FOSTER CITY — The good news is that a new foghorn on the San Mateo Bridge will be equipped with a device to direct its blasts away from shore, sparing residents the noise. The bad news is that two ...

SAN MATEO — A foghorn atop the San Mateo Bridge will be replaced after some San Mateo residents who live nearby complained that it was sounding continually. Caltrans determined last month that the ...

RICH CATANIA of Huntington can’t imagine the U. S. Coast Guard disconnecting the fog horn at the historic Huntington Harbor Lighthouse. He heads the Greater Huntington Council of Yacht and Boating ...

Fog horns around the country's coastline are to be switched off. The signals have been part of the maritime safety network for over a century and have become part of the rich heritage of some of the ...

Read the full text version of this story at KQED’s QUEST site. East Brother Island, with the 19th-century lighthouse on the left and fog signal building on the right. On foggy mornings, I wake up to a ...

Few sounds evoke the Maine coast as readily as the low, steady thrum of a foghorn. And few communities are as protective of their traditions as mariners. So it should’ve surprised no one in 2014 when ...

FOGHORNS at Tuskar Rock and Hook Head lighthouses were silenced this week following a decision by the Commissioners of Irish Lights to discontinue their use. The lighthouse authority announced that ...

If you live near downtown Seattle, you may have recently heard a long, low horn reverberating through the soupy nighttime air. It happens every once in a while and has some Seattleites mystified.

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