Sam Whiting

Prachet Jain, center, reacts at a street party in San Francisco's North Beach as fans watch Spain and Argentina face off Sunday in the final round of the World Cup. (Brontë Wittpenn/S.F. Chronicle)

San Francisco Zoo’s Chilean flamingos are raising four newly hatched chicks after nearly a decade without babies, and two more eggs are incubating.

Working from a Fairfax garage, Charlie Cunningham built lighter, faster bicycles and helped transform the emerging sport of modern mountain biking.

The exhibition, which uses dirt from all 50 states to colorize flags, draws the curious out onto a pier at Fort Mason.

Three major projects in San Francisco’s Chinatown will close parts of Kearny Street and the Broadway Tunnel, with some traffic disruptions lasting into fall 2027.

Three straight weekends of major street closures begin Saturday in Chinatown, kicking off a wave of traffic disruptions expected to continue through

After a major lead cleanup, San Francisco is seeking a private partner to transform a former Lake Merced gun range into a public recreation site.

Crews demolished the Portsmouth Square footbridge over the weekend as a $73 million Chinatown park redesign moves forward.

Susan Kolander spent her weekend commuting two blocks to a construction zone at the corner of Kearny and Washington streets. She was there at 9:09 a.m.

The street will be a canvas of color that connects the Transbay Terminal to Yerba Buena Gardens as well as sculptural interpretations of benches, bollards and bicycle racks.