Frank Taylor, the longtime San Jose redevelopment director who died this month at 87, lived and reigned through a welter of contradictions. He was a charming man — a Boston native with Tip O’Neill’s ...

People walking by San Francisco City Hall last Tuesday might be wondering why they were seeing red. Well, ponder no more. The ...

The late Chronicle columnist Herb Caen called North Beach the heart of San Francisco. A neighborhood group is now hoping to ...