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Firefighters make progress battling Mountain Fire near Redding

Kathleen Pender

Despite soaring prices, some Bay Area homes still have recession-era property tax break

Bay Area home prices may be through the roof, but about 50,000 properties in the Bay Area, or 2% of the total, still have temporary property tax reductions granted during the housing bust.

Now that the realestate bubble has deflated, Brentwood like most East County communities finds itself over developed. The Shadow Lakes neighborhood off Balfour Ave has one special draw for buyers, the Shadow Lakes Golf course snakes it's way through the neighborhood offering panoramic views. Photographed Wednesday April 23, 2008 in Brentwood Calif, Photo By Lance Iversen / San Francisco Chronicle

WILLIE BROWN: Not only will universal background checks not solve the gun violence problem, but touting them as the answer to mass shootings could play right into President Trump’s hands.

Randall Ward buys a Paradise High School football game program from cheerleader Averie Greenwald at their game against Williams, in Paradise, Calif., Friday, Aug. 23, 2019. This is the first game for the school since a wildfire killed 86 and destroyed 19,000 buildings, including the homes of most of the Paradise players. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Sweet deal: Warriors join forces with Candytopia to create Hooptopia
For anyone who has ever dreamed of shooting like Stephen Curry, dunking like Klay Thompson or celebrating at a championship parade like Draymond Green, the Warriors are developing a way to make this a reality. Or a virtual reality, anyway.

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Google Megaplan

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Impact HUB Oakland

Don’t You Die On Me!

The Flight Deck, Oakland

Herbie Hancock, Kamasi Washington

Greek Theatre, Berkeley

10:09 PM

49ers’ undrafted rookie Azeez Al-Shaair has plenty of motivation
49ers linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair has dealt with extreme poverty, and the realization he’d have to barge through the NFL’s back door to realize his dream.

Sports Columnists

San Francisco Giants
Bochy's quest for 2000
Bruce Bochy is on track to become the 11th manager to reach 2,000 career wins. Will he make it?

Some of these pens are more expensive than the sword
People are actually using fountain pens to write with, of all things, and hundreds of fountain pen fans came to a Redwood City hotel to buy pens, sell pens, gape at $30,000 pens, scribble with pens and tell each other that Grandpa had the right idea about pens.

Newsroom Voices

Visual Essay

The Chronicle's best Bay Area photos of July 2019

AG William Barr promotes immigration judges with high asylum denial rates
All six immigration judges promoted to an appellate body by Attorney General William Barr have higher asylum-denial rates than the national average. The new appeals judges, who will now make up more than a quarter of the appellate board, were appointed as the Trump administration works to speed up the immigration courts and narrow migrants’ use of asylum cases to come to the U.S.

Political Columnist

Joe Garofoli
Tom Steyer pushes anti-corporate message in SF talk
Billionaire former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer pushed back against accusations Monday from his presidential campaign rivals that he’s buying a...

Google’s San Jose megaplan: Up to 25,000 new jobs, 5,000 homes
Google’s Diridon Station plan calls for 6.5 million square feet of offices, between 3,000 and 5,000 new homes, and 500,000 square feet of retail, hotel and other cultural uses, along with 15 acres of parks.

Business Columnists

The ultimate chaat truck crawl
Travelogue of a chaat truck crawl in Sunnyvale. Featuring Delhi Chaat, New Delhi Chaat, Delhiwala Chaat and Bombay Chaat.

Daniel Handler examines SF's changing culture in 'Bottle Grove'
Late in 2014, when the successful children’s books author — known for “A Series of Unfortunate Events” — began writing his latest book, “Bottle Grove,” he noticed an unusually wild change of scenery in his neighborhood.

Food & Wine Critics

Vote: The future of San Francisco's historic Cliff House

Interactive Map
Mapping cinematic wrath, from 'Godzilla' to 'San Andreas'
Nearly a movie per year in the 21st century has featured S.F. under attack. We mapped out all the damage —see if your house would survive.

Datebook Columnists

In the final weeks of summer, what’s on your camp menu?
On camping trips, among the pleasures of the morning, I count the furious cheer of birdsong, the glimmer of the dew and the supremely satisfying...

See, do, eat
Bay Area summer fun guide
If you’re bored this summer, you’re doing it wrong. Check out The Chronicle’s recommendations for the best ways to enjoy your time.

A look back at 50 years of the Gap
In 1969, Donald and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco in the Timothy Pflueger-designed El Rey Theatre building, selling apparel like Levi’s jeans, vinyl records and a vision of casual living that has become a signature of San Francisco in the five decades since.

Outdoors

Tom Stienstra
As crowds diminish, Prairie Creek Redwoods stands tall
With schools starting up across the Bay Area and Northern California, the Redwood Empire is the first major recreation region with campsites...

Guides

Tom Stienstra
The Ultimate Bay Area Hikes and Outdoors Guide

San Francisco love story: A hooker, her gambling man and a hanging
In Mission Dolores cemetery a tombstone bears the names of Charles and Arabella Cora, who were married for exactly two hours. It is a monument to a tragic only-in-San Francisco love story, involving a beautiful young prostitute, her rakish gambler consort, and the largest vigilante movement in U.S. history.

Chronicle Covers
Explore the stories behind classic front pages
The San Francisco Chronicle came into existence more than 150 years ago. See classic newspaper pages from our archive for every day of the year.

Bay Area park experts share advice, secrets for spectacular exploration
With one little secret or two, you can make nearly any park your own, say three explorers who have ventured to as many Bay Area parks and trails as anybody. Shelly Lewis, Ned MacKay and John Dell’Osso provided their insights, favorite parks, spots and advice.

Opinion Columnists