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Cruise ship passengers recall deaths, confusion, quarantine

SAN FRANCISCO – The last vacation Margrit and Lucio Gonzalez took together began with an ominous delay: a medical emergency on the cruise ship they were set to board. After a four...

DATE: Mar 15, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

Monarch butterfly population moves closer to extinction

SAN FRANCISCO – The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to a record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to ext...

DATE: Feb 24, 2021 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Crews work to repair washed-out scenic highway near Big Sur

SAN FRANCISCO – Crews worked Monday to determine when they can rebuild a section of scenic roadway near Big Sur after it collapsed in torrential rain last week, but the damage was not as bad...

DATE: Feb 1, 2021 | CATEGORY: Travel

Attorney: Deputy in clash with Raptors’ Ujiri has concussion

Accounts of altercation differ

DATE: Jun 18, 2019 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

San Francisco eyes charge to drive its famed Lombard Street

SAN FRANCISCO Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. City and state officials this we...

DATE: Apr 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

‘Ear Hustle’ host freed, but prison podcast will go on

OAKLAND, Calif. – In California, inmates typically are granted parole by doing good deeds or showing they have been rehabilitated by becoming pastors, drug counselors or youth advocates. For...

DATE: Jan 4, 2019 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Solo climber is 1st up mighty El Capitan without ropes

Alex Honnold climb Yosemite wall with hands and feet only

DATE: Jun 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Outdoors

California flood fears renewed

Another Pacific storm bears down

DATE: Feb 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Motorists pulled from flooded roads in California

SAN FRANCISCO – Stranded motorists were pulled from cars stuck on flooded Northern California roads as thunderstorms arrived Sunday as part of a massive winter storm that could be the bigges...

DATE: Jan 8, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tourists swamp San Francisco’s famously curvy Lombard Street

Residents weary of ‘mob scene’

DATE: Oct 8, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

At least 10 stabbed outside California Capitol

White nationalist group, counter-protesters clash

DATE: Jun 26, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

San Francisco fetes reopened art museum

SAN FRANCISCO – The revamped San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopened Saturday with a marching band, jumbo red balloons and red confetti raining down from the top of the new 10-story whit...

DATE: May 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World