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Napa Valley wineries serve up new ‘experiences' amid sobering economic downturn
Tourism to Napa Valley historically brings in more than $2 billion each year, but fewer visitors and higher costs have winemakers across the region worried about an increasingly difficult financial landscape. “It’s not just the big guys that are getting hurt, it’s not just the little guys that getting hurt, it’s everybody in between,” said Christi Ficeli, owner of...
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Coastal farmworkers feel the squeeze: ‘The money coming in just isn't enough'
Working full-time picking strawberries and watering trees for minimum wage wasn’t enough to put food on his family’s table, so Pescadero farmworker Margarito Gomez said he decided to grow his own.
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BART says cracks on new fleet gearboxes ‘not a safety concern'
Cracks have been found on the gearboxes of dozens of BART’s Fleet of the Future train cars – sometimes after only one year in service – according to a new analysis ordered by state regulators and obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit under the state’s Public Records Act.
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‘It's hard to be here, but we are here': SF Black Wall Street expands its mission
A nonprofit in the Bay Area wants to expand in hopes of preserving Black culture and businesses.
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Firefighter's insurance battle has Mayor Lurie concerned for other first responders
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says Blue Shield of California’s decision to deny cancer treatment for a longtime firefighter late last year now has him concerned about thousands of other city employees and retirees who maintain their city-backed health insurance plans through Blue Shield.
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Blue Shield explains why doctor's 3-hour call to insurance company led nowhere
Blue Shield of California says a “routing” problem with its internal phone system, and not the merits of a San Francisco firefighter’s insurance appeal, is to blame for why the patient’s oncologist was unable to submit his appeal over the phone after calling the number listed on Blue Shield’s denial letter and spending hours on the call.
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After failed 911 calls, man's death may be linked to California's flawed upgrade
When Rickey Spivey Towner had a heart attack in his Coachella Valley home last September, his stepdaughter Megan Conner found him unconscious and called 911. But there was a problem: The equipment used to answer 911 calls at the Desert Hot Springs Police Department malfunctioned and Conner couldn’t connect with a dispatcher for more than two minutes, according to dispatch…
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Are GLP-1 compounds safe? Not from this SF company and WA supplier, whistleblowers say
A San Francisco-based weight loss startup, Mochi Health, is currently under a firestorm of scrutiny after working with pharmaceutical supplier Aqueita Pharmacy.
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Exclusive: Cain Velasquez sits down for first TV interview since release from prison
Former UFC champion Cain Velasquez sat down with NBC Bay Area for his first television interview since serving time in prison for attempted murder.
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Here's why California's $456M 911 upgrade went sideways: sources, records indicate
Newly released internal records show insiders on California’s troubled $456 million Next Generation 911 project lost confidence in the system’s chief architect years before he left the state agency overseeing the overhaul.
