Keeping BART running is far from easy. Mechanics rely on frankensteined laptops operating Windows 98, train yard scraps, and vintage computer chips.

Bay Area residents were serenaded by the Golden Gate Bridge as wind gusts passed through the region Friday - a new phenomenon that has a relatively simple explanation.

The directive will require people to stay home except for essential travel and will last until April 7, the mayor said.

Statistics like this throw into sharp relief the challenge for Silicon Valley and its leaders in 2019.

Shannon & The Clams

Convention business brings in about $2 billion to San Francisco each year, however, the city’s travel association is finding it harder to convince companies to return because of the amount of trash, feces,...

The Coup

The North [San Francisco] Bay fires and what went wrong. A five-month KQED investigation of what happened the first night of the fires found systemic problems with California’s emergency response procedures. By Marisa Lagos, Sukey Lewis, Lisa Pickoff-White.

The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit surveyed a section of downtown San Francisco to determine the amount of feces, hypodermic needles, and garbage littering the heart of the city.

And, people wonder why I don't even consider moving to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dozens of vessels that brought gold-crazed prospectors to the city in the 19th century still lie beneath the streets.

Royal Jelly Jive

Chris Isaak

Americans see foreigners as the people who steal their jobs, and people who destroy American way of life. My observations in the San Francisco Bay area provides clues for the origin of this common view that is shared by many Americans, since the foreign born population in this region increased significantly in the last decade or two, which also caused the current real estate bubble in the region.

Danny MacRostie

Didn’t do what when they built the most luxurious condo tower in California?! By Wolf Richter.

Biohacking and nootropics have become the latest Silicon Valley trend. By Marisa Kendall. (July 9, 2016)

Faced with a flood of complaints during a messy commute last week, the official Twitter account of BART got frank about the system's woes. Taylor Huckaby, who manned the account that day, explains why he started tweeting truth bombs, and why public transportation in America must be saved.

Guardian photographer David Levene travelled across the San Francisco Bay Area photographing the sites that transformed one of the great cities of the world.

San Jose, in the heart of Silicon Valley, used to be the best place in the country for kids to experience a Horatio Alger, rags-to-riches life. Is it still? By Alana Semuels.