Three Mendocino County marijuana farmers and a former police officer from Texas have filed a new federal lawsuit alleging widespread theft, corruption, and coverups among law enforcement officials policing the Emerald Triangle, the Northern California region world-renown for the cannabis grown there.
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) stopped publishing key data about a massive job training program for foreign students following a joint investigation between NBC Bay Area and NBC News that found evidence of fraud.
An independent drilling expert acknowledged to city officials earlier this month that testing crews had trouble meeting standards designed to prevent more settlement with the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower, according to documents obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.
Car break-ins are a huge concern in San Francisco for locals, and tourists. They’re relentless, expensive and seem unmanageable. But why and who’s to blame? The police and the DA pointing fingers at each other. NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has more.
A new audit questions San Francisco’s ties to a non-profit organization that’s embroiled in the middle of a public bribery scandal. Federal prosecutors say it was being used by Public Works as, essentially, a $1 million slush fund.
San Francisco building inspection officials approved a major new test for the troubled Millennium Tower fix project.
Thousands of guns that were illegally possessed or tied to a suspected crime are likely going untraced by the federal government because law enforcement agencies across the state are failing to properly log them in the state’s firearms database.
More than 80 families have come forward alleging elder neglect and financial abuse as part of a federal lawsuit targeting the largest senior living provider in the country.
PG&E officials admit their program to cut power to neighborhoods at the first sign of trouble was a “sledgehammer” approach – but stressed that the program likely cut the number of fires this year.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin will officially be forced into a recall election next June, according to an Elections Department document obtained by the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit.
While District Attorney Chesa Boudin is praising his office’s new public data dashboards, his critics warn the newly released statistics fall short of painting a clear picture of how Boudin’s office is prosecuting dangerous offenders.
An NBC Bay Area investigation reveals a present danger from toxic materials, some buried more than a century ago.
Speaking publicly for the first time since the so-called fix of the Millennium Tower caused the high-rise to suddenly sink and tilt more, the fix’s lead designer testified Thursday that the building could lean more than six feet and still safely withstand a massive earthquake.
If it seems like wildfires are becoming more frequent and destructive, you’re not imagining it. An analysis of wildfire data obtained by NBC owned television stations shows California has seen more megafires in the last 20 years than the previous 100 years combined.
PG&E has agreed to pay a $40 million fine and another $85 million to properly decommission a total of 70 unused transmission lines like the one that sparked the Kincade fire two years ago, according to a deal announced by state regulators.
After 22 months on the job, Good Samaritan Hospital’s Director of Nursing for Women Services Stefanie Sonico has been let go from the San Jose facility.
Testimony in the now-settled litigation over the Millennium Tower reveals that one engineer on the nearby public transit project estimated anchoring a tower like the now sinking and tilting Millennium to bedrock would have cost about $4 million more.
