An emergency boat is commandeered to transport campers off Angel Island on Sep. 17, 2024. Photo by Abigail Van Neely. If you remember wondering why Mission Local broke the news of the Angel Island ...

As day trips go, this one is spectacular. You arrive by water with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the entire Bay. There’s hiking, biking and barbecuing. And it all starts with one charismatic sea ...

The history of blimps, security towers, drones, ground cameras, experimental robots and other surveillance technologies used by U.S. authorities to watch the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border is on ...

Growing up, Jeffrey Thomas Leong heard stories from his father, a Chinese immigrant who first traveled to San Francisco in 1920. “Around the dinner table at night, he would tell us about his ...

A Georgia man has traveled across the U.S. to recreate a old family photograph taken on Angel Island. Gerald Layson, 74, flew with his family to visit the same spot where his father, James Alton ...

There is a famous quote at the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” There is a less famous inscription ...

As the Trump administration cracks down on immigration, a new exhibit on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay draws attention to the “virtual wall” that already looms over the U.S.–Mexico border — ...

SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- In a quiet corner of a San Rafael library, artist Evri Kwong works on a series of large panels depicting the Angel Island detention center where his Chinese grandparents were ...