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As I step inside Hella Novella, a recently opened comic book shop in the Mission, I realize that with my arms outstretched, I can touch both walls of graphic novels at the same time.

“As far as I know, they were the first cats live on the Internet,” Jeff Schwartz says. He’s talking about Petunia and Web, the cats that used to live in his Mission District apartment. Back in 1995, Schwartz came up with the idea to point a webcam at his pets while he was away at school.

To the untrained eye, Skipper and Ping look like a typical king penguin couple.

John Reber and engineer LH Nishkian proposed building a causeway nearly four tenths of a mile wide stretching across the bay with 2,000-foot-long channels at either terminus. In effect, it was an elongated island, a massive earthen barrier turning the bay south of China Basin and Alameda into a big lake.

The hunt for a man suspected of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old womanSunday night and injuring her 26-year-old sister at the MacArthur BART station in Oakland stretched into Monday, as police scoured the area and reviewed surveillance videos of the station and a train car on which the victims were riding.

Honestly, we don’t object.

There are worse songs in the world. Songs that denigrate women, songs that glorify racism, anything that appeared on Paris Hilton’s album. But in terms of widespread, ubiquitous hate, it’s hard to top the Kars4Kids jingle.

Brock Turner, the former Stanford swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman outside of a campus fraternity party, was released from a Santa Clara County jail early Friday after serving half of a six-month sentence.

The Warriors’ point guard got all 131 first-place votes, finishing with more than double the points of second-place Kawhi Leonard and third-place LeBron James.

Uber is launching an effort to accept drivers regardless of certain criminal backgrounds, and will help those with felony convictions find means of reducing their charges.

No one tracks how many cities have banned or limited sledding, but the list grows every year.

Zen is having a moment, in the tech world at least. For starters, there is Zenefits, the benefits startup; Zenfolio for photo hosting; and ZenPayroll for, well, payroll.

Addressing the controversial and fast-growing practice of ad-hoc hotels in homes, San Francisco Board of Supervisors agreed to legalize but rein in short-term residential rentals by passing the so-called “Airbnb law” 7-4 Tuesday.

A woman died at Burning Man after she was run over by a bus carrying participants, officials said Thursday. The victim’s name has not yet been released.

Comcast plans to turn thousands of wireless Internet routers in private homes in the Bay Area into publicly available Wi-Fi hotspots.

Airbnb, the fast-growing website that lets people rent out their homes or rooms to travelers, took a giant step toward legalizing itself in San Francisco with an announcement Monday evening that it will begin paying the city’s 14 percent hotel tax by this summer.

Apple’s potential forays into automobiles and medical devices, two industries worlds away from consumer electronics, underscore the company’s deep desire to move away from iPhones and iPads and take big risks.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A poker player who left $300,000 in the back seat of a Las Vegas taxi made good on his promise this week, handing over a $10,000 reward to the honest cabbie who returned the stash. Yellow Checker Star Cab Company CEO Bill Shranko confirmed Friday that Gerardo Gamboa had been paid […]

A 13-year-old boy walks near his home with a toy rifle. Two sheriff’s deputies roll up behind him in a squad car, spot the authentic-looking gun and confront him. As the boy turns, one of the officers fires several rounds, killing the boy.