San Francisco Chronicle

Gloria Swihart was at an aerobics class on the July morning the burglars broke into her home in Danville, Calif. They shattered a ground-level window in the eating area, just...

I love science. Advanced technology, we now learn, will soon be able to take us straight back to where we were in 1945. Which is to say, without TV. According...

From garden-variety cooks to professional chefs, everyone dreams of the perfect kitchen. Alice Medrich, founder a California bakery chain, longed for acres of counter space, plenty of cabinets and a...

Gian Luigi Ferri, the gunman who killed eight people and wounded six others Thursday before taking his own life in a San Francisco high-rise stairwell, was a frustrated man who...

President Clinton's peace proposal for the old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest was rejected instantly by both sides, with environmentalists declaring it "voodoo forestry" and timber cutters vowing to fight...

Let the ledger show that San Francisco parking meter FLM 2228, which guards the southeast corner of Fillmore and Clay Streets, gave away its first hour of parking. Jane Shepard...

The common headache finally is getting some respect, say doctors meeting in San Francisco to discuss the latest treatments for a malady that many traditionally considered too trivial and vague...

News item: General Electric has issued a press release asking journalists to stop calling its NBC television network "beleaguered" or "embattled." Count on me. I make it a practice not...

Amtrak's downtown station has become so dangerous that the nation's only intercity rail operation abruptly abandoned the Transbay Transit Terminal at First and Mission streets and moved away last week....

Even in this jaded era, people can't seem to get enough of love-at least of the make-believe variety. The No. 1 fiction best seller, "The Bridges of Madison County," is...