Rancho Santa Fe

Rancho Santa Fe, Surprising and Strange, The World August 24, 2026

29 years ago, Heaven’s Gate couldn’t wait

Dateline Rancho Santa Fe. March 26, 1997. A 911 call came into the San Diego Sheriff’s Communications Center. It was treated as a prank call at first. From what turned out to be a nearby payphone, the caller said something so preposterous that dispatchers took their time in relaying the information to central command. “This is regarding a mass suicide. I can give you the address,” the…

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Rancho Santa Fe February 13, 2025

Getting clubby at Rancho Santa Fe’s golf house Mecca

On the evening of January the thirtieth, beneath the murmuring eucalyptus and the glow of a descending sun, the Rancho Santa Fe Association board convened in quiet determination and, at last, gave its blessing to a grand design—an $8 million renovation of the clubhouse restaurant, a place of hushed conversation and the clinking of crystal under chandeliers that had witnessed decades of whispered confidences. The…