chief engineer

Jaribu Hill didn’t opt for law school until her early 40s. She’d been a singer, actress, teacher and labor organizer before learning a college classmate had become head of a group for black female judges. “I can do that, too,” she thought. Hill has since become a leading civil rights and workers’ rights lawyer in Mississippi and now, at 70,...

Here’s a seemingly simple math question: what is 206 minus 27? If you answered 156 you’d be right – at least if you were driving a Jaguar I-Pace from Detroit’s Metropolitan Wayne County Airport to the suburb of Pleasant Ridge during the recent polar vortex.

Minutes after touching down on Mars, NASA’s InSight spacecraft sent back a “nice and dirty” snapshot of its new digs. Yet the dust-speckled image looked like a work of art to scientists. The photo revealed a mostly smooth and sandy terrain around the spacecraft with only one sizable rock visible. “I’m very, very happy that it looks like we have...

After a six-month trip, NASA’s InSight Spacecraft landed on Mars and sent back its first image of the red planet on Monday.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors held a public hearing Monday on the radiation cleanup scandal at the Hunters Point Shipyard. Representatives from the U.S. Navy, Environmental Protection Agency and a state regulatory agency answered questions from supervisors. But an official from Tetra Tech, the Navy contractor accused of botching the radiation cleanup, was kicked out of the hearing. ...

Caltrans is investigating whether microscopic organisms are attacking critical welds on the submerged foundation of the new Bay Bridge tower, potentially endangering the projected 150-year lifespan of the troubled $6.4 billion structure, NBC Bay Area has learned.

The shooter rapidly fires through the front doors of an elementary school with an assault rifle and blasts his way down the hallway. Screaming children are running for their lives or frozen in fear. Teachers quickly try to decide: barricade the doors, or make a run for it with their students? Police officers arrive with guns drawn, working their way...

Supercar makers have long known that parked next to that snarling Lamborghini, a racing-red Ferrari, or stately Bentley at some of the globe’s toniest addresses is a practical SUV. With the sport utility vehicle market growing by leaps and bounds, they increasingly want in on the profits. Lamborghini unveiled the once-improbable Urus SUV on Monday at its headquarters in Sant’Agata,...

Seth Meyers couldn’t deliver all the news, so his writer Amber helps out. And she’s got something to say about Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump.

Crews began to bore the first of three test holes, each more than 200 feet deep, outside the Millennium Tower on Monday to better assess soil conditions in the areas where the building is sinking and tilting along Mission and Fremont streets.

A confidentiality agreement between a public agency and the developer helped keep the Millennium Tower’s sinking problem from the public starting back in 2010, NBC Bay Area has learned.

The San Francisco Department of Building Inspection was notified that the Millennium Tower was sinking about the same time the first owners started moving into the luxury high-rise in 2009, documents obtained by NBC Bay Area show.

Caltrans has a $10 million plan to keep corrosive Bay water away from high strength rods designed to secure the tower of the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge in a quake.

New Jersey Governor and Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie addressed criticism over his response to flooding at the Jersey Shore.

Southland air regulators Saturday approved a sweeping abatement order aimed at minimizing the three-month-old leak of natural gas from a Porter Ranch-area storage facility.

The lead designer of the Bay Bridge has warned Caltrans that the cable that holds up the new bridge’s eastern span is vulnerable to corrosion because of rainwater leaking into its anchorages.

State officials say tiny cracks found on some of the rods on the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge tower potentially endanger more than 400 remaining fasteners that secure the tower to the foundation in an earthquake.

A NASA spacecraft for the first time has arrived at a dwarf planet to begin a 16-month exploration.