LOS ANGELES – Donnie Brooks, a singer with rockabilly roots who had a top 10 pop hit with the love song “Mission Bell” in 1960, has died. He was 71. Brooks died Friday of congestive heart failure at ...

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 ...

GILROY, Calif. (KGO) -- The indigenous community in the Bay Area is fighting the installation of a replica mission bell approved more than a year ago. It's set to be installed in the City of Gilroy.

SANTA CRUZ — The only remaining “El Camino Real” mission bell in Santa Cruz — a symbol that many of California’s Indigenous peoples say is a hurtful reminder of oppression and slavery that took place ...

GILROY – Over objections from local Native Americans, the city of Gilroy on Friday finished the installation of a commemorative El Camino Real mission bell downtown as part of its 150th birthday ...