Marin County community leaders will receive a history lesson this month as part of the debate to rename Sir Francis Drake Boulevard because of the 16th-century explorer’s slave-trading past. The ...

MARIN COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- All of a sudden, the British explorer Sir Francis Drake has been getting a bad name. In Plymouth, England, there has been a movement to remove his statue. Now, there is a ...

A sculpture of controversial British explorer and pirate Sir Francis Drake no longer stands by the bay at Larkspur Landing in Marin County. City of Larkspur crews removed the 30-foot-tall steel ...

British explorer Sir Francis Drake landed on a beach in what is now Point Reyes National Seashore in the spring of 1579 and claimed the land for England. That was 28 years before an English colony was ...

The earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck in the Drake passage between Chile and Antarctica - shaking was ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP/CBS) -- San Francisco's Sir Francis Drake Hotel will be called The Beacon Grand in the latest attempt in the Bay Area to rename streets and landmarks after the slave-trading explorer ...

MARIN COUNTY (CBS SF) -- Officials in Marin County are planning to hold another online meeting next week on the possible renaming of Sir Francis Drake Boulevard because of its namesake's history as a ...

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. - The Marin County Board of Supervisors and the San Anselmo Town Council will vote on Tuesday whether to change the name of a major roadway. Sir Francis Drake Boulevard is a ...

SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (KGO) -- Marin County's Tamalpais Union High School District is in the process of changing the name of Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, the district confirmed ...