Cyberdating: A Valentine's caution
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, though of flowers, candy and true love are being changed by modern technology as never before. There's good and bad and awful.
Southwest Airlines exec offers up explanation for Christmas meltdown
Chief operating officer Andrew Watterson said it 'struggled to keep the operation moving' at 'key airports.'
27% of consumers in relationships expect Valentine's Day spending may cause them to rack up credit card debt
Meanwhile, about 40% said they’d conceal it from their sweetheart should their Valentine’s Day spending bring on debt.
A nugget of love: Chick-fil-A brings back Valentine’s Day trays
Four trays filled with different, delicious “nuggets of love” are available for your Valentine’s Day breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert.
'Rain or stars': San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade to be held Feb. 4
Organizers of San Francisco's Chinese New Year Parade on Monday gave a preview of this year's planned festivities, saying it will be as exciting as ever.
Special Delivery: San Francisco Correspondence Co-op puts a stamp on artful 'snail mail'
A quirky correspondence group has plenty of enthusiasm for the US Postal Service and the artful creations they send through mail.
Valentine's Day: Here are the 100 Most Romantic Restaurants in America for 2023
Have you made a reservation for Valentine’s Day yet?
Floats under construction for San Francisco's Lunar New Year celebration
As we enter the year of the rabbit, a crew of artists are hard at work making sure the parade is a dizzying display for the eyes. KTVU can now take everyone behind the scenes at the final preparations for the Lunar New Year festival and parade.
Lunar New Year 2023: What to know about the Year of the Rabbit
More than a billion people worldwide will celebrate the Year of the Rabbit. Here's what to know about the two-week-long festival.
SF Chinatown prepares to celebrate the year of the rabbit — a time for hope
The sound of firecrackers will be heard in Chinatowns on both sides of the bay this weekend. Chinese New Year falls on Sunday. And the preparations for celebrations are in full swing. This important cultural holiday is focused on family , food and good fortune.
How Dr. King's work still influences fight against poverty in California today
United Way Bay Area released a report last week showing 49% of the calls received on their 2-1-1 helpline in a 3-month period, were about housing insecurity and a lack of basic needs like groceries. The Bay Area group serves about 600,000 households, 80% of them people of color.
Freedom Train attracts new generation of riders for MLK Day
One thousand people boarded Caltrain's Freedom Train Monday for a ride from San Jose to San Francisco to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.
MLK Day: Rev. Bernice King calls for change, bold action instead of just words
America has honored Martin Luther King Jr. with a federal holiday for nearly four decades yet still hasn’t fully embraced and acted on the lessons from the slain civil rights leader, his youngest daughter said Monday.
Here's what is open and closed on MLK Day 2023
The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Jr.‘s birthday on Monday, Jan. 16. The federal holiday means government agencies and many banks will be closed.
What is King-Lee Day? History of the holiday still celebrated in 2 states
King-Lee Day was created to recognize two famed public figures: one, a civil rights leader and prolific orator and the other, a Confederate general.
What's open and closed on Jan. 2, 2023, day after New Year
Because New Year’s Day fell on a Sunday this year, some businesses and offices observe Jan. 2 as the official holiday. Here’s what will still be closed on Monday.
First baby of the New Year arrives at Walnut Creek Kaiser
Baby Ezekiel was the first baby of the New Year in the Bay Area for Kaiser Permanente. He was born at 12:06 a.m. at the Walnut Creek hospital.
'Magical' San Francisco fireworks ring in 2023
After the rain let up many celebrated the new year watching fireworks over San Francisco. One resident called this year's display magical and breathtaking.
New year celebrations around the world, time zone by time zone
The Pacific nation of Kiribati was the first country to greet the new year.
SF New Year's Eve fireworks, big parties are back, despite rainy weather
Crews from Pyro Spectacular by Souza, producing San Francisco's New Year's Eve fireworks show, worked through wind and rain Friday, to load the enormous amount of fireworks shells onto the barge off the pier, putting plastic covers on them to keep them dry. The last time San Francisco held its annual midnight fireworks show was in 2019.