On Monday, the world recognized...
a key Holocaust milestone in commemorating the 75th anniversary of the...
liberation of the notorious Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by the...
Russian Army — a pivotal occasion the United Nations declared as International...
Holocaust Remembrance Day. But 98-year-old Berkeley resident Ben Stern didn’t need a special occasion to remember the horrors of the Holocaust, its vast body count and the...

Fifty-seven violins arrived in the Bay Area last week, wooden ambassadors carrying with them the darkest chapter in world history — the Holocaust. Joe Rosato reports.

Fifty-seven violins arrived in the Bay Area last week, wooden ambassadors carrying with them the darkest chapter in world history — the Holocaust.  The violins are among a collection amassed and restored by an Israeli father and son in a project known as Violins of Hope. The violins were all played by European Jews in the Jewish ghettos and Nazi…

Clean drinking water is becoming more and more precious in the face of droughts and rising population, but one San Francisco group is hoping to change that. NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows us a first-of-its kind experiment in San Francisco that could revolutionize water re-use in big cities.

Let’s face it, in the new 754-unit NEMA luxury apartment building on San Francisco’s mid-market street — there will be a lot of showering, sink running and — well — toilet flushing. But Aaron Tartakovsky and his company, Epic CleanTec, are aiming to give all that water — and even human waste — a second act.  The company is conducting a…

Most of the time, when livestock operations purchase sacks of feed for their animals, they’re not thinking about the possibility to turn the leftover packaging into something functionally artistic. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

The plain white walls in the hallway of the venerable San Francisco Art Institute tightly clutched their secret for more than eight decades — buried beneath a dozen layers of paint. But a new effort to turn back the decades and peel away the paint has bared one of those secrets — a fully intact 1930s fresco painted by Frederick...

The plain white walls in the hallway of the venerable San Francisco Art Institute tightly clutched their secret for more than eight decades — buried beneath a dozen layers of paint. But a new effort to turn back the decades and peel away the paint has bared one of those secrets — a fully intact 1930s fresco painted by Frederick Olmsted Jr.

Tom Sweeney, San Francisco’s famous Beefeater-cloaked doorman who greeted visitors at the threshold of Union Square’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel for over four decades, said he is hanging up his red coat, and closing the door on his long career. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

On a recent day, among the dozen or so animals receiving care at Sausalito’s Marine Mammal Center, were three sea lions all suffering from similar afflictions — they had all been shot. The three animals were separately rescued at points around the Bay Area by the center’s veterinarian team; Two of the patients each lost an eye from gunshot wounds....

On a recent day, among the dozen or so animals receiving care at Sausalito’s Marine Mammal Center, were three sea lions all suffering from similar afflictions — they had all been shot. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

Against the backdrop of one of the world’s most scenic settings — The Golden Gate Bridge — sailors Maggie Shea and Steph Roble were bogged down in some of the worst sailing imaginable.

Bay Area commercial Dungeness crab fishermen — used to struggling through inclement weather and labor strikes — are facing some of the biggest threats to their industry under new state regulations aimed at protecting migrating whales from becoming entangled in crab gear.

A San Francisco bar owner who ponied up a thousand bucks to buy a purported promissory note issued by San Francisco’s most eccentric character, Emperor Joshua Norton in 1878 — learned the unofficial currency is the genuine article and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $15,000.

A San Francisco bar owner who ponied up a thousand bucks to buy a purported promissory note issued by San Francisco’s most eccentric character, Emperor Joshua Norton in 1878 — learned the unofficial currency is the genuine article and worth somewhere in the neighborhood of $15 thousand dollars. Joe Rosato Jr. reports.

A heady breeze whipped up roiling swells just outside the Golden Gate Bridge as sailor Randall Reeves pointed his 45 aluminum boat Moli toward the famous structure, bringing home his successful quest to become the first sailor to make a solo expedition around the Americas and Antarctica continents in one season. The homecoming took place 380 days after he set out.

Then-San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos was a declared foe of the the city’s Embarcadero and Central Freeways long before the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake struck them each a debilitating blow.

The first pitch of Game 3 hadn’t even been thrown when the 86th World Series became one of the most memorable in history. A 6.9 magnitude earthquake, dubbed Loma Prieta, threw a curve ball into the historic meeting between the Oakland A’s and the San Francisco Giants. It turned out to be an event that would impact the future operation...

It was a World Series game no one who was there will ever forget. NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows why it’s a game that’s not remembered for what happened on the field.