The annual trek to the Portola Discovery site will happen on Saturday, Nov. 1. Co-sponsored by the Pacifica Historical Society, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Parks, Beaches and ...

Has the Native American contribution to the Spanish “discovery” of San Francisco Bay been ignored? Some people think so. A petition on the internet says it is time to honor the local tribes who helped ...

We were retracing the footsteps of the first non-natives to visit California. And we were getting a late start. The Portola expedition traveled through today’s San Gabriel Valley on July 30, 1769. The ...

If you've ever sped north through Brea Canyon Road on your way to the 57 freeway, or less likely to Diamond Bar, you've noticed a few things: massive oil derricks standing like silent sentinels along ...

San Francisco is no stranger to two things: odd pronunciations and neighborhood pride. Only tourists pronounce Gough Street as “gow,” and only newcomers are confused when the old guard insists that ...

Trekking along the San Mateo County coast may become a history lesson as well as a recreational activity should an effort to guide hikers along a trail taken by an 18th-century Spanish expedition ...

In the summer and autumn of 2016, Nick Neely walked from San Diego to San Francisco Bay—a six-hundred-and-fifty-mile trek that took him twelve weeks to complete. He was following the trail of the ...

Neighbors streamed in and out of Ruth Wallace's Portola district home Saturday, stopping to take in her impressive backyard garden, sip wine, munch on cheese, chat with one another and enjoy the ...