Wesley Severson

People who love the creative and technical cuisine from the fine dining pop-up Anomaly will be happy to know that the owner, chef Mike Lanham, is about to open a permanent location.

Sam’s Downtown Feed & Pet Supply, at 759 West San Carlos Street, first opened in 1986, but the legacy of the family who runs the pet and farm supply store is more than 150 years old, and it once housed a basement speakeasy.

Acclaimed Bay Area bagel shop Boichik Bagels, which got national recognition as being among the best in the country, even compared to New York City standards, has opened a new outpost on the Peninsula.

The new Andytown Coffee location in the Richmond District, across the Great Highway from Ocean Beach, is now open. The sprawling space is the company’s fifth location and the biggest by far.

One of San Francisco’s busiest shopping areas is losing another big retailer: The Container Store. But it's just moving elsewhere in SoMa.

A massive late-night fire has destroyed a piece of San Jose’s history, as the 154-year-old Graves Mansion went up in flames.

The Valley Transportation Authority could activate the eminent domain process as soon as this week to push ahead with the still-very-far-off BART extension project in San Jose.

The long, arching Aquatic Park Municipal Pier at the western end of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf could be shut down for good following an earthquake last month.

The developers behind the project, which faced a huge wave of backlash from pretty much everyone, have pulled out of the project in an area adjacent to the Rockridge neighborhood.

Even more questions are now swirling in the investigation surrounding a controversial video released last month of a bikini-clad woman getting out of a San Jose Fire Department engine and walking into the Pink Poodle strip club.

The San Jose Mayor’s race has finally been decided, a week and change after Election Day, with rookie City Councilmember Matt Mahan barely edging out a veteran politician in the South Bay and current Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez.

San Jose police issued an astronomical 720 citations at an illegal weekend sideshow, and they are now revealing the new tactic that allowed them to bust so many stunt drivers and spectators.

There’s about to be another option on the table for great pizza in the Mission District, in the former Mozzeria space on 16th.

Hayes Valley has a new establishment in which to grab a drink and a bite and unwind, from a pair of industry vets.

Police in Palo Alto are looking for a group of criminals that they are calling the Dinnertime Home Burglary Crew.

It appears to be becoming a new retail real estate trend: Large shuttered drug stores in San Francisco that offer loads of space are being reenvisioned into smaller chunks of space for retail or offices.

A coffee shop and wine bar that focuses on Oakland’s Black community is now open in the Uptown neighborhood, but it's only open on Fridays for now.

An Italian restaurant institution in San Francisco is about to expand to the East Bay for the first time in the business's storied history.

After a month-long civil corruption trial, a grand jury has found Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith guilty of all six corruption and willful misconduct counts that she had been facing.

A pop-up specializing in muffalettas, the large cold-cut-and-olive-salad sandwich originating in New Orleans and made with Sicilian sesame bread, will soon open its own brick-and-mortar shop in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury.

The city of San Jose has broken a record that no city would ever want to break. So far this year, 30 pedestrians have been hit and killed by cars.

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has voted to confirm a new county CEO, but the closed-door vote and the way it was announced is raising concerns — and has a lot of people upset.

A chef who made a name for herself a decade ago by hosting dinners inside her apartment in San Francisco featuring the Malaysian noodle dish laska, a spicy noodle soup, has turned her hit pop-up business into a brick-and-mortar restaurant.

SoCal's Slater’s 50/50 will be opening up its first Northern California location in South San Jose at the Westfield Oakridge mall off Blossom Hill Road later this month.

Seven people are in jail accused of running underground casinos and much more inside two San Jose homes.