North Beach News

When much of the U.S. is experiencing hot and muggy summertime heat, San Francisco boasts comfortable daytime temperatures and surprisingly cool evenings.

Proposition A sponsor Tony Kelly may be saying that there's no money and no campaign for the effort to break up the city's garbage monopoly, but that doesn't mean that Recology, the, ah, monopolist, is taking any chances with Tuesday's election.

Jeannene Przyblyski's office at the San Francisco Art Institute looks down into the windows of residential North Beach.

It's the end of the line for a legendary San Francisco eatery that's been serving diners for more than a century.

On Monday afternoon Mayor Edwin M. Lee participated in a ceremonial renaming of Middle Drive East in Golden Gate Park in honor of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi to celebrate her 25 years of public service to our City and its residents.

Dozens of people who live and work in North Beach are rallying around a homeless man who is fighting for his life after being struck in a hit-and-run accident last Saturday.

San Francisco police are looking for the driver of an SUV who ran down a 62-year-old pedestrian in North Beach, critically injuring him, then sped away.

San Francisco didn't get weird; it's always been weird. That's a core lesson of this week's terrific time-machine program at Davies Symphony Hall, where Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony are bringing back to life the very fabric of old San Francisco, through music.

In a recent episode of Mad Men titled " Lady Lazarus ," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were there color pictures of the whole Earth in October 1966? First some background... Astrophotography begins in 1946 when a V-2 launched from White Sands takes the first image from space - a grainy ... (more)

Chinese Hospital, the city's oldest independent community hospital, needs room to grow and a new building that is seismically safe.

The Lusty Lady has been serving the nude dancer and peep show needs of North Beach for nearly 30 years.

As part of the San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas and the Orchestra will explore the rich musical legacy that gave birth to the San Francisco Symphony .

On one hand, business owners appreciate the extra customers said buses bring into their establishments.

Walgreens, for the 68th time, is coming to town. The pharmacy chain store is already there near Fisherman's Wharf, melded into a parking structure that also houses In-N-Out Burger and Starbucks.