Stories By Joe Rosato Jr

A tanker trunk backed confidently down a boat ramp at Boyd’s Landing in Yolo County, looking as if it were about to dump a load of fuel into the briskly flowing Feather River. But as the driver flipped a metal lever on the back of the tank, the stream flowing into the river was instead a torrent of water flecked...

The complete archives of the Nuremberg trials are coming together at Stanford University.

The war in the Ukraine recently passed the one year mark and its fallout has touched people all around the world. NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows us how one man has been helping those in the warzone find a little bit of normalcy.

Fishing regulators decided to likely close this year’s salmon fishing season for all of California, and on Friday, fishermen and others in the industry gathered at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf to explain just how damaging that will be.

There’s very bad news for those who love California king salmon. Fishery managers right now are considering a full closure of this year’s salmon fishing season, and it’s all tied to our years-long drought.

A couple Saturdays ago, a group of a dozen volunteers gathered on Ole Schell’s family ranch in Bolinas – sleeves rolled to the elbows, ready to toil in the soil, all under the cause of aiding the deeply challenged monarch butterflies.  

NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. hosts Fog City Stories, a special that originally aired on March 4, 2023.

Every time Willa Johnson rolls out of San Francisco’s cable car barn at the helm of one of the city’s famous wooden ambassadors, she is in a sense history driving history. 

If there’s any instrument in the quiver of American music that can simultaneously summon heartbreak, salvation and joy, it just might be the banjo. Its earliest origins lie deep within the Black American experience. And that’s where Angela Wellman came to find it. 

Few people in San Francisco have ever heard of Buckeye Grove, or have any plans to head to Yerba Buena Island to visit it. You can’t blame them. Just a year ago it didn’t even exist. And yet its unique topography and storm drains reveal it as much more than just new scenery on an island in transition – but...

A new business in San Francisco is hoping to incubate a new generation of Black-owned businesses along Fillmore Street, a roadway that intersects through numerous neighborhoods and demographics.  

NBC Bay Area is celebrating Black heritage by shining the light on some of the people who use their actions, and voices, to create the diverse Bay Area community. Joe Rosato Jr. has the story of a San Francisco singer who is as timeless as her songs.

Scientists say our changing climate has thrown a lot of unexpected twists into nature. Eight years ago, an unexpected warming of waters along the Bay Area coast helped spread a disease that killed thousands of sea stars — or starfish.