Ten miles south of San Francisco, just down the road from Nordstrom Rack, is the booming necropolis of Colma, a city whose dead outnumber the living. There is no Main Street, no corner grocery. The ...

Two separate thefts in February resulted in more than 525 bronze vases, worth more than $85,000, being taken from a Colma cemetery, Colma police Cmdr. Jon Read said. The first theft occurred on Feb. 3 ...

At Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, visitors who stroll the grounds may find themselves face to face with gargoyles or foo dogs. Where did gargoyles come from and what are foo dogs? According to ...

The oldest chapel at Cypress Lawn cemetery in Colma damaged by a fire in the neighboring crematorium was reopened after a thorough and thoughtful renovation. Nobel Chapel, built in 1893, required more ...

Ninety-seven people who once had names were buried Thursday, again. The 97 people were Gold Rush pioneers whose bones were discovered in the late 1990s during the construction of the new Main Library ...

One of the more than 300,000 deceased that call Cypress Lawn Cemetery home is the first ever detective of the San Francisco Police Department, inspiring a night tour that invites aspiring sleuths to ...

COLMA — A blaze that broke out during the cremation of two bodies Wednesday damaged a historic chapel and gutted a crematory at Cypress Lawn cemetery, officials said. Firefighters who rushed to the ...

I had the entire pet cemetery to myself. And contrary to all horrifying Stephen King notions of that scenario, it was actually really nice—just late day tranquility amid a lawn full of tombstones ...