It was San Francisco’s pride—a Beaux-Arts masterpiece crowned with a dome taller than the U.S. Capitol. Then came the earthquake of 1906, and the city’s grandest landmark crumbled into ruins ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of an Examiner series exploring the history of some of San Francisco’s lesser-known historic landmarks. Today, we consider Landmark No. 171 on The City’s local ...

How did the 1906 San Francisco earthquake become one of the deadliest disasters in American history? This video uncovers the destruction, the fires that followed, and how the city was forever changed ...

Created around 1833, Portsmouth Square was the first public meeting place in the city that wasn’t connected to the military ...

It was the end of an era in Chinatown when restaurant Sam Wo shut its doors in January, but now, a group of local investors is determined to keep the legacy of Sam Wo going.

San Francisco celebrates the 150th anniversary of Lotta's Fountain, a historical landmark and communal beacon.

Take a look inside the $91 million renovation of Congregation Emanu-El, the largest synagogue in Northern California.

Operating under the name the Transbay Café and later Al’s Trans-Bay, the bar attracted a diverse clientele that included both ...

As we walked through the square, under a sky smudged with the last light of the day, I realized our experiment had revealed ...

Entering Vancouver’s Old City Cemetery from 13th Street and walking down the well-worn road, it’s hard to miss the tall stone pillar on the left marking Judge Columbia Lancaster’s plot. He traveled he ...

On this day in 1855, William Mulholland, the visionary engineer who brought water to Los Angeles and later carried the burden ...

As part of the fourth annual Doors Open California, tours in Pasadena, Los Angeles and Inland Empire are set from Sept. 13-14 ...