San Francisco Chronicle

Freddie Meeks, 83, pardoned by President Bill Clinton 55 years after being court-martialed for mutiny for refusing to return to work after the cataclysmic Port Chicago explosion, died Thursday in...

While travel doctors and nurses recently were overwhelmed with calls from people worried about contracting SARS, a rare (if unpredictable) disease, the everyday health hazards of being on the road...

Tote your floor cleaners, sprays and sponges with old-fashioned style. Restoration Hardware's new Housekeepers Box is made from enameled metal and has a wide handle and a removable, three-compartment tray...

Most of the residents of this northern Sierra Foothill town migrated here to escape, as they put it, "The City" -- not San Francisco, specifically, but the basic ethos of...

San Francisco has gone from dot-com to domestic. Responding to a record glut of office space and a chronic housing shortage, the city is beginning to convert downtown buildings --...

You're at a party. You grab some bread, Brie and a glass of buttery Chardonnay and go in search of a comfy place to nosh. But there's nowhere to sit....

No doubt many of us think we can aim a power drill, pull the trigger and bore a hole at the exact angle that we pictured in our mind's eye....

It's spring, almost summer--time to be thinking vacation. Time to think "resort." What'll it be this year? Bermuda? Nah, too cliched. Vegas? Huh-uh, too hot. Yosemite? Forget it, too crowded....

Home furnishings companies always are trying to gauge what the next trend will be, and one specialty retailer, looking at the popularity of TV's "West Wing," is betting there's a...

In Arabic, their name means "those who sacrifice themselves for Saddam." The Fedayeen Saddam do the dirty work in Iraq. If Saddam Hussein's secret police decide to behead a dissident...