
A look at air quality monitors in the Bay Area
The current unhealthy, smoky air is making some wonder about the limited number of air quality monitors throughout the Bay Area.
The current unhealthy, smoky air is making some wonder about the limited number of air quality monitors throughout the Bay Area.
An independent report commissioned by San Francisco building officials has concluded that nearly all of the 31 high-rise window failures reported during March’s windstorms actually occurred well before the heavy winds.
For the second time, a former employee is threatening to sue Oakland over allegations of harassment and misconduct within the city’s Department of Violence Prevention.
Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on Monday announced the city would be investing an additional $2.5 million to its 911 response system.
With industrywide staffing shortages, 911 answering times quadrupling mandated standards and more people saying they’re losing trust in their city’s ability to respond to emergency, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit took a closer look at state and federal oversight of 911 centers.
New monitoring data shows that while the $100 million Millennium Tower fix appears to have stopped further sinking and tilting, the building is not reversing the lean at the rate predicted by engineers.
With all the resources going into reducing the open-air drug markets in San Francisco, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has been looking into the data to find out if the stepped-up effort is getting results.
Hundreds of driverless cars are now an everyday part of traffic in San Francisco, but how safe are they and how do they compare to human drivers? Google’s Waymo, one of the largest driverless car companies in the city, just released a new study that attempts to shed light on its own track record.
Staffing shortages are the norm these days in local and city businesses in the Bay Area.
A lay Catholic commune with roots in the Bay Area hippie movement is now the target of multiple child sexual abuse lawsuits.
The head of San Francisco’s Community Challenge grant program formally entered a not guilty plea Thursday to 30 felony corruption charges that include misappropriating public funds, bribery and conflict of interest allegations.
The head of a San Francisco city grant program, together with a former top city official, face corruption charges for an alleged four-year scheme to misappropriate tax dollars to line their own pockets, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Large conventions and conferences have slowed down a bit in San Francisco since the pandemic, but projections for 2024 are bleak.
PG&E suffered its worst reliability in decades, new data shows, as the company embraced new technology to shut off power immediately after incidents to prevent sparking wildfires.
Housing is not the only problem in the Bay Area. There’s also too much vacant office space. NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has been tracking the growing office vacancy rates in the region and how those numbers compare to cities across the country.
St. Ignatius College Preparatory School in San Francisco is explaining how it handled the situation involving a former drama director accused of kissing a freshman student years ago.
The Los Gatos mother accused of hosting alcohol-fueled parties for minors was due in court Monday ahead of an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Tuesday, but she reportedly did not show.
For nearly 50 years, Peter Devine has been a fixture of St. Ignatius College Preparatory School, running the drama program and teaching English at the well-known San Francisco Catholic high school.