For years, I had dreamt of visiting the Farallon Islands, a series of sharp rocky spires only 25 miles off the San Francisco coast. Mysterious and fascinating, they are often hidden by a dense curtain ...

For the first time in about 170 years, the Farallon Islands off the San Francisco coast will no longer have a year-round human presence. In September, the biologists charged with protecting the ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- One man died and two others survived when the fishing boat they were on capsized near the Farallon Islands off the coast of San Francisco on Saturday, police said. San Francisco ...

A crested auklet was spotted on Farallon Islands, marking “the first-ever record of this species” on the islands, a conservation group said. Photo from Melisa Amato/USFWS “Among the usual crowd” of ...

A Mill Valley woman conquered one of the most challenging long-distance swims in the world and completely smashed the record on Tuesday. Catherine Breed took off from the Farallon Islands late Monday ...

Mill Valley native, Catherine Breed, became the 3rd woman to complete the 30.9 mile swim from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco. She hit an unofficial record, completing the swim in under 14 hours ...

Open-water swimmer Catherine Breed swam from the Farallon Islands to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a chilly 30-mile journey through some of the Pacific Ocean’s most notorious great white shark ...