Gap co-founder Doris Fisher, who helped build one of America’s most recognizable clothing retailers, has died at the age of 94, CEO Ri...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79. His death was an...

Dirk Kempthorne, the personable former governor of Idaho who later served as President George W. Bush’s second interior secretary, died on F...

Doug Allan, a cameraman whose skill at capturing candid scenes of penguins, bears, walruses and other animals that populate the Earth’s pola...

John P. “Phil” Larson, who served as a Fresno County supervisor and Fresno County Farm Bureau President after serving in the Mar...

Michael Tilson Thomas, the American conductor, composer and pianist whose 25-year tenure as music director of the San Francisco Symphony bec...

WASHINGTON — Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat who served nearly three decades in the state’s legislature before being elected to Congres...

Oscar Schmidt, a brash Brazilian basketball superstar who was nicknamed the Holy Hand for shooting prowess that got him into the Hall of Fam...

Peter Schrag, a longtime opinion editor of The Sacramento Bee who wrote a well-received book about the conundrum of California governance — ...

Lou Holtz, who coached six major colleges to bowl games and revived a floundering Notre Dame football program, taking the Irish to an unbeat...