PG&E recently acknowledged that it intends to have customers pay for an ongoing $6 million ad campaign, calling it “safety communications.” But critics say the utility shouldn’t be allowed to tap funds earmarked to help prevent wildfires on what they consider blatantly promotional commercials.
An Oakland grandmother says her former son-in-law, killed in an armed confrontation over her stolen property, might be alive if Oakland police officers responded to more than a dozen calls the family made as they tracked their pilfered devices across the city.
Although a fire appeared to take down an affordable housing project in Redwood City, one half of it is still standing.
In a late-night move Wednesday, Antioch Unified School District trustee Mary Rocha called for board members to “discuss the potential removal of Board President Antonio Hernandez from his position as president.”
When a VTA bus driver was threatened by a passenger with a 17-inch blade machete, his panic button alert did not go straight to law enforcement, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit found.
The University of California was hit with a lawsuit Wednesday alleging it severely mishandled a sexual assault allegation from one of its employees.
The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit spoke to 30 school crossing guards stationed at more than 20 schools across San Francisco and found nearly one in four said they experienced a “close call” in the crosswalk with an autonomous vehicle.
An NBC Bay Area analysis found more than 350 eviction notices were sent to low-income seniors during Oakland’s eviction moratorium.
From homicides, to shootings and car break-ins, Oakland police say crime is trending down. Even amid signs of progress, people have still reported about 20 car break-ins on average every day this year, according to the Oakland Police Department’s (OPD) CrimeWatch database.
There’s an issue involving Uber and Lyft. Some people who are legally blind say rideshare drivers are seeing their service dogs and cancelling their rides. They say what these companies are doing is humiliating, and illegal.
Six years after first approving new lighting as a safety measure, BART has yet to install the brighter LED lights engineers say will aid evacuation in the darkened subway tunnel running under San Francisco – leaving critics to wonder, how long does it take for BART to change a light bulb?
The majority of the crowd at Wednesday’s Antioch Unified School District meeting expressed frustration after the school board voted to not remove superintendent Stephanie Anello.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a city-wide ban of what are known as ‘PFAS’ or ‘forever chemicals,’ but replacement options still aren’t widely available and those that are seem be raising new safety concerns.
Antioch Unified School District Director of Maintenance, Operations and Facilities Kenneth (Ken) Turnage has been placed on administrative leave following an NBC Bay Area investigation into employee bullying claims.
In Costa Contra County, a new state Medi-Cal benefit called “Enhanced Care Management” is accused of ignoring medical needs, sources familiar with the system tell NBC Bay Area.
Advocates and former female firefighters say cultural issues in the San Jose Fire Department have fueled recent scandals and made life on the job tough for women in the service.
New numbers show the commute is getting a little safer for Bay Area drivers after a spike in freeway violence during the pandemic.
