After decades of suicide-prevention advocacy, San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge has steel-mesh nets installed along its full length to deter jumpers, officials announced Wednesday. “We have a ...

In San Francisco Bay, the “Escape from Alcatraz” route from the onetime prison island to the mainland is a well-known quest for triathletes and other open-water swimmers. For one Petaluma swimmer, ...

A system of nets beneath the Golden Gate Bridge to deter people from jumping to their death is now complete. The suicide barrier made of stainless steel netting, and in some areas fencing, runs the ...

A suicide deterrent net is seen below the roadway on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. The barrier at the bridge is near completion more than a decade after officials ...