The ordinance prohibits the sale of electronic cigarettes in the city until marketing for the devices are approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

It was a beautiful winter day in San Francisco, and Zoe was grooving to the soundtrack of the roller-skating musical Xanadu as she rode an e-scooter to work. The 29-year-old tech worker had just passed the Uber building when, without warning, a homeless man jumped into the bike lane with his dog, blocking her path.

It looks like regular ice cream. It tastes like regular ice cream. But at $20 per pint, it’s definitely irregular ice cream. Emeryville company Perfect Day began releasing its first product on Thursday, July 11: an animal-free ice cream containing real dairy. Perfect Day creates dairy proteins through fermentation, which can then lead to cheese, yogurt and other dairy products without the environmental footprint of cows. It’s the first product of its kind on the market.

San Francisco’s most infamous neighborhood through the lens of Pieter Hugo

On Friday, San Francisco became the first American city to ban smokeless tobacco—chewing tobacco and “moist inhalable snuff”—at sports venues. The new ordinance, signed by Mayor Ed Lee, goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2016. Violators will be asked to leave the playing fields (where cigarette and cigar smoking is already banned), the Associated Press reports.

It's cold at Fort Baker. The water is frigid and the breeze chilly. It's quiet, except for the lapping of waves along the muddy shoreline. Every time a person jumps from the Golden Gate Bridge, his or her broken corpse is brought to Fort Baker by solemn sailors of the U.S. Coast Guard. There, the dead are met by an investigator from the Marin County coroner's office, which is responsible for tying up the loose ends of the jumper's life. Identification, notification, autopsy and death notice.

Tiny cracks found on some of the rods on the new Bay Bridge tower potentially endanger the rest of the more than 400 remaining fasteners that secure the tower to the foundation in an earthquake, Caltrans officials said Tuesday...

The photographer Joe Samberg remembers how drugs destroyed the Telegraph Avenue scene.

At least 350 entire homes listed on Airbnb appear to be full-time vacation rentals, bolstering claims by activists that the service removes scarce housing from the city's limited inventory. By Caroline Said. First of five parts, also at the link.

San Francisco by Drone Travel by drone to San Francisco, in Northern California U.S.A This Drone video compilation is dedicated to all the inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The notorious 50-block swath of downtown is seeing an influx of tech companies and gentrification’s attendant indicators – residents are trying to combat the sudden popularity of their area with education and appeals for integration

Janitors everywhere are rejoicing. San Francisco city officials are implementing a new "pee-proof" paint around the city to combat the persistent problem of public urination. Public Works crews have painted 10 walls in the city with a special UV-coated, urine-repellent paint, according to CNN affiliate KPIX. Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru was inspired by a project in Hamburg, Germany, where walls in a night club district were coated with the liquid-repellent paint.

City officials are confident that pee-proof walls will thwart al fresco urination, one splash at a time.

Luke Iseman has figured out how to afford the San Francisco Bay area. He lives in a shipping container. The Wharton School graduate’s 160-square-foot box has a camp stove and a shower made of old boat hulls. It’s one of 11 miniature residences inside a warehouse he leases across the Bay Bridge from the city, where his tenants share communal toilets and a sense of adventure.

And not much is being done about it.

The PKD Foundation is an organization committed to discovering treatments and a cure for polycystic kidney disease and improving the lives of all it affects.

A short sharp earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay Area, but there are no reports of injuries. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 4.0 magnitude quake struck Monday morning and was centered just north of Piedmont, near Berkeley. It was felt in downtown San Francisco, along the Peninsula...

Lighthouses may have originally been designed to guide sailors, but these historic relics also serve as gorgeous beacons for a vista-filled roadtrip around the Bay Area.

I must admit I was confused by the toast trend when I first heard about it. My roommate was going on and on about how she wanted to go to a place with…

Pop-Tart beer is the latest breakfast food brew craze. San Francisco brewer 21st Amendment created a new flavor of beer that tastes like a Pop-Tart. It's an homage to the history of its new facility, which was formerly a Kellogg's factory.