On Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, powerful antennas on the Mare Island shipyard picked up an urgent radio-telegram meant for U.S. Navy ships operating 3,600 miles away near Hawaii – “AIR RAID ON PEARL ...

Mare Island Historic Park Foundation is set to host multiple events over the weekend to celebrate the founding of Mare Island 170 years ago. The annual event aims to highlight the island’s significant ...

VALLEJO, Calif. -- Situated off the coast of Vallejo is historic Mare Island. This once shipyard and naval base is now the home to Kent Fortner and Ryan Gibbon's Mare Island Brewing Company. Both ...

Mare Island Naval Shipyard history, going back 170 years to Sept. 16, 1854, when Capt. David Farragut arrived to build the Navy’s first West Coast base, will be featured at the upcoming Sept. 14-15 ...

If you’ve ever watched the 2023 movie “Oppenheimer,” there’s a scene where the titular physicist watches soldiers put bomb parts into trucks that then drive off into the horizon. Everyone knows what ...

MARE ISLAND — When Napa resident Ken Drake recently visited former Mare Island Naval Shipyard where he worked for 21 years during the Cold War, he saw a landscape both oh-so-familiar and yet foreign.

May 27—The Vallejo City Council took the first step Tuesday toward allocating $1 million in funds from a toxic chemical settlement to help rehabilitate the Mare Island Naval Cemetery. Fittingly enough ...

If you've been to Vallejo's waterfront, it was most likely on your way to the Napa Valley. Vallejo is an old Navy town that fell on hard economic times after the military closed the shipyard on Mare ...