Brisbane News

Expanding a successful online business to a downtown storefront might seem risky these days, but it made sense to Mark and Carter Bolick, the design team behind India Rose.

A lookout was chosen to hold open the door. An invasion song was selected. "OK, when I say go, we go! No hesitation, or the maitre d' has time to throw us out," said ringleader Paul Rogers.

Voters delivered a surprise election victory to City Council newcomer Cliff Lentz on Tuesday night, sending current City Councilman Michael Barnes to the sidelines.

Early results showed Brisbane's transit occupancy tax measure set to succeed on Tuesday night, with 57.43 percent of voters in favor as of 8:30 p.m. The measure needed a simple majority to pass.

Oct. 30--Six cities in San Mateo County are looking to boost their hotel tax rates in an effort to balance their budgets without increasing the tax burden on local residents.

Joining the growing list of Peninsula cities that require development projects to be more environmentally friendly, the Redwood City City Council unanimously passed the city's first green building ordinance last week.

October 20, 2009, Brisbane, Calif., -- The new AskBob online community , a unique forum connecting aviation maintenance professionals and the aviation industry, celebrates its one year anniversary this month with phenomenal growth that reached over 46,000 unique page views in September from over 11,000 visitors.

City managers in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties have united to cut retirement benefits for new hires, saying taxpayers should no longer have to fund employee pension costs that have skyrocketed out of control.

John Greenlee has targeted the Great American Lawn - that notorious sink of fossil fuels, water, chemicals and spare time - for destruction.

San Bruno Mountain Watch Conservancy invites you to 23 Club, 23 Visitacion Avenue in Brisbane to celebrate San Bruno Mountain Watch Conservancy's 40th Anniversary, Sunday, October 25 from 5 to 9 p.m. Cover charge $15 includes dinner of baked ziti , salad, bread, and cookie buffet.

October 20, 2009, Brisbane, Calif., -- The AskBob online aviation maintenance forum today announced a new supplier directory for aviation maintenance professionals.

Pedestrians and bicyclists can now travel eight miles without stopping along the Bayshore between South San Francisco and Brisbane.

San Bruno Mountain Watch Conservancy invites you to 23 Club, 23 Visitacion Avenue in Brisbane to celebrate San Bruno Mountain Watch Conservancy's 40th Anniversary, Sunday, October 25 from 5 to 9 p.m. Cover charge $15 includes dinner of baked ziti , salad, bread, and cookie buffet.

The next four years will be decisive in planning and launching a long-anticipated mixed-use development on the Brisbane Baylands, a 600-acre former landfill partly contaminated with toxic trash.

One of the best comments we heard in two weeks of meetings with candidates in the Nov.

BRISBANE, Calif. Walmart.com is looking to go head-to-head with online retailers of health-and-beauty aids by offering home delivery of such products.

Are you based in San Francisco? If so, you might be interested in the Inhabitat SF newsletter: your up-to-date list of the coolest green events and exhibitions taking place in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The American Bookbinders Museum is only open Saturday afternoons. But on any weekday you can go around the corner and find the museum's founder, financier, curator, display builder and text writer.

Rosanna Wagner knew it was time to get serious about creating a charter high school in Brisbane when her daughter Amanda went to a party to celebrate graduating from Lipman Middle School in 2007.

I had the misfortune to be driving part of the way on Highway 1 from San Simeon to Carmel behind a giant tractor-trailer. Why a tractor-trailer would even be allowed on this road is probably a tale of trucking industry lobbying in the California Legislature.