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Northern California is a land of dramatic contrasts: soaring skyscrapers and towering redwoods, bustling cities and pathless wilderness, pounding surf and glittering snowcapped peaks. Vintners practice their centuries-old craft in some of the greatest wine-producing areas of North America, while nearby entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley reinvent the world of computers on almost a daily basis. Northern California is home to California's capital (Sacramento), its third-largest city (San Jose), the second-highest mountain of the Cascade Range (Mt. Shasta), the third-most visited national park (Yosemite). It is a land of superlatives.

The area has been popular for a long time. The first pre-Columbian settlers arrived here as long ago as 8,000 BC, and quickly made the area one of the most densely populated in North America. Europeans didn't settle here, however, until 1770, when the mission of Monterey was founded. But with the discovery of gold near Sacramento in 1848, northern California became a magnet for settlers. The area experienced a 300% increase in population during the Gold Rush years; and while the pace slowed considerably in later years, by the turn of the century over a million people lived in the region.

Today, more 12 million live in the northern California region. Yet outside of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento areas, northern California has a low population density: of the fifteen counties at the bottom of California's population figures, only one of them is outside this region.

 
 

Articles

News from the San Francisco Chronicle

Occupation of Wheeler Hall nears an end

Nov 21, 2009 2:54 am

Police arrested about 40 protesters inside UC Berkeley's Wheeler Hall tonight, ending an 11-hour occupation of the building on the third day of raucous protests and strikes over labor disputes and the...

 

Rainy day is nice, but no drought-ender

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

Rain fell, as forecast, over the Bay Area on Friday. But anyone expecting a drought-ending deluge or even a nice slow lawn soaking was undoubtedly disappointed. In San Francisco, it amounted to a brie...

 

Santa Clara stadium group gets jump on election

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

A pro-Santa Clara stadium group stocked with former civic leaders has fired the first salvo in the ballot-box battle over moving the San Francisco 49ers to Silicon Valley - sending out a mailer this w...

 

UC Berkeley students end occupation

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

Forty protesters who barricaded themselves inside Wheeler Hall for 11 hours Friday didn't win back the 38 custodial jobs they demanded, nor did they persuade the UC regents to rescind their decision t...

 

Tiburon to record every car coming and going

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

A novel anti-crime surveillance program that will record the license plate number of every car entering and leaving Tiburon should be up and running within six months, officials said Thursday. The Tow...

 

OAKLAND / Lehman Bros. to clean hospital site

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

Lehman Bros. agreed Thursday to pay $3.7 million to clean up Oakland Naval Hospital, formerly called Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, in the Oakland hills, a site that had been set for development before the...

 

SAN FRANCISCO / Fire displaces 15 in Richmond District

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

A three-alarm fire Thursday in a Richmond District duplex under renovation displaced 15 residents of adjacent buildings. No injuries were reported in the blaze that started at a vacant three-story bui...

 

Everything on the table to solve S.F. deficit

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

Mayor Gavin Newsom said Thursday no city program is assured protection, and no money-making idea is off limits, as city officials begin crafting a budget for next year that already is starting $522 mi...

 

EBMUD Pardee Reservoir expansion faces lawsuit

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

Opponents of an East Bay water utility's effort to enlarge a key reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills threw a legal roadblock into the project's way Thursday, suing the agency to overturn a prelim...

 

Project Homeless Connect in Golden Gate Park

Nov 20, 2009 8:00 am

Hunched over his shopping cart filled with cans and bottles as he smoked a cigarette Thursday morning, 55-year-old Ken Davis looked quizzically at the dozens of city workers and volunteers erecting te...