Few figures capture San Francisco's reputation for embracing the unconventional quite like Emperor Norton — a 19th century eccentric who was among the first to call for building a bridge between San ...

More than a century after a quirky San Francisco character who called himself Emperor Norton I ordered a bridge be built spanning the bay, a move is under way to name the later-day Bay Bridge in his ...

For a region that rises and falls by its transportation, there's been very little fanfare for the anniversary of one of the greatest prognostications in Bay Area transportation history; it was 150 ...