A broken system is keeping California homes underinsured. Millions are at risk California's biggest insurance companies are using faulty algorithms and flawed processes to estimate rebuilding costs — leaving millions of homeowners unprotected from disaster.

And our latest kicks off a new series on the underinsurance crisis in California and how it effects homeowners in some of the most wildfire prone areas. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

100 best restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area, ranked The San Francisco Chronicle’s restaurant critics rank the best places to eat in the Bay Area, from 100 to No. 1. See what’s on the list.

San Francisco's Top 100 restaurants returned after a 5-year hiatus! The result is a culmination of over 6 months of planning and design iterations. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

The mystery shocked San Francisco. What led to the death of a girl found in a driveway Jázmin sought care in California's for-profit psychiatric hospitals. But rather than help, they subjected her to chaotic conditions.

The investigations team tackled a complex look into California psychiatric hospitals, with an equally complex design. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Before-and-after photos show destruction of Altadena’s Lake Avenue landmarks When the Eaton Fire ripped through Altadena, it left many of the street’s landmarks and businesses in ruins, while skipping over others almost entirely.

We experimented with new ways to show the devastating destruction of the LA fires in early January. This is just one of several visually intense stories published in the weeks following the fires. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...

Here to give some #kudos to our @sfchronicle.com design and development crew. We've been working on some massive projects the last few months and I can't speak highly enough about working with the Chronicle's talented group of reporters, designers and editors. Here's a small taste of 2025 so far:

Grid of AI-generated images of San Francisco

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...

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