Ever wonder why San Francisco is so steep? There's actually a historical reason for that. Here's why San Francisco isn't as ...

Driving around Carver County with nothing but an 1880 map, Lou Longhenry kept to his mission: Find historic one-room schoolhouses. Results? “Not too many,” the San Francisco Township retiree said, ...

The Department of Physics and Biophysics at USD teaches students to explore the interactions of matter and energy from the simplicity of a molecule or a swinging pendulum to the complexity of nuclear ...

I grew up in the Mission District of San Francisco, a blue-collar working-class district named after the first Catholic church established in 1776 called Mission Dolores (Mission of Sorrows).

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Alameda County Board of Supervisors selected Superior Court Judge Ursula Jones Dickson as the county's new district attorney at the end of a nearly four-hour special meeting ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week requiring the federal government to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on official maps, a move that could take ...

Google Maps will display the name “Gulf of America” instead of the “Gulf of Mexico” for U.S. users once official government sources are updated to reflect the name change ordered by ...

Soon, the name change will appear on Google Maps. Trump issued an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. In a post on X, Google explained that it has a "longstanding ...

In the same month that multiple fires devastated Los Angeles County, the Border 2 Fire sparked and set over 6,000 acres ablaze in San Diego County, prompting more evacuation orders, according to ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...