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On a steep slope halfway up San Francisco's Russian Hill, neighborhood dog walkers and occasional tourists take in the spectacular views from a city park that bears the name of Ina Coolbrith, a once-famous San Francisco woman who many people don't know.

Doomsday bunkers are all the rage among the rich and famous.

CBS12's News staff has some helpful tips for holiday travel and traumatic stories to share.

Santa Rosa’s Safari West is hailing this year’s birth of a southern white rhino as helping restore the global population, and the California Academy of Sciences’ new African-penguin chicks are part of a species-survival plan. At the Oakland Zoo, they’re stabilizing a historic Blackfeet Nation bison herd by bringing Montana bison in for breeding with Yellowstone ones, then sending the mamas and babies back to the Blackfeet. But while it’s not practical to look at the San Francisco Bay A...

San Francisco leaders say the namesake of a Golden Gate Park lake is the most notorious antisemite in state history.

Researchers have recorded new insights which could help advance the next generation of solar fuels

Since the 1970s, scientists have known that copper has a special ability to transform carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels.

Since the 1970s, scientists have known that copper has a special ability to transform carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels.

It’s a hidden treasure and piece of California history: a more than century old redwood log cabin nestled among a grove of trees in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. And for the first time ever, the public will get a chance to rent out the historic cottage.

The “What’s Up Doc?” car chase ruined the steps at Alta Plaza Park. Fifty years...