While the NorCal Vietnamese Chamber of Commerce has been holding the Lunar New Year for the past 15 years, this is the first time it's in Elk Grove. "Every year it's grown bigger and bigger.

The celebrations continue from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building with a night market featuring local artisans, food vendors, lion dances, and craft activities.

For the Vietnamese, it is the year of the wood snake. Organizers add that Saturday night's celebration is to "remember, recreate and retain" their heritage in their adopted homeland.

YORK, Pa. — People across the state are ringing in the Lunar New Year with celebrations, culture and traditions. Viet Thai Café, a Vietnamese and Thai fusion restaurant, is celebrating Tết ...

The fall of Saigon, about two years after Washington withdrew its last combat troops from the country, marked the end of a 20-year conflict that killed some 3 million Vietnamese and nearly 60,000 ...

Since then, with the arrival of Koreans in the 1950s and '60s and Vietnamese in the 1970s, the Lunar New Year celebrations in San Francisco remain one of North America's grandest and most diverse.