The official grand opening celebration with klieg lights and fireworks marked the historic day before the bridge became an internationally recognized symbol of San Francisco. Two hundred thousand ...

At 10:15 Monday night, the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic, about seven hours ahead of schedule and $5 billion over budget. The $6.4 billion, self ...

The Golden Gate Bridge's vaulting, orange arches amidst the rocky seascape of the San Francisco Bay have made it one of the West Coast's most enduring symbols and the city's most popular tourist ...

But most dismissed Crocker’s idea. A bridge stretching almost two miles across open ocean? Unfeasible. Nearly five decades later, in 1916, San Francisco engineer James H. Wilkins re-proposed the ...