Some Bay Area COVID-19 test sites that are under NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit’s microscope announced Thursday that they will temporarily close.
San Quentin State Prison was the site of one of the country’s worst Covid outbreaks during the early months of the pandemic. More than 2,000 people incarcerated or working at the prison caught the virus in 2020 and 28 people died.
Officials from the California Department of Public Health and Mountain View Police Department are investigating a series of complaints surrounding a Chicago-based COVID-19 testing company operating in the Bay Area.
Records that experts say could shed light on what caused the Millennium Tower to sink and tilt so much last summer are missing, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.
The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged Thursday that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since work began.
The fatal shooting on Tuesday afternoon of an Alameda County Sheriff’s recruit as he was driving westbound on Interstate 580 is the latest incident in a long series of deaths and injuries as gun violence increases on Bay Area freeways.
A project protocol some experts say could have helped prevent further settlement of the troubled Millennium tower was not heeded when crews installed support piles last summer, documents reviewed by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit indicate.
A single father in Oakland is having a rough start to 2022. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen learned he came home on New Year’s Day to find his new apartment destroyed by fire.
Cal Fire has determined the massive Dixie Fire that destroyed nearly 1 million acres across five counties last summer was caused by a tree hitting a PG&E power line.
The designer of the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower announced a new plan Tuesday that would dramatically reduce the originally proposed 52-pile foundation retrofit plan to just 18 foundation piles.
Two parents who first warned police and school officials about the Los Gatos mom accused of teen sex and drinking parties, Shannon O’Connor, told NBC Bay Area they were failed by school and police authorities, putting more children in harm’s way.
Federal prosecutors announced Friday that former San Francisco Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru has agreed to plead guilty to fraud in the city’s ongoing corruption scandal, a deal that involves dropping charges of lying to the FBI and money laundering, and prosecutors seeking no more than a nine-year prison term.
California’s attorney general announced Wednesday a civil rights investigation into the office of Santa Clara County Sheriff Laurie Smith, a polarizing figure who is fighting formal public corruption accusations.
As the pandemic rages on, eviction protections have dried up for millions of Californians, including the longtime residents of a San Pablo apartment complex now being kicked out by their new landlord who says he needs to renovate the building. Investigative Reporter Candice Nguyen has the story.
