Urban planners from Mexico City to Toulouse are adopting the high-flying mode of transit. Will it catch on elsewhere?

Andrew Hallidie's work on the “endless wire rope way,” issued to him on January 17, 1861, led to cable cars a decade later.

San Francisco and its hotel industry are partnering to beef up security around this week's 43rd annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare ...

San Francisco's cable car system is the last of its kind in the United States, given the title of a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The cable car was conceived after Andrew Smith Hallidie ...

The city is the epicenter of an anti-progressive movement—financed by the ultrawealthy—that aims to blur political lines and ...

On Jan. 17, 1995, a powerful earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, and the surrounding area, killing about 5,500 people.

We had not visited San Francisco in 20 years to write a travel story, so we were quite overdue when we decided to go in ...

He has a long rap sheet of breaking into cars ... out of San Francisco County Jail after less than four months in custody. "I have to say that this is a failure of the criminal justice system ...