A Leigh High School student who is hard of hearing says he’s reading at a second, third grade level but was issued a diploma anyway.
After more than two years of negotiations, member countries of the United Nations failed to meet their own deadline this past weekend of striking a global agreement to curb plastic waste.
While one department leads the nation when it comes to the number of women in the ranks, women are still vastly underrepresented in Bay Area firehouses. Some are now searching for answers on how to boost recruitment.
NBC Bay Area investigates the big problem created by small plastics.
The State 911 Advisory Board was left wondering why they were never informed about some of the issues exposed in the report. They are now demanding more transparency from the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
Eight years after the deadly Ghost Ship exposed significant lapses in Oakland’s fire prevention efforts, the city recently cut the ranks of its fire inspectors by more than a third, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.
For Dan Adams, it was set to be “the vacation of a lifetime.”
A State 911 Advisory Board member said he was blindsided by serious public safety concerns regarding California’s Next Generation 911 project recently exposed in an NBC Bay Area investigation, noting the board has largely been kept in the dark about the extent of those issues by the state and its contractors.
Bishop O’Dowd High, a private Catholic school in Oakland, fired an English teacher for “insubordination” after she refused to stop wearing a pin bearing the Palestinian flag and the words “Free Palestine.”
NBC Bay Area Consumer Investigator Chris Chmura shares some recent wins from the NBC Bay Area Responds team.
California’s massive overhaul of its aging, landline-based emergency call system is years behind schedule and has been plagued by safety issues, sources and documents report.
