Loren Elliott for The New York Times Around the bend, after stumbling over logs and rocks, they could see the cranes at the Oakland port, the San Francisco skyline, the sun shimmering on the bay ...

The Port of Oakland is appealing a court ruling that temporarily blocks it from using its new airport name, San Francisco Bay Oakland International Airport. The port on Thursday filed a notice ...

and is the largest to strike the San Francisco Bay Area in eight years. The temblor was centered in Joseph D. Grant County Park and was felt as far away as Salinas, Point Reyes and Stockton.