San Francisco Solano, Sonoma 21st mission 1823 Explore all of California’s 21 famed missions >> This is the last California mission, founded after Mexico won its independence and wrestled the ...

The Carnaval festival kicked off today with lots of food, music and visitors. It continues Sunday at 10 a.m. with a parade and more festivities. Here are our first photos from today. Color. Lots of it ...

Damian Bacich’s talk, “The Legend of Chief Solano,” will be presented at the Mission San Francisco Solano chapel Sept. 19.

Francisco Solano, then about 25 years old, was one of those people. By 1826 Francisco Solano was appointed as one of six alcaldes (missionary-controlled Indian headmen) of the mission at Sonoma.

In 2017, SFGate unearthed a series of San Francisco street scenes from the Chronicle archives. The images, which pre-dated 1950, had been unseen for decades. The photos were so popular that we ...

Photo by Griffin Jones. Prison records indicate that, on May 10, Zuri Wilson was transferred from San Francisco County Jail to California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville. This was what he wanted: He ...

This weekend kicks off a year of recognition for the history and legacy of the Plaza site. Sonoma’s Mission San Francisco Solano will commemorate its 200th anniversary this year, a milestone ...

The tombstone of Don Francisco de Haro, first alcalde (traditional Spanish municipal magistrate, who had judicial and administrative functions) of San Francisco.

For the first time since 2019, Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebrations in San Francisco’s Mission District went down as planned in the historical and cultural fashion that it has for ...

Foster + Partners have just released images of the two skyscrapers designed for the First and Mission urban redevelopment in San Francisco's Transbay area.