Last month, the Forsyth Fire took out 13 homes in the area, but people here tell me that Pine Valley is rising from the ashes.

The architect behind Hearst’s San Simeon and many other buildings in California defied the 20th-century image of the tortured ...

Michael Hiltzik was such a newcomer, arriving in California from New York in 1981. He describes himself as “single, in my ...

EXTENSION: Research how the federal government responded to the April 1906 San Francisco earthquake and detail what precedents this set for future government responses to natural disasters.

As the United States chase an end to a decade long wait for a Wimbledon singles champion, it hasn’t always been that way. It ...

The Giant Dipper in Belmont — along with the park itself — has been through some good, and a lot of bad, times. But after a ...

Danny Bell, Goldenvoice’s SVP of talent, launched the Portola festival in San Francisco in the aftermath of the Covid pandemic. He discusses how the festival’s unique identity, inspired by historical ...

San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even more are prone to serious damage according to ...

At 5:12 a.m. on April 18, 1906, San Francisco shook violently. A 7.9 magnitude earthquake struck just 2 miles off the coast.

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

The year was 1925. The new “skyscraper” getting all the buzz was the planned Bank of Italy tower, which became an enduring landmark that has defined downtown San Jose’s skyline for the past century.

In California, where the next "Big One" is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.