San Francisco Chronicle

Spring is in the air-and people are ducking. Pointy, multicolored moth shapes, big as windshields and roaring like mopeds, have emerged after the winter. They rocket up, they loop-the-loop-then watch...

Guided by satellite images of Africa`s Great Rift Valley that stretches for 700 miles through the deserts and ancient river beds of Ethiopia, scientists on the ground have discovered at...

She arrives at her all-done-up gallery and office on roller skates, wearing lime-green denim hotpants and a backpack, her corkscrew brown hair bobbing. She`s Rita Hraiz, a 27-year-old fashion designer...

Elmer Bischoff, considered the dean of Bay Area painters, died Saturday after a year`s bout with cancer. He was 74. A member of the Bay Area Figurative School, along with...

A 3-year-old boy who nearly froze to death after becoming lost during an adventure has thawed out and wants to go home. Steven Freitas was found Friday morning near death,...

Lech Walesa is starting to look more presidential and less workerly. According to the weekly newspaper the European, Polish fashion designer Krysyna Wasylkowska was recently called in to create a...

In Riyadh, the staff officers who appear on television every day to talk about the war live in luxury hotels with all the comforts of home, plus room service. You...

Angry manufacturers failed Friday to dissuade California pollution authorities from extending their aggressive war on smog to the back-yard tool shed. The state Air Resources Board, in another nationwide first...

Transcisco Industries Inc., which has specialized in leasing and repairing railway freight cars, is betting $12 million that a luxury passenger train will be profitable. The 16-car train that runs...

The red Magic Marker scrawl across the door of the cafe`s unisex bathroom reads: ''I`m head over heels in love. Does anyone think that love can last forever?'' Beneath it,...