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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The year was 1925. The new “skyscraper” getting all the buzz was the planned Bank of Italy tower, which became an enduring ...