Carl Nolte

The shorter days, the dark mornings and the early sunsets in October make people realize it is time to make up their minds. Time is moving on. You can feel it in the air.

OPINION: “A lot of older San Franciscans think Gen Z is ruining the city,” but that’s not true, columnist Carl Nolte writes.

OPINION: “AI seems to have taken over the way a lightning storm takes over the sky. All at once,” columnist Carl Nolte writes about the artificial intelligence boom in San Francisco.

It was time to leave the U.S. and all its dreary news behind and head to Dublin for rejuvenation.

The old man and the sea: How a Bay Area sailor kept a 20-year-old promise

What’s it like to be a tourist in a tourist town? We found out with a trip to Santa Fe, N.M.

The Top of the Mark is where World War II memories live. And you can toast them — with Old Crow bourbon.

NATIVE SON: We are lucky to be able to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge, to see firsthand what it is like, to feel it move, to look down at the tide rips.

On a good day you can be aboard a ship and unpacking your stuff in less than an hour after leaving your San Francisco doorstep.

OPINION: 250 years is a big milestone, but any story about exploration comes with baggage: colonialism and the fatal impact of Europeans on natives. So there will be no celebration, Carl Nolte...