The San Francisco Bay is seen through a window in the detention barracks at the Angel Island Immigration Station.

Today, Angel Island is home to abundant natural beauty. But a dark, lesser-known history of racial discrimination is still there to see. In the early 20th century, the government station in San ...

This former quarantine and military station once processed as many as one million immigrants. Now, the picturesque island is one of the San Francisco Bay Area's best urban getaways.

The Embarcadero is San Francisco’s must-visit chunk of waterfront dining and drinking, the three-mile-long seawall playing host to numerous piers and the iconic Ferry Building.

San Francisco Supervisor Gordon Mar proposed a resolution to maintain service to Angel Island to honor the thousands of immigrants who were once detained there.

Hop a ferry to Angel Island State Park is ranked #27 out of 30 things to do in San Francisco. See pictures and our review of Hop a ferry to Angel Island State Park.

From 1910 to 1940, tens of thousands of immigrants entered the West Coast of the United States through the Angel Island Immigration Station. Located in San Francisco's North Bay, not far from Alcatraz ...

Red Rock Island, a big outcropping several miles from San Francisco, has been listed for $25 million. A visit finds, well, not much.

San Francisco is a city designed for artists and wanderers. From North Beach, to Chinatown, to the cold, rough surf of Ocean Beach, to Marin, both visitors and lifelong residents have endless ...

The station was built on Angel Island, a short boat ride from San Francisco, to help enforce the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and other laws aimed at curbing immigration at a time when Americans ...

Back in 1999 the San Francisco Chronicle attempted a definitive figure, coming up with 47.355 square miles, including Alcatraz, Yerba Buena Island, and Angel Island (but not the Farallon Islands.) ...