In November of 1876, the United States witnessed the closest presidential election in history. Rutherford B. Hayes was the ...

A 3.4-magnitude earthquake rattled the Northern California area, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The 4-mile deep quake ...

Officials with the U.S. Geological Survey said an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.4 hit in the South Bay early ...

Any student of California history knows the story of the 1906 earthquake. San Francisco was torn apart by the quake itself, ...

That striking entrance, and its wide, grand staircase, is what attracted Stanford to the home in the first place.

Preparedness isn’t the sole responsibility of local, state or national governments. While they all play major roles, unless ...

The 153-year-old California Historical Society is winding down operations in San Francisco and is slated to transfer its vast ...

The fervor over San Francisco’s glorious new baseball park was cresting. It didn’t matter that the first game was delayed several weeks by a tough winter. When Opening Day at Ewing Field came on May ...

It wouldn’t take much, the fan explained, just some radioactive material inside the players, who would then undergo a ...

Giannini built on this good will, turning his baby bank into San Francisco’s biggest, branching out across California and further, earning the appellation “J.P. Morgan of the West.” The earthquake ...

The true cost of the immigration policy can be measured in the generations of Chinese Americans who were never born.