Away from the main tourist tracks, these little-travelled roads reveal a wilder, more contrasting and more intimate California. From tall mountains to arid deserts, here are six routes to take at your ...

The Plaza Hotel stands as a two-story testament to San Juan Bautista’s days as a crucial stagecoach stop on the route between San Francisco and Los Angeles. You can wander through rooms that once ...

The National Park Service has filed that the former headquarters of Sunset Magazine in Menlo Park is eligible for a historic listing, making it harder for a developer to build towers reaching 461 feet ...

In the heart of California’s Central Valley, golden fields stretch toward the horizon and history lingers in the dry air. Tucked away near Earlimart is a remarkable treasure most Californians have ...

The centerpiece is the stunning 3,720-square-foot lodge featuring timbers sourced from a historic train station ...

On this day in 1915, the town of Castaic was officially “born” with the completion of the historic Ridge Route, a winding mountain ...

In Berkeley, on and off the UC campus, Indigenous history gets glossed over along with the school's scandalous role in its ...

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake ...