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 ...

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake struck near San Jose on Tuesday afternoon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake ...

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.

REDDING, Calif. - An earthquake shook the Redding area early Friday morning. The quake, which struck just before 4 a.m., registered a magnitude of 3.6. It was centered near Highway 299, just west of ...

A magnitude 2.7 earthquake struck near the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday. The quake was reported at about 12:22 p.m. and was detected a little over a mile northeast of Sherman Oaks, according to t… ...

Shaking from a magnitude-2.7 earthquake was felt across Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and other parts of Southern California. The earthquake was reported at 12:22 p.m. in the Sherman Oaks area.

Researchers at UC San Diego on Monday put a 10-story, cold-formed steel building to the test, simulating how the structure would move in the midst of a major earthquake.