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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UC Santa Cruz employees David Jessen, left, and Mitch Smith, remove an "El Camino Real" bell marker from campus during a ceremony ...

We are marking 10 years since the historic moment on Sept. 23, 2015, when Junípero Serra (1713-1784), the founder of the California missions, was raised to the altars. Junípero Serra was canonized at ...

When I get something in my head, it usually doesn't leave until I take action. Such is the case in my quest to visit all 21 California missions. After last week's road trip, I'm up to 10 ... almost ...

‘Cliffs at Sunrise,’ a painting by Margaret Ricks, received top honors in the juried art show The California Missions Trail from Carpinteria to Guadalupe. (Margaret Ricks) This spring, artists with ...

Control of Los Cabos missions at San José del Cabo and Santiago shifted from the Jesuits to Franciscans in 1768, with dire ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Native American tribes included in the UCLA History-Geography Project’s lesson. For millions of Californians, growing up in the Golden State ...

Few symbols in California are as ubiquitous as the roadside markers shaped like mission bells that flank state highways and the streets of coastal cities from San Diego to Sonoma along the so-called ...