This article was originally published Oct. 26, 2017. When you drive around the tiny town of Colma, just south of Daly City, you can’t help but notice a certain redundancy of scenery. Tombstones. A ...

COLMA, CA — On a cloudless October afternoon, Richard Rocchetta piloted his Toyota through a sea of weather-beaten headstones and mausoleums that sprawl over hilly, manicured lawns of his hometown. He ...

Nila Negri sits in front of her dog Rusty's grave site at Pet's Rest cemetery in Colma, Calif., Wednesday, June 14, 2006. The city, also home to 1.5 million deceased humans, is running out of room for ...

In 1858, the Italian Mutual Benevolent Association of San Francisco was established. Now the many confused Italian immigrants, many who could speak only Italian, had a place they could go to get help ...

Hundreds of bronze memorial flower vases were stolen from a Colma cemetery during break-ins Feb. 3 and Feb. 18, police and cemetery officials said Wednesday. Thieves stole a total of 533 vases from ...