People in Mandalay, near the epicenter of the 7.7.-magnitude quake, were rushed to the main hospital. Shaking was felt hundreds of miles away in Bangkok, in neighboring Thailand.

Working to bring the dilapidated, malodorous toilet facilities at some of the Bay Area’s most popular beaches up to a more pleasant standard for the thousands of visitors, state parks officials are ...

David Childs, the lead architect of the One World Trade Center skyscraper that rose from the site where the Twin Towers collapsed in New York City during the 9/11 attacks, has died. He was 83. Childs ...