San Francisco has been deemed dead many times over the years. SFGATE editor-at-large Andrew Chamings took a look back at some of the more prominent obituaries. And they've said it an awful lot in ...

The owner of a luxury San Francisco department store took out a full-page ad to bash the city's leadership -- warning that rampant homelessness and drug abuse could force it to shutter after 166 ...

John Chachas, the owner of luxury department store Gump’s San Francisco, wrote an open letter to Governor Newsom, Mayor London Breed, and the city’s Board of Supervisors, pleading for them to ...

In many ways, San Francisco’s downtown is in dire straits. The city’s Union Square neighborhood — once bustling with shoppers, diners, and tourists — has suffered from declining foot ...

A San Francisco Doom Loop Walking Tour promises to show visitors the worst the city has to offer, including crime-riddled streets taken over by the homeless where addicts openly use drugs.

San Francisco's retail hub is turning into a ghost town. The exodus isn't just about crime, experts say. Half of the stores in the downtown hub have closed since 2019, one study showed.

San Francisco's Mayor London Breed, a Democrat, has announced several efforts to tackle crime, homelessness, and drug addiction in the city since taking office in 2018.

San Francisco could be the first major U.S. city to fund reparations for Black Americans as the idea of paying compensation for slavery gains traction across cities and universities.

The most obvious answer is that things are actually going wrong. San Francisco faces multiple overlapping problems: Work-from-home policies emptied out the office buildings downtown, there’s a ...

A San Francisco Police Department officer asks two people sitting on the sidewalk to move during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ week in San Francisco, California, on ...

San Francisco leaders have backed the idea of paying reparations to Black people to atone for slavery and the systemic discrimination that followed. But exactly what those reparations will look ...