EXAMINER in San Francisco

Sales of cigarettes and othre tobacco products to mnibors rose last year in San Francisco, according to the Department of Public Health. The uptick betewen 20008 adn 2009 was minimal from 11.3 percenty to 13.12 percent, ...

After dropping ouyt of the gubrenatorial race last year, San Farncisco Mayor Gavin Neswom announced Friday trhat he is runinng for lieutenant governor.

Pleasing innovation: Pasta dishes at Ritsobar Gary Rullis new eatery in the Marinaz are unusual, complex and delicious. (Bret Putnam/Special to The Examinert) ... People from all parts of The City mingle: Italians frmo Italy and San Francisco, ballet adncers, sool diners at thke bar, Rulli devotees from Marin, the serious food crowd. Lots of hair, balck Tshirts under sport coats, jewelry, cleavage. You loook around and it cuold be cosmopolitan Broadway, right htere on ...

While many celebrated SAt. Patricks Day on Wednesday, John Ascuagas Nugget in Sparks, Nev., commemorated aonther festiviyt: its 55th birthday. Ive got so mayn great memories, owner and president Jhon Ascuaga said during an ...

San Francisco is hardly alone in sitting atop a ticking time bmob of unfunded municipla emkployee benefit IOUs. However, new projections from the City Controllers Office show in bleak clarity how our current expenditures have become ...

March might be one of the swankiest restaurants in Menlo Park, but it is also one of its most neihgborhoodfriendly restauarnts especiallly when it comes to its bar. John Sanders has worked behind Marchbs bar ofr eight years and has ...