Pacifica News

The City Council unanimously approved a no-bid contract with Recology Monday night that cleared the way for the trash hauler to purchase Coastside Scavenger and its sister company, Seacoast Disposal.

Bartholomew Church Auditorium 600 Columbia Drive San Mateo Speakers: * Assemblyman Jerry Hill * Ira Ruskin * Assembly Speaker pro Tempore Sally Lieber * * Senator Leland Yee, 8th District * Trent Lange, Chair, California for Fair elections Please come and get informed, if not passionate, about how Fair Elections will take politicians out of the ...

Take a tour of Pacifica's "Secret Waterfall", and discover both its beauty and the pollution that frequently covers the creek bank and adjoining beach.

Fire alarms at 12 local school districts were either upgraded or are in the process of being renovated over a year after the San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury recommended changes, according to a follow-up study released yesterday.

Will Durst Political satirist, stage and television star Will Durst is coming to the stage of Pacifica Performances Saturday night and he's bringing the improv duo of Deb and Mike to open his show.

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Hazel and Don Beck Businesses and individuals named as honorees by the Pacifica Chamber of Commerce board gathered with their family members and friends in a gala celebration at Nick's Restaurant Jan.

And Then There Were None opens Friday, February 5 for a month run at Pacifica Spindrift Players theater on Crespi Drive.

Susan Vickrey, superintendent of Pacifica School District , and her Chief Business Official Josie Peterson gave a public update February 1 on the budget situation at PSD.

Residents who live near Sharp Park Pier in Pacifica aren't surprised that someone walking on the beach drowned yesterday.

Most of the Bay Area will see only clouds and a few light showers for the next couple of days, said Ryan Walbrun, a forecaster with the National Weather Service, but Thursday will bring a chance of "significant precipitation." Walbrun said no surf advisories are expected this week, although that might change once the rains return.

In an ominous summary of plummeting property values, the San Mateo County Assessor's office reports that Pacifica will suffer a reduction in property tax revenues of $2,597,000 due to reduced assessments in 2009.

Three apartment buildings teeter on the edge of a crumbling 80-foot cliff while storm-driven waves crash violently on the rocks below.

The body of a 37-year-old Berkeley woman was found south of a pier on Sharp Park Beach in Pacifica this weekend after she was swept into the ocean by a strong current, according to police.

Pacifica Performances presents Los Boleros, Saturday, January 30 at 7:30 p.m., Mildred Owen Hall, 1220 Linda Mar Blvd., Pacifica, in the building with the colorful mural.

Pacifican Shirley Fong-Torres, owner of "Wok Wiz Chinatown Tours and Cooking Co." appears on the wildly watched "The Bachelor," ABC-TV, on Monday, Feb.

The city of Pacifica's PB&R and Open Space Subcommittee meets Tuesday, Feb. 2, at 3:30 p.m. in the PB&R conference room, 1810 Francisco Blvd.

The Pacifica Climate Committee, a citizens group that has been working since 2007 to study the local impacts of climate change, has sent a letter to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Recreation and Parks Department, urging them to "commit to long-term planning for the impacts of sea level rise and climate change on Sharp Park, and delay ...

Felix Samuel, Rudy Furlan and Zareen Levien of Los Boleros Bay Area reviews on the Latin band Los Boleros explain much of what you will hear Saturday night at Pacifica Performances Mildred Owen Concert Hall: expressive music - they make you dance; extremely authentic; they epitomize the classic Cuban/Puerto Rican aesthetic.

People living near the Pacifica apartments on the edge of a cliff, are worried they could suffer the same fate and they want immediate help.