The buyer is the John Muir Land Trust, which locked in its bid prior to proceedings, Pierce confirmed to SFGATE. The money from the purchase of the seized island will likely be used to pay off ...

Sonoma State University is eliminating its entire Division II athletics program as part of a massive round of layoffs and program cuts ahead of a larger-than-expected budget deficit. Interim ...

Katie Dowd is the SFGATE managing editor. She started her career at SFGATE in 2011 shortly after graduating from UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in the Bay Area.

Andrea Nguyen, the Santa Cruz-based, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and doyenne of Vietnamese cooking, told SFGATE that Phan will be remembered for his groundbreaking efforts and ...

SFGATE could not reach Ng for comment before publication. Ng and his brother Ronny Ng opened the Daly City Koi Palace in 1996, serving not only soup dumplings but also seafood, classic ...

Yet another upscale retailer has pulled out of the beleaguered San Francisco Centre mall downtown. “It’s not goodbye,” read signs taped to the glass doors of the Michael Kors store on the ...

“Most of the stores we talk to now say we don’t even have to sell them, they kind of sell themselves,” Walavalkar recently told SFGATE. “People come looking for them.” Small joints have ...

The shrew hasn’t been trapped or recorded in two decades, Subramanyan told SFGATE: “So it’s very possibly one of the most poorly known mammal species in California.” The Mount Lyell ...

A San Francisco resident is the second child in the United States to contract the viral bird flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to SFGATE. A CDC spokesperson ...

spokesperson Dave Mason told SFGATE. The Contra Costa County Coroner’s Office took possession of the remains, and an investigation is ongoing. “There is no threat to public safety,” Mason said.

(The San Francisco Chronicle and SFGATE are both owned by Hearst but have separate newsrooms.) Thao’s home was one of four locations raided by the FBI in June 2024, though the agency has not ...

For Lemley, the content moderation changes, internal policy shifts and public comments all added up, he told SFGATE. “I decided that I could not in good conscience be associated with a company ...