A Georgia man has traveled across the U.S. to recreate a old family photograph taken on Angel Island. Gerald Layson, 74, flew with his family to visit the same spot where his father, James Alton ...
As day trips go, this one is spectacular. You arrive by water with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entire Bay. There’s hiking, biking and barbecuing. And it all starts with one charismatic sea ...
An emergency boat is commandeered to transport campers off Angel Island on Sep. 17, 2024. Photo by Abigail Van Neely. If you remember wondering why Mission Local broke the news of the Angel Island ...
When it comes to islands in the San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz's famed jail hogs all the attention. But sitting pretty just beyond the prison isle is another Bay Area gem: the often-overlooked Angel ...
The history of blimps, security towers, drones, ground cameras, experimental robots and other surveillance technologies used by U.S. authorities to watch the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border is on ...
From Lookout Bench on its south perimeter, you can look across the San Francisco waterfront to the Golden Gate Bridge and take in miles of water, passing ships and all the landmarks. And feel like it ...
A recent video showed a coyote swimming in San Francisco Bay. State parks officials believe the coyote was returning to Angel Island after a roughly one-mile swim from Tiburon. About 14 coyotes are ...
As the Trump administration cracks down on immigration, a new exhibit on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay draws attention to the “virtual wall” that already looms over the U.S.–Mexico border — ...
Off the coast of Tiburon, jutting out of the San Francisco Bay, is Angel Island. Accessible only by a ferry, it’s a large, hilly state park that offers sweeping views and miles of hiking trails. But ...
The majority of immigrants who passed through California’s immigration station, Angel Island, were from China and Japan—and tens of thousands of them were detained there. A sweeping view of the Angel ...
The wooden house on the hill is haunted, and those who once endured its wrath are now the ones holding the doors wide open. Come inside, and you can almost hear the echoes of the suffering and smell ...