For decades, fourth-grade students in California have had one project that has taken over dining room tables, required piles of popsicle sticks and kept parents and kids up at night completing it: ...

SAN GABRIEL (CBSLA.com) – It's lesson-over for a long-running education project in Southern California. The fourth grade requirement to build models of California missions is on its way to the history ...

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A piece of California history that dates to 1776 is going up for auction in New York City later this month. A two-page letter by Father Junipero Serra, regarded as the father of the California mission ...

While California’s missions are still beloved by many people of faith, Saturday’s blaze at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel came as their legacy throughout California have been called into question. The ...

Few symbols in California are as ubiquitous as the roadside markers shaped like mission bells that flank state highways and the streets of coastal cities from San Diego to Sonoma along the so-called ...

Father Jerome Tupa is not a missionary, but he understands the urgency of a mission. As a Benedictine monk at St. John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minn., he belongs to a Catholic order that emphasizes ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the Native American tribes included in the UCLA History-Geography Project’s lesson. For millions of Californians, growing up in the Golden State ...

While California’s missions are still beloved by many people of faith, Saturday’s blaze at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel came as their legacy throughout California have been called into question. The ...

For decades, fourth-grade students in California have had one project that has taken over dining room tables, required piles of popsicle sticks and kept parents and kids up at night completing it: ...

While California’s missions are still beloved by many people of faith, Saturday’s blaze at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel came as their legacy throughout California have been called into question. The ...