The Calif. town with less than 30 residents begging for young people to move in Town residents want visitors to know one thing.

California has a fascination with ghost towns.

But what if a town isn’t quite a ghost town? Residents in Darwin, Calif. say the fascination has brought trespassers and misconceptions to a community of real people trying to sustain daily life in a tiny desert town. www.sfgate.com/california/a...

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨

@sfgate.com, the West Coast's largest news site, is looking for a new tech reporter.

🧵 below on what we're looking for, or if you want a shortcut, here's the job listing: sfgate.com/careers

SFGATE launched a National Parks bureau. It led to explosive growth. SFGATE was one of America's 10 fastest growing news sites in back-to-back months.

🚨 GOOD JOURNALISM NEWS ALERT 🚨

@sfgate.com launched a National Parks bureau in Jan. 1. It's led to millions of readers and our site being one of America's fastest growing in back-to-back months.

Instead of doing a 🧵 I wrote about who we hired + the wild numbers here: www.sfgate.com/national-par...

William Saroyan's frustrations over the Oscar he won stemmed from a gamble on himself that didn't pay off.

📰: www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

'Extortion': Calif. college gives athletes 3 months to raise $25M to save team The Cal Poly swimming and diving athletes have been given a chance to save their various programs but must raise $25 million in three months to do so.

“They haven’t been shown to be trustworthy,” Caneer told @sfgate.com. “They haven’t been shown to be reliable in anything they’ve done. That’s the problem — because they aren’t transparent, so everybody just assumes they’re hiding stuff.”

“It’s extortion, basically.” www.sfgate.com/collegesport...

West Coast's largest news site begins major national parks coverage expansion Major SFGATE expansion will see added coverage of national parks in Pacific Northwest, Southwest and Big Sky Country.

🚨 I HAVE NEWS 🚨

In January I told you @sfgate.com was doing a major national parks coverage expansion, hiring journalists to cover the American West's most loved outdoors spaces.

Well, we hired a DREAM TEAM 🧵👇 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

This is the most underrated SF movie ever made. Here's why. Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation" includes an iconic Union Square shot and presaged the dominant role tech and surveillance now command in the city.

There are many Gene Hackman roles I love. My favorite is The Conversation, which I wrote about last year www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

'Feels like a death': Point Reyes grapples with the end of an era Point Reyes is often at a bitter divide between environmentalism and human heritage. Now, in 2026, nearly all the ranches on the seashore are set to be evicted.

Best part about @sfgate.com expanding to cover the entire state of Calif. is how much I've learned about parts of it I know so little about.

Two great examples: this beautiful Silas Valentino piece on what it means to lose the ranches in Point Reyes... www.sfgate.com/california-p...

🚨 WE. ARE. HIRING. 🚨

📰 Breaking News Editor
💻 Part-time Homepage Editor
🗳️ Senior Calif. Politics Reporter
🌲 Contributing Parks Editor, PNW
🌵 Contrib. Parks Editor, Southwest
🗻 Contrib. Parks Editor, Big Sky Country
🟥 Stanford Summer Intern
🟨 Cal Summer Intern

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West Coast's largest news site begins major national parks coverage expansion Major SFGATE expansion will see added coverage of national parks in Pacific Northwest, Southwest and Big Sky Country.

HELLO: @sfgate.com is embarking on a major national parks coverage expansion today, hiring journalists to cover the American West's most incredible outdoors spaces. We'll be covering national parks clusters in the:

🌲 PNW
🌵 Southwest
🗻 Big Sky Country

Story + Quick 🧵👇 www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Why SFGATE is expanding way beyond San Francisco SFGATE now has 54 journalists who live in 20 different cities up and down the state, covering California top to bottom, coast to Sierra.

HEY! @sfgate.com is hiring.

🗳️ Senior Calif. Politics Reporter
📝 Breaking News Editor
✍️ News Reporter

We've had 0 layoffs since I took over in 2019 and almost tripled in size.

- Apply here: eevd.fa.us6.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Read why we're expanding here: www.sfgate.com/news/article...

🏆 Oh hey, more cool news to share today:

SFGATE won two of the most prestigious travel journalism awards on earth — The Lowell Thomas Awards: a Gold for Ashley Harrell's story on Hawaii sea turtles battling overtourism, and a Bronze for a Suzie Dundas experiential hiking Mt Whitney in a single day.