What is it about lighthouses that ghosts like so much? Maybe it’s the mist that often seems to shroud their lonely towers. Maybe it’s their historic role as a beacon to keep sailors safe from ...

John Gibbons shivered in the back of the little boat hauling him to his first assignment as a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. It was 1953. Gibbons was a baby-faced 18-year-old kid from Ohio who had ...

California’s coastline is 3,427 miles long, and since the 1850s, the state’s lighthouses have helped mariners navigate rough seas and fog. After hundreds of shipwrecks and not long after California ...

This south-to-north list includes some of reporter Hailey Branson-Potts’ favorite California lighthouse trips, from popular tourist attractions to the obscure remnants of old navigational aids. Hailey ...

(KRON) — A lighthouse perched on an ocean cliff halfway between Santa Cruz and Half Bay Moon has guided ocean mariners since 1872. Standing at 115 feet tall, Pigeon Point is the tallest operating ...

California's lighthouses once guided gold rush ships and saved lives. Now they're mostly guiding tourists to gift shops while slowly collapsing into the Pacific. The Coast Guard has moved on to ...

Few structures evoke such varied emotions as the sight of a weathered lighthouse standing firm against an incoming tide. Without these tall, circular towers set along the shore, California wouldn’t be ...