🚨 ALERT! 🚨 SFGATE + San Francisco Chronicle are separate publications with independent newsrooms! To hammer this fact home, Peter Hartlaub and I are hosting Bike to the Movies at 1pm on 11/3 4 Star Theater where we'll mention this over and over while having the best time ever. 🧵👇

1/ "Oh I had no idea they were separate." Crazy right? Once SFC launched a paywalled site, in 2019 Hearst was like, "Uh, maybe we should just keep SFGATE free + make it a separate site? And maybe SFGATE covers all of CA?? And hires Drew Magary??" So we did that. An explainer:

This is a fascinating story and a great read. People have been looking for this island for over 200 years. How does an entire island just fall off maps and go missing?

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 SFGATE, now the West Coast's largest news site, is going on another HIRING SPREE. We're adding a: 🗳️ Senior Calif. Politics Reporter 📰 Breaking News Editor ✍️ News Reporter I wrote about why and what we're looking for here: sfgate.com/news/article/s…

Come join us!

Developers say Homewood will always be public. Tahoe locals don’t trust them. My latest for @sfgate. sfgate.com/renotahoe/arti…

🚨 WE. ARE. HIRING. 🚨 📰 Breaking News Editor 💻 Part-time Homepage Editor 🗳️ Senior Calif. Politics Reporter 🌲 Contributing Parks Editor, PNW 🌵 Contrib. Parks Editor, Southwest 🗻 Contrib. Parks Editor, Big Sky Country 🟥 Stanford Summer Intern 🟨 Cal Summer Intern 🧵👇

In which I talk to chelsea about that now-viral LA (alleged) rental price gouging spreadsheet sfgate.com/la/article/la-…

One local described leaving the Noyo Bridge as it is as 'socially irresponsible' sfgate.com/northcoast/art…

Tahoe is a very expensive place to get married, with a six-digit-budget barrier to entry. This hotel is one of the most exclusive venues in Tahoe. And it just canceled a slate of weddings, sending couples into a tailspin. sfgate.com/renotahoe/arti… via SFGATE

good morning! the latest w Ashley Harrell. "“I think the public needs to know that if they are going to visit a national park that they should bring their own toilet paper.” sfgate.com/national-parks…

Growing up on the farm in England I heard stories about the mysterious shotgun deaths of three siblings a few miles down the valley. I went to the old farmhouse where the bodies were found to investigate the tragedy, and my childhood, for Longreads longreads.com/2025/03/06/mad…

A few months ago I set out to write a story about Hippie Hill’s 4/20 party, thinking it was the original 4/20 fest. Oh man, I was so wrong. This is the real story of how 4/20 became an international holiday. sfgate.com/cannabis/artic…

“With 16 months to go until the midterms, the biggest obstacle for Democrats is not necessarily generating opposition against Kiley, but rather sustaining momentum and energy to turn out voters in 2026.” New from me and our Lake Tahoe editor in SFGATE sfgate.com/politics/artic…