Night struggled to get out of the way of showing you the San Francisco Giants play the New York Yankees. Here’s what was bad and good about it.

Wood has been in custody since police arrested him on Tuesday evening in connection with the fatal incident.

Petaluma police are investigating three suspicious fires that broke out in the downtown area over two early mornings.

Find out how much you remember about the local news reported by the San Francisco Chronicle with our weekly quiz.

One pedestrian was killed and another was injured after a driver struck them and then crashed into a building in San Francisco’s Chinatown, officials said.

The proposal would require police officers to ask to see federal agents’ credentials, part of a push to increase transparency around immigration enforcement in San Francisco.

A tour helicopter carrying five people crashed off Kauai’s Na Pali Coast, killing three and injuring two.

Oakland officials said they opened an arson investigation after a fire broke out at an insurance business on Fruitvale Avenue.

The third No Kings Day is predicted to break protest attendance records, demonstrating that President Trump’s most sustained resistance has been at the grassroots level.

Okonomi-latkes fuse Passover-friendly potato pancakes with okonomiyaki’s cabbage-rich batter in this recipe.

While San Francisco’s focus is often on new housing production, far less attention goes to maintaining what already exists, much of it home to working-class residents and low-income seniors.

A weekly quiz to see if you can name the date of notable newspaper covers that were published during this week in history

Shayna Rubin, who covers the Giants for the Chronicle, is a lifelong San Franciscan who had never taken to the water of McCovey Cove. Until Opening Night, that is.

Bay Area temperatures are forecast to spike again this weekend, wrapping up a month that’s on track to finish as the region’s warmest March on record.

Here are UC acceptance rates for California community college transfer students to UCLA, Berkeley and other UC campuses in 2025.

United Airlines and its flight attendants union have announced that they reached a new tentative agreement that will include pay raises for the first time since the COVID pandemic.

Chef power couple Evan and Sarah Rich return with another hit restaurant in San Francisco.

Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly took aim at San Francisco’s most powerful political players for the “permissive” politics he argued let homelessness and drug addiction run rampant.

The local AI gold rush could be a political boon for Daniel Lurie if it creates jobs and attracts new companies. Yet the sector also poses risks for San Francisco and its mayor.

These self-driving robots are designed to do away with one of electric driving’s inconveniences: the charging station.

A Peninsula school district is proposing raising taxes to fund new facilities after it projected a massive enrollment spike prompted by the closure of a private school funded by Mark Zuckerberg.

A pair of Tahoe athletes and a Swedish filmmaker just completed a grueling ski-mountaineering adventure through the High Sierra that they believe marks a first-of-its-kind journey.

Saturday’s NCAA Tournament Elite Eight game in San Jose matches two teams with contrasting philosophies: Purdue’s senior-heavy lineup against Arizona’s core of dynamic freshmen.

Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly took aim at San Francisco’s most powerful political players for the “permissive” politics he argued let homelessness and drug addiction run rampant.

The Bay Area’s seemingly bottomless obsession with supersize Asian grocery stores continued Thursday with a new outpost of this Korean favorite in Dublin.

Another detail in the revealing report: San Francisco’s historic cable cars are staggeringly expensive to run, costing the agency $871 an hour.

Texas point guard Jordan Pope, who played for Freedom-Oakley and Napa’s Prolific Prep, broke a bone in his foot in an earlier game but scored 12 points in Thursday’s 79-77 loss to Purdue.

A hit-and-run collision in Oakland left a 59-year-old man from Concord in critical condition. He was transported to a hospital with a fractured skull, broken leg and other injuries.

Two men who worked as couriers in a Stanford University graduate’s drug delivery service will avoid prison time, a federal judge ruled this month. Known as “The Shop,” the service trafficked illicit drugs to “students and young professionals” around the Bay Area.

A driver was killed in Hayward after a Thursday evening crash that downed a light pole and a tree near the intersection of Foothill Boulevard and Ash Street, authorities said.

Two men who worked as couriers in a Stanford University graduate’s drug delivery service will avoid prison time, a federal judge ruled this month. Known as “The Shop,” the service trafficked illicit drugs to “students and young professionals” around the Bay Area.

The co-owner of a popular Oakland coffee shop is missing after last being seen in the Cleveland Heights neighborhood near Lake Merritt, authorities said.

Matt Chapman’s unflattering comments about Oracle Park’s dirt didn’t go unnoticed. In the offseason, the San Francisco Giants’ infield got a 300-ton upgrade.

California will officially celebrate Farmworkers Day on March 31, after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Thursday renaming the holiday previously known as Cesar Chavez Day.

Zendaya says she plans to step back from the spotlight after a packed 2026 that includes four major films and the return of “Euphoria,” calling it time to “go into hiding.”

The Trump administration is demanding years of admissions data from Stanford, UCSD and Ohio State medical schools, threatening to pull federal funding if they don’t comply.

Northstar California Resort will end its season early, joining a growing list of Tahoe ski areas forced to close ahead of schedule as warm weather shrinks the Sierra snowpack.

The man found dead inside a Lafayette home was killed with a hatchet by a man who previously wrote troubling social media posts asking for someone to kill the victim, new details reveal.

East Bay native Tom Hanks has been cast in “The Comebacker,” a film adaptation of Dave Eggers’ baseball short story of the same name about the San Francisco Giants.

A 34-year-old mother was sentenced to nearly 16 years in prison after pleading no contest in the death of her 8-year-old daughter, whose body was found decomposing in a Merced home in 2022.

A United Airlines flight from San Francisco International Airport was involved in a near miss with a military Black Hawk helicopter during its approach in Southern California, according to the FAA.

Despite few cases of transgender women transferring to women’s prisons in California, the Department of Justice has declared it will investigate.

The teen had been riding without a license, in what police described as a reckless manner at “unsafe speeds.”

A wave of high-rise apartment buildings could transform this Marin County city’s skyline.

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

A longtime grocery store known for its higher-end offerings in Mountain View is slated to close in May, affecting about 50 employees.

This triple-digit brew, the most expensive cup in the Bay Area, is available at a downtown San Francisco coffee shop.

No one is believed to have traversed the 107-mile route in winter, when mountain conditions are extremely challenging.

UC Berkeley is the second most selective UC, with a 14% in-state acceptance rate. Here is the latest data on acceptance rates to all UC campuses for California public and private high schools.

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green says his concern is less about Stephen Curry coming back to “save the day” and more about ensuring he’s healthy for the long term.