San Francisco-based rock band the Botticellis were named not after the Renaissance painter, but for a surfing term they coined as kids.

Job growth on the Peninsula and throughout the broader San Francisco metropolitan area was robust in April despite the state's housing-related economic slowdown, a new report revealed Friday.

As gay and lesbian couples made plans to marry, activists opposed to the California Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage said on Friday they would escalate efforts for a constitutional ...