Stories By Joe Rosato Jr

Few students studying architecture get actual real world experience designing a town from the ground up, but the fire-ravaged mountain town of Greenville is giving that very opportunity to a group of San Francisco students.  

There is scant furniture in the living room of the Curtis Family’s apartment in San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunters Point. That’s because in the push-pull saga of living room-vs.-rehearsal studio — the furniture ultimately lost out.

Jeff Cable has never stood on an Olympic podium, or won a medal. And yet in his trips to seven Olympic Games he’s come home with gold every time – in the form of stunning photographs.

NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. highlights the stories that make the Bay Area so special.

Sitting within a long outfield throw of the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge and straddling the counties of Marin, San Francisco and Contra Costa — Red Rock is an enigma.

As San Francisco plans the rebuild its decaying seawall under threat from earthquakes and rising sea levels, a team of researchers wants to make sure the new barrier takes into account the sea creatures who make their home in the bay. 

‘Tis the season for shoppers seeking out one-of-a-kind holiday gifts and many people will take to the internet to do their shopping. But for those interested in stepping back into the times of shopping past, NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. has just the San Francisco shop for you.

In 1918, when the industrials seeking to harness Northern California’s Klamath River for hydroelectric power began erecting their first concrete dam against the steep canyon walls near the California-Oregon border, the tribal ancestors of Clayton Dumont registered their protest. 

This coming January will mark the final leg of the massive project to remove four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River in Northern California, freeing the river for the first time in over a century. With the removal of the first dam last summer, crews will begin draining the reservoirs behind the remaining three dams, with final demolition sch...

On Friday, a long-standing Bay Area holiday tradition will light up once again: San Jose’s Christmas in the Park.

If there’s an avenue that rumbles through the hearts and histories of San Francisco, it’s the Embarcadero. And APEC is giving the Port of San Francisco a chance to show off that world to a global audience.

On Monday, just a block away from where the late music impresario Bill Graham created his musical temple known as the Fillmore Auditorium, family and fans dedicated a large mural bearing a portrait of the legendary promotor that seemed to match his larger-than-life proportions. 

Banana peels or egg shells you toss in the green bin could be coming back to you in a bottle of wine. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.