Historic Sites and History

22+ hour, 39+ min ago   (321+ words) On Friday, Los Gatos High remembered two graduates who were on United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11. Flight 93 was the flight bound for San Francisco that crashed into an open field in Pennsylvania. Jocelyn Moran reports. Todd Beamer and Mark Bingham were…...

1+ day, 50+ min ago   (309+ words) In the aftermath of the smoke and rubble, departments from across the nation dispatched to New York, including a team from San Francisco fire department. Shortly after the nation's ground stop was lifted, eleven firefighters from San Francisco packed their…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (338+ words) On Friday, the community in Union City gathered to honor the brave women and men on United Airlines Flight 93 that fought back against the hijackers during 9/11. Velena Jones reports. There were 40 people on Flight 93, including 33 passengers and seven crew members;…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (258+ words) Flight 175, a Boeing 767, carried nine crew members and 56 passengers, including five hijackers, when it was hijacked shortly after departing Boston Logan International Airport for Los Angeles, according to Britannica. It struck the South Tower at 9:03 a.m. Caviness learned of the attacks…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (109+ words) Firefighters from the Bay Area are traveling to New York City to honor the lives lost on 9/11 25 years ago. Bay Area firefighters traveling to New York City for 9/11 The first responders also want to honor the hundreds of firefighters who…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (343+ words) A view from a drone shows homes damaged by flash flooding and surrounded by mud and debris along the swollen Trishuli River in Devighat, Nepal, on Sept. 3, 2026. A retired UC Davis dean and his wife, an associate professor at the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (586+ words) When Ron Tong was a boy growing up in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the 1950s, he remembers his mother telling him to be quiet. As the clock struck 11 o’clock at night, she would sit at a small table facing a microphone…...

2+ week, 23+ hour ago   (333+ words) FILE: A flowing river and tower in rural Tibet. On Aug. 26, a catastrophic flash flood swept through the Tibet-Nepal border, washing away entire neighborhoods, destroying homes and bridges and taking out communication lines in the region. Around 2,000 people are reportedly…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1204+ words) A giant pair of scissors along with 8-foot-tall dotted lines guiding where the massive shears should go was painted on the face of the 200-foot Matilija Dam in Ojai, Calif., in 2011. The dotted line runs from the top of the…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (697+ words) View of the Hawk Fire in South Reno, Nev., Aug. 23, 2026. RENO, Nev. — Tens of thousands of people evacuated from their homes over the weekend as the Hawk Fire burned on Peavine Peak outside of Reno near the California-Nevada state line,…...