Juan Bautista de Anza arrived in Santa Fe at a time when New Mexico, like Spain?s other North American colonies, faced heightened threats from Indians and international rivals. As governor of New ...

On a busy Riverside thoroughfare, a statue of Juan Bautista de Anza stands tall and faces south. He’s gazing toward the route he and his countrymen traveled in March 1774. The first outsider to ...

More from the mailbag: My March 24 column about the 250th anniversary of Juan Bautista de Anza’s journey through the Inland Empire (wherever it is) explored his path through Riverside. To refresh ...

Generations of Riversiders used to drive past the statue of Juan Bautista de Anza. Right past it, in fact: The statue stood on a triangular median with traffic flowing by on three sides. Patricia Lock ...

CUPERTINO — De Anza College is the latest Bay Area institution where students, faculty and community members are pushing for a name change to honor indigenous people who were harmed and pushed out by ...

On my visit Wednesday to Riverside’s tiny Newman Park, the Juan Bautista de Anza statue was getting a power wash. The real 18th century explorer might have wished for such a luxury after another day ...

SALINAS – There’s an important historic story underfoot in the region that could be mined into an international attraction, expanding tourism and hospitality while creating revenues to pay for social ...

With a fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge visible off in the distance, Naomi Torres leaned against a reproduction of the foundation for a chapel that once stood in the Presidio on San Francisco's ...