San Francisco Chronicle

The stairs were what finally convinced Jan and Arney Lundquist to take the big step and move from a 3,200-square-foot home to one less than half that size. Both are...

New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley, who has been mentioned as a possible Democratic vice presidential candidate, has ruled out accepting the second spot on the ticket. With Arkansas Gov. Bill...

I`m all, ''When did people start talking this way?'' So I call my friend George Lakoff, the, you know, linguist? And he`s all, ''What is `all` doing there? It`s not...

Stanford University officials are expected to name Gerhard Casper, provost of the University of Chicago, to replace Stanford President Donald Kennedy, who is stepping down amid a scandal over misuse...

A UCLA archeologist has revealed the discovery of a huge stone head of a bird god, 34 feet wide and 16 feet high, on a long-buried pyramid in the Guatemalan...

In this city, the road to hell is paved with parking tickets. It`s a well-lined boulevard-2.4 million tickets are issued a year-that leads to Hades, the traffic bureaus at the...

There is a library where you can check out just about anything. Except a weed whacker. ''If you needed a Weed Eater today, you`d be out of luck,'' says tool...

The California Supreme Court gave unwed fathers more influence over their children`s future by ruling that those willing to care and support for their offspring can stop the mother from...

Three strange-looking wooden sailing vessels, flying the flag of a country that no longer exists, have been stranded in a Seattle backwater for more than 100 days, their crews trying...

It was not so long ago that the U.S. built some of the best rail transit cars in the world, cars so good and technologically advanced that the designs were...