Sam Harnett

On January 1, more than 400,000 audio recordings made before 1923 are going to enter the public domain. It includes all sorts of gems that haven't been widely heard for generations.

Two scholars at Stanford have joined forces to recreate what a Christian choir might have sounded like inside Istanbul's Hagia Sophia before it became a mosque in the 1400s.

A dog-walking app named "Wag" just got a $300 million investment from Saudi Arabia. The big business is increasingly crowding out the independent dog walking companies that used to dominate.

Commutes for Americans are getting longer. Nowhere is that more true than near big cities with expensive housing. One Bay area woman commutes 90 miles one way for jobs in the city.

There's a lot of buzz about how big data and now blockchain will "solve climate change." Scientists are concerned that the hype plays into a dangerous idea that there's a technological magic bullet.

Hundreds of San Francisco taxi drivers purchased medallions for $250,000 to drive in the city. Taxi incomes have plummeted after Uber and Lyft took over the streets, and drivers are saddled with debt.

It is early in the fire season, but nearly 1,400 homes have been destroyed in California wildfires. For low income people, without insurance or savings, it is especially difficult to recover.

Firefighters in Northern California are beginning to make progress on containing the massive Carr Fire. But residents say it's difficult to get reliable, up-to-date information about the fire.

The Trump administration announced new tariffs on Chinese goods on Tuesday and China vowed to reciprocate. Also, the investigation of the shooting at YouTube's California offices continues.

A day after the shooting at YouTube's headquarters in San Bruno, Calif., police are investigating the motive of the gunwoman.

Former flower growers in California have been devastated by cheap imported flowers from South America, so local officials in Monterey County passed an ordinance to help them grow marijuana instead.

On the outskirts of the Bay Area, farming communities are hoping that warehouse jobs tied to the e-commerce surge will boost the local economy. But automation is expected to take over many such jobs.

Minimum wage increases in the San Francisco Bay Area have had an impact on the local restaurant industry, according to a study released by Harvard Business School. Restaurants with low or middling Yelp reviews have become more likely to go out of business. Places with high reviews have been unaffected. The study doesn't attempt to determine whether the wage increases have been good for employees or the local economy overall.

A number of companies and universities are cutting IT jobs and shipping them off to India. The practice has drawn scrutiny amid the debate over how H1-B visas for high-skilled workers are used.

Scientists are turning to big data to try to save California's state amphibian. They're using software to comb through hours of recordings to find the red-legged frogs that remain.

High Bridge Arms is shutting down at the end of the month. Gun enthusiasts say proposed city firearms regulations are forcing the store to close, but advocates of the new measures say that's not true.

On the Ashley River, a few miles south of Charleston, S.C., the water is murky and the marsh grass high. A three-man logging crew is cruising on a 24-foot pontoon boat. It's low tide and logs are poking out everywhere.

Hewitt Emerson, owner of the Charleston-based reclaimed wood company Heartwood ...