“When it happened, I was like, ‘Oh my God — it’s time,’” the conductor Elim Chan said of her appointment in San Francisco. “It is groundbreaking. It’s another ceiling broken.”

It was unclear whether Sam Altman was home at the time of the attack.

Grand Canyon National Park will remain open to the public during the shutdown.

U.N. Plaza in San Francisco was redesigned around a simple skate park.

Employees of the Hilton Boston Logan Airport were among the roughly 10,000 hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE who went on strike Sunday.

A humpback whale in the Santa Barbara Channel, off the coast of California, last year.

The new talks between Sam Altman and OpenAI’s board were the latest twist in a fast-moving drama at what is perhaps the world’s highest-profile artificial intelligence company.

The memorial for Dianne Feinstein was by turns a celebration of her political efforts, a deeply personal remembrance by her granddaughter, and a testament to her love of all things San Francisco.