John Anderson, of Forks, scours beaches to collect trash and treasures that land on the Washington shoreline, and has curated 46 years' of pickings in a museum.

The Denver Post in 2022 published a three-part investigation that documented, for the first time, how local villagers dredged ...

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

Today we present the first half of a two-part radio documentary from our friends at SF Public Press, “Exposed,” opening a ...

Now, 100 years later, Nome is remembering its saviors — the sled dogs and mushers who raced for more than five days through hypothermia, frostbite, gale-force winds and blinding whiteouts to deliver ...

A century and a half later, the sinking of the S.S. Pacific remains one of the deadliest maritime disasters in the region’s ...

Before launching into more accounts of disappearing wharves or piers, I need to clarify terminology. Technically speaking, a ...

If you live in the Bay Area — or even just visited — chances are you’ve set foot on a former military base. Most people know ...

While people referred to “Fog Week” or “S.F. Art Week” for years, in 2024 art consultant Emily Counihan created the first San Francisco Art Week website with a centralized schedule and made the ...

The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) recently acquired a bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr by the late artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012). Titled Dr. Martin Luther King ...

Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco Pedestrians walk past the Museum of the African Diaspora on Mission Street in downtown San Francisco. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group) There’s ...