Known as the “City of Souls,” Colma is shaped as much by its dead as its living. Children play among headstones, and locals ...

Colma has long been known as the home to 1,000 times more dead people than living people, and that’s becoming a problem. The tiny town of Colma is merely two square miles, and nearly 75 percent of ...

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, California, just outside San Francisco, was founded as a necropolis in the 1920s. Today, the city is home to about ...

COLMA — A blaze that broke out during the cremation of two bodies Wednesday damaged a historic chapel and gutted a crematory at Cypress Lawn cemetery, officials said. Firefighters who rushed to the ...

Ten miles south of San Francisco, just down the road from Nordstrom Rack, is the booming necropolis of Colma, a city whose dead outnumber the living. There is no Main Street, no corner grocery. The ...

COLMA, Calif. - Police in Colma, a town known for its cemeteries, are now investigating a rare homicide, with a victim shot at a cemetery. "Apparently he was visiting a gravesite, memorializing ...

COLMA — By early Friday afternoon, more than 100 people had driven to Pet’s Rest cemetery in Colma. They came from all over San Mateo County, from San Francisco — even from as far as Berkeley — and ...

The ghost of Emperor Norton is likely dusting off his epaulets and preparing a royal decree. Woodlawn Memorial Park, final resting place for the beloved, peace-loving San Francisco eccentric, is ...

A Daly City woman is facing charges after police say they caught her stealing metal fixtures from a Colma cemetery. A spokesman for the Colma Police Department said officers arrested Kimberly Ann ...

(KRON) – Colma police officers chased a suspected thief through a cemetery to arrest him, according to the Colma Police Department. The theft occurred at a Colma Boulevard retail store on Nov. 27.

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 ...