MOUNT DIABLO — A historic beacon on top of one of the Bay Area’s most prominent peaks will shine brighter and crisper on Pearl Harbor Day this Saturday after an extensive overhaul by volunteers.

“In every direction the country is full of beauty, and presents a most luxuriant and cultivated appearance,” famed landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing wrote of Mount Beacon in 1835. Today, the ...

DANVILLE -- The Mount Diablo beacon will be lit Friday night for Veterans Day to honor those who have served in the military. Local veterans and members of the public will gather at 4:45 p.m. at the ...

New Yorkers on Saturday honored six Navy men killed aboard a transport plane that crashed into a mountain overlooking the Hudson River 70 years ago this week. Among the men killed on Nov. 11, 1945, on ...

While hiking enthusiasts throughout the Hudson Valley likely traversed Mount Beacon in the City of Beacon at one time or another, it was two men from New Hampshire who envisioned the potential for a ...