Megan Fan Munce

San Francisco has suspended rides on Coit Tower's vintage 1934 elevator indefinitely.

The city of Oakland alone will pay $278,000 for 67 instances where it allowed untreated sewage to be released into the San Francisco Bay.

Mayor London Breed is asking city staff to develop a program to identify vulnerable concrete buildings and create new seismic retrofitting standards.

Tokio Marine America Insurance Company and Trans Pacific Insurance Company said in state filings they would withdraw from California starting this summer.

It’s been 118 years since San Francisco’s infamous 1906 earthquake and fires. Despite better technology and preparedness, insurers still fear post-quake fires.

In the year before he died, it was San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s hope that the city would get giant pandas in its zoo. Now, his dream is coming true.

A Recreation and Park commissioner called for a full investigation into the findings of a Chronicle report on the San Francisco Zoo.

Allstate said it plans to resume writing policies “in nearly every part of California” once new regulations are in place. But what would rates look like?

Many Californian homeowners have turned to the FAIR Plan for wildfire coverage after other insurers dropped them. Its rates, already high, are likely to rise.

Expensive, increasingly elusive insurance has made buying a home in California even costlier. Some say they feel “at the mercy of the insurance industry.”