The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 is the deadliest earthquake in the history of the United States, and remains high on the ...

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.

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...

Impact: The 1933 earthquake was Southern California’s deadliest in the modern record, leaving nearly 120 dead and causing $40 million in property damage. In the past, this fault has started ...

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

With a declining population, tariffs and some legacy businesses closing, San Francisco's Chinatown has a new plan to survive.

Still, A Night to Remember is widely considered the best depiction of the Titanic disaster on film, boasting stark realism, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Dances With Films, the festival that describes itself as “defiantly independent,” has announced its jury and ...

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