Angel Island

Friday marked 140 years since Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, restricting Chinese laborers from coming to the U.S. and preventing Chinese immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens. Audrey Asistio reports.

Friday marked 140 years since Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, restricting Chinese laborers from coming to the U.S. and preventing Chinese immigrants from becoming U.S. citizens.

After decades sitting abandoned to decay and a near date with the wrecking ball, the Angel Island Immigration Station historic hospital has opened as a museum to the public for the first time — following a $12 million, 14-year restoration.

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.

While the operator of the Blue and Gold fleet has applied to discontinue its service from San Francisco to Angel Island due to the COVID-19 health emergency, another operator wants the public to know it is continuing to serve tourists and those seeking a recreation getaway on the historic location in the middle of the Bay.

Blue and Gold Fleet service from San Francisco to Angel Island may end due to declining sales during the coronavirus pandemic.

Asian Pacific America: The former Public Health Service hospital at the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation will house the Angel Island Immigration Museum — a place of memory and personal discovery, where guests can explore the issues, history, and stories of immigration through the Pacific Coast.

Officials on Thursday held a “groundmaking” ceremony for a park that will eventually connect the Presidio of San Francisco with Crissy Field.

A member of one of Mexico’s wealthiest families was arrested on manslaughter charges after his 11-year-old son died on a family boating trip in the San Francisco Bay, police said Monday.

Malou Nubla explores Angel Island, which formerly was immigration station, army base and now is a hidden gem for hiking and other outdoor activities. As seen on California Live, Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2019.

Two gray whales were found dead under separate circumstances in San Francisco Bay waters this week, according to the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.

Twenty-three years ago Wednesday, “one of the strongest storms ever to strike the West Coast” walloped the Bay Area with several inches of rain and wind gusts in excess of 100 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

A disturbing number of dead whales washing up on Bay Area shores after likely collisions with commercial ships has raised alarms for environmental interests trying to protect them.

A 44-foot dead grey whale washed up on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay Wednesday morning.

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A dead whale that cropped up in the San Francisco Bay on Saturday is tied to a pier on Angel Island as scientists wait to perform a necropsy.

Nearly $3 million in state funding will help complete the restoration of a former hospital on Angel Island and the development of exhibits telling the story of the people who passed through during the island’s term as an immigration detention center, officials announced Thursday.

Lyrinda Snyderman spotted four or five huge humpbacks hoisting their large black, barnacled heads out of the water near Angel Island in San Francisco.

A massive mansion in San Francisco’s ritzy Pacific Heights Neighborhood, is now the city’s most expensive home at $28.5 million.

A good Samaritan helped rescue at least six people from a yacht that caught on fire in San Francisco Bay Sunday afternoon, a fire official said.