Chinatown News

Thousands lined the streets of San Francisco for the annualChinese New Year Parade.

The duck farm, photo from the 1960s, was located in Bassett/La Puente area south of Valley Boulevard on both sides of the 605 Freeway.

It looks like Gov. Jerry Brown will not get his wish, and his tax plan will not be the only one on the November ballot.

Chinese New Year is also celebrated annually in many western cities with significant Chinese populations.

Considered one of the best Asian art shows in America, the 16th Annual San Francisco Arts of the Pacific Asia show , Feb.

Sevier County takes no small amount of pride in being the gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and Smokies' lovers love to boast about "our park" being the most visited in America.

Christina Olague, the newest member of the Board of Supervisors, faces a difficult balancing act.

San Francisco already bans large grocery stores and chain pharmacies from using plastic bags, which are blamed for clogging landfills and waterways.

Endless Travel Vacations Temecula reviews great vacation destinations, ways to save money on vacation, travel tips and tricks, travel scams to avoid and more.

San Francisco journalist Enzo Lee is the King of Fluff: light features that rely on "pithy one-liners, bad puns and witty opening paragraphs of dubious taste." Features like the story about "the unfortunate casket mix up involving the mayor's deceased mother and a dead Saint Bernard: ." Lee, of course, is fictional.

Dragons have been a staple of Chinese cultural celebrations for centuries. On Saturday, the fierce creatures were seen at every turn as the Rogue Valley greeted the Year of the Dragon in Jacksonville.

Frank Oliveira walks through his brother's Kings County orchard where maps show that the high-speed train would run.

That icon of all icons, the Golden Gate Bridge, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, so I happily used the occasion to re-visit this engineering masterpiece, which links San Francisco to Marin County.

Two of the last 10' by 14' Earthquake Cottages built after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake now sit in the U.S. National Park Service's Presidio in San Francisco, Tuesday, January 31, 2012.

Gung Hay Fat Choy! San Nin Fai Lok! A The Year of the Dragon promises to be a spectacular, extravagant andA flamboyant year!A As the fifth of twelve animals in the Chinese horoscope, peopleA born in the year of the Dragon are imaginative, decisive, self-confident,A curious, generous and romantic .A They are not afraid when faced with aA challenge ... (more)

The already influential Chinatown Community Development Center will likely gain even more clout with the appointment of one of its staffers to the San Francisco Planning Commission.

Fish play a large role in festive celebrations. The word for fish, " Yu ," sounds like the words both for wish and abundance.

Growing up, I felt like an outsider. When holidays like Chinese New Year came around, I would panic.

Juggling Maria Inez Gamez's medications and care became too difficult for her granddaughter and other family members, but the family didn't want to place her in a nursing home.

I recently watched "Auntie Mame" on TV. Mame Dennis was a fictional character based loosely on the author's aunt.