the chronicle

Secretly recording someone else’s conversation is illegal in California, but prosecutors can use the illicit recording as evidence in a criminal case, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Airbnb’s CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorized parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California.

Popular East Coast burger chain Shake Shack has announced another upcoming Bay Area opening for 2020, this time in San Francisco’s Westfield Center at Fifth and Market, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred made it clear to Oakland: Drop your lawsuit or the A’s could relocate.

General manager Mike Mayock and head coach Jon Gruden have done a makeover on the team, benefitting from a haul of draft choices this spring

Brunhilda, a female American bison living in Golden Gate Park’s famous paddock, died Thursday after suffering severe kidney disease.

Popular burger chain Shake Shack will open its first Oakland restaurant at Uptown Station, one of the city’s most prominent buildings, The San Francisco Chronicle reported.

A Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen in San Francisco was shut down this week due to a cockroach infestation, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Seven months after the Texas Department of Criminal Justice announced plans to launch a start-of-the-art denture clinic in response to a Houston Chronicle investigation, inmates from across the system are starting to get some of the first sets of 3D-printed teeth ever made inside a U.S. prison.

A woman has sued the Houston Astros for more than $1 million, saying that a T-shirt cannon fired at a game by the team’s mascot broke her finger.

Social media users in California have posted memorial messages in honor of what is believed to be an albino raccoon.

San Francisco lawmakers avoided having to bend the city’s sanctuary city policy after federal authorities backed off their demands for the law to be relaxed if they wanted help extraditing a rape suspect from Canada.

Peter Magowan, the former principal owner of the San Francisco Giants who was credited with keeping the team from moving away to Florida, died Sunday, the team confirmed on social media. He was 76.

A new era of Giants baseball will come with a new name for the ballpark. AT&T Park now will be known as Oracle Park, the Giants confirmed on Thursday.

Duke University officials say someone painted a Nazi symbol on a mural honoring victims of last month’s Pittsburgh synagogue massacre. University president Vincent Price said in a letter to the school community that a red swastika was painted Sunday night on the tribute to those who died in the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue. The East Campus Bridge...

Jurors who found that agribusiness giant Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer contributed to a school groundskeeper’s cancer are urging a San Francisco judge not to throw out the bulk of their $289 million award in his favor, a newspaper reported Monday.

The Raiders are set to leave Oakland a second time, and will move to a publicly funded stadium in Las Vegas in 2020. Now, the city of Oakland planning to file a lawsuit against the team.

At a divisive time for U.S. immigration policies, a California school board has decided to name a new elementary school after an award-winning journalist who disclosed in 2011 that he had been living in the U.S. illegally. The Mountain View Whisman School District board voted Thursday to name the as-yet-unopened school after Jose Antonio Vargas, bypassing Steve Jobs and other...

A book nearly five decades overdue has been returned to the San Francisco Public Library.

Facebook is expected to sign the biggest lease of the year in San Francisco.