In San Francisco Bay, the “Escape from Alcatraz” route from the onetime prison island to the mainland is a well-known quest for triathletes and other open-water swimmers. For one Petaluma swimmer, ...

A system of nets beneath the Golden Gate Bridge to deter people from jumping to their death is now complete. The suicide barrier made of stainless steel netting, and in some areas fencing, runs the ...

After decades of suicide-prevention advocacy, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge has steel-mesh nets installed along its full length to deter jumpers, officials announced Wednesday. “We have a ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Hines regretted jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge the moment his hands released the rail and he plunged the equivalent of 25 stories into the Pacific Ocean, breaking ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kevin Hines regretted jumping off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge the moment his hands released the rail and he plunged the equivalent of 25 stories into the Pacific Ocean, ...

Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...