CRESCENT CITY, Calif.- It doesn't matter if the earth sways in Chile, Alaska or Japan, the formation of the sea floor along the U.S. West Coast generally aims any tsunami surges at the tiny California ...

An arrest was made in Crescent City as law enforcement officers continue to investigate the deadly Esparto fireworks warehouse explosion​.

When 4-foot tsunami waves crashed into the Crescent City Harbor in rural Northern California last week, the dock nearest the harbor’s entrance — which was designed to absorb the brunt of the surge ...

Crescent City - one of California's northernmost towns and Del Norte County's lone city - took a close-to-$1 million hit to its harbor after tsunami waves battered the North Coast earlier this week.

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SAN FRANCISCO — A small California coastal city near the border with Oregon that has recorded dozens of tsunamis, including one that killed 11 people more than 60 years ago, saw little damage ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. FILE - Sunken and damaged boats rest in the boat basin after a powerful tsunami sent repeated surges that ...

One of California’s oldest small-town newspapers has gone silent. The Del Norte Triplicate — tracing back to a paper founded in 1879 in Crescent City, a fogbound fishing town just south of the Oregon ...