San Francisco Chronicle

When a national panel of experts on heart disease recommended five years ago that all men and women over the age of 20 have their cholesterol levels checked, Baby Boomers...

A Beverly Hills pawnshop has a rare, $70,000 1989 white Porsche Speedster convertible in the lobby, along with an antique red Jaguar and a gold-and chrome-plated Harley-Davidson. A Texas-based chain...

It lurks in the middle of Palo Alto as a kind of Mt. Everest for agoraphobics: the Stanford Shopping Center. For people who suffer from "fear of the marketplace," malls...

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...

There's an alarming and not too attractive trend in restaurants these days: bright pink pork. Last month the trade journal Nation's Restaurant News ran an article on how chefs are...

The city's hardest-working thief is back in jail, and the U-Haul truck he stole three times finally is locked up too, police say. German-born Uwe Siewfert, 29, is being held...

Since the recent rash of food poisonings on the West Coast, public concern over food contamination through improper handling has increased. Washington State health officials believe that the deaths of...

A lamp made out of Louisville Slugger baseball bats. A Trimline telephone built to fit on top of a football helmet stand. An entire house teeming with everything from sporty...

A lamp made out of Louisville Slugger baseball bats. A Trimline telephone built to fit on top of a football helmet stand. An entire house teeming with everything from sporty...

State school chief Bill Honig, a nationally recognized leader of the school reform movement, was found guilty Friday of using his elected post to direct money to a private educational...