A state appeals court upheld the conviction and sentence of Paula Drake, who struck and killed a cyclist in Woodacre.

The Sir Francis Drake was a staple of San Francisco’s civic life for nearly a century, but the 21-story, 416-room hotel has not reopened since March 2020, during the onslaught of the pandemic.

Drake had entered San Francisco Bay, almost 200 years before Gaspar de Portolá “discovered” the area. It's believed Sir Francis Drake landed somewhere near this beach in Point Reyes in the 1500s.

LARKSPUR (CBS SF) – On Wednesday, a group of protesters rallied in Larkspur in support of the removal of the Sir Francis Drake sculpture in the city and also advocated for the renaming of Sir ...

Sir Francis Drake was a famous explorer but not much is known about his first wife Mary Newman, who was born in Saltash. Mary ...

Some evidence suggests Sir Francis Drake careened his ship here in 1579. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB “The boundary of New Spain was right around San Francisco.

Marin County’s claim to Sir Francis Drake’s famous landfall in 1579 is being called into question in a new book that asserts the English seafarer landed in Oregon. Debate about whether Drake ...

Francis Drake, son of an English clergyman of modest means, was a pirate, an explorer, a navigator, a world traveler to beat all world travelers, a vice admiral of the small but fast British Fleet ...

Named after 16th-century explorer Sir Francis Drake, the passage connects the Atlantic, Pacific, and Southern Oceans.At approximately 600 miles (965 kilometers) wide, it is relatively narrow ...