In San Francisco Bay, the “Escape from Alcatraz” route from the onetime prison island to the mainland is a well-known quest for triathletes and other open-water swimmers. For one Petaluma swimmer, ...

A system of nets beneath the Golden Gate Bridge to deter people from jumping to their death is now complete. The suicide barrier made of stainless steel netting, and in some areas fencing, runs the ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...