San Francisco Chronicle

A new concessionaire has taken over the hotels and business operations at Yosemite National Park, marking the biggest change in the park in generations. The new operator-Delaware North Companies of...

U.S. District Judge John Peter Vukasin Jr., a conservative jurist appointed in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 65. Judge Vukasin died Monday of cancer in his...

Thomas Patrick Phelan, who rose from a stock exchange clerk to become the first president of the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, died in a San Rafael retirement home. He was...

For a year and a half now, I have lived in a one-bedroom house near San Francisco, next to a big, leafy chestnut tree and across the street from Mrs....

It was a furious legal battle waged in three courts until the California Supreme Court recently put an end to it, lifting the seal on a mysterious lawsuit against an...

Bret Logue could have gone to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania this fall like any 18-year-old East Coast overachiever. Instead, the Waterford, N.J., resident recently found himself riding an overheated horse...

The names are the same: Clark Kent. Lois Lane. Metropolis. The Daily Planet. But ABC's glossy "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" is a crafty departure from the...

Newsmagazine shows are proliferating like jackrabbits, and still the public isn't sated. Their success could point the way toward a radical change in network programming, with the possibility of consolidating...

The number 1,000 may not be large, as numbers go, but it was big enough to stun the world of mathematics. One thousand is the number of people who showed...

Well-known actor Keanu Reeves and his new band Dogstar packed the huge local rock club One Step Beyond for a recent concert. Reeves, in a surfer-boy crew-cut and black T-shirt,...