In the heart of California, the San Andreas Fault lies like a ticking time bomb, silently building pressure for over a century. Stretching more than 1,200 kilometers, this massive fault marks the ...

One person died in a fire at a home in San Francisco's Richmond District on Friday afternoon, according to the city's Fire Department.

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

On June 4, however, as Alan left an immigration hearing in Lower Manhattan, he was handcuffed by masked federal agents and ...

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

Dennis Georgatos, a longtime sports writer for The Associated Press and the San Jose Mercury News and author of multiple ...

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.

A minor, 3.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

San Francisco has released new data that shows 24 city-owned buildings are at risk of collapsing from an earthquake. Even more are prone to serious damage according to ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.