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What are the best+worst airlines for flying out of SFO? How do California's major airports compare on delays and cancellations?

Our Flight Tracker has been updated for 2025, with exclusive reporting and data analysis from the @sfchronicle.com and Hearst DevHub.

www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
May 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
R.I.P. Bob Uecker. A great baseball man. A great American.

He earned minor league player of the year honors his second year in the majors.

“Juuuuuuust a bit outside”: youtu.be/g_wc9JvTXGc
January 16, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Important work on California's insurance crisis from the @sfchronicle.com newsroom gets spotlighted in this ABC News interview with Chronicle Editor in Chief @garciaruize.bsky.social.

Watch >>> abcnews.go.com/US/video/rep...
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Huge fan of PLAYER A TEAM
January 11, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Prop. 13 has shaped California wealth and real estate for decades. Thanks to the @sfchronicle.com data team, Californians now have a comprehensive map that shows readers how much homeowners are saving in property tax in every city, ZIP and county.

🎁🔗 >>> www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
January 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The National Weather Service’s look-ahead forecast for the Bay Area makes it clear that Santa still has a lot of pull. 🎅🏻
December 23, 2024 at 5:52 PM
R.I.P. Rickey Henderson.

The greatest stolen base artist of all time.

The greatest Oakland Athletic of all time.

The greatest lead-off hitter of all time.

www.sfchronicle.com/sports/athle...
December 21, 2024 at 7:52 PM
These California counties have the worst non-renewal rates for home insurance in the U.S.

Megan Fan Munce and Harsha Devulapalli of @sfchronicle.com break it down from U.S. Senate Budget Committee data >>> www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
December 19, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Easily my favorite headline of the day, via @expressnews.com >>> www.expressnews.com/news/article...
December 18, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Mike Vick to Sac State? Say what?! Hornets trying to go big. @espn has the scoop.
December 16, 2024 at 9:26 PM
SFChronicle Live Storm Map has the latest >>> www.sfchronicle.com/projects/sto...
December 14, 2024 at 2:12 PM
December 14, 2024 at 2:05 PM
If you're in San Francisco this month be on the lookout for the Christmas Cable Car >>> www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancis...
December 13, 2024 at 3:58 PM
Hearst acquires MotorTrend Group, bringing the automotive content company into a portfolio that already includes Car and Driver and Road+Track. 🏁

www.hearst.com/-/hearst-mag...
December 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
Wearing blue but looking red here at the Toyota Center. Let’s go Dubs (@warriorsofficial.bsky.social)!
December 12, 2024 at 3:15 AM
Usage of the Bay Wheels bike share program in S.F. hit a record, and @sfchronicle.com dived into the data to explain where people are riding and what that means for the city. Very cool maps and data reporting. 🚲

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/b...
December 11, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Here's a fun project from the Hearst DevHub and our data teams: Spotify Wrapped for Your City. 🎶🎶

Leila Darwiche and @hannazakharenko.bsky.social used Spotify data and included an AI-powered playlist for each city.

Check out the @expressnews.com version (🎁🔗): www.expressnews.com/projects/202...
December 10, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Current maps of Franklin Fire boundaries in Malibu. It’s moving fast. More than half of city ordered to evacuate.

KTLA: ktla.com/news/local-n...

SFChronicle Fire Tracker: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/cal...

CalFire: www.fire.ca.gov/incidents/20...
December 10, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Yeah, the air in the Bay Area is bad.

Here’s how bad it is in your neighborhood >>> www.sfchronicle.com/projects/cal...
December 7, 2024 at 9:11 PM
“It was very disaster movie”: Why Berkeley went further than other Bay Area cities and ordered wide-ranging evacuations during Thursday’s tsunami warning. ⚠️

Sarah Ravani and Megan Cassidy report from the East Bay >>> www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
December 6, 2024 at 5:14 AM
Now that the tsunami emergency has passed ...

Great to see our interactive Quake Tracker atop the @sfchronicle.com homepage in the middle of the news rush.

Of course, the @sfchronicle.com newsroom dominated, staying focused on pushing accurate information to our readers amid the confusion.
December 5, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Tsunami warning canceled for California and Oregon coasts.
December 5, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Latest details on the Northern California earthquakes:

Quake Tracker with details: www.sfchronicle.com/projects/ear...

Updating breaking story: www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
December 5, 2024 at 7:03 PM
How does AI see San Francisco?

Our @sfchronicle.com team asked four generative AI models to depict today’s S.F., its residents and how the city would look in 2074.

The results? You gotta see some of these.

Check out and share this very cool project ( 🎁 🔗): www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
December 3, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Great example of local visual journalism: The @houstonchronicle.com team put together an in-depth scrollytelling look at the six deadliest storms in Texas since 2000.

🎁 🔗: www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...
December 2, 2024 at 7:53 PM