You see them everywhere after the Olympics, the beaming faces and chiseled physiques of superstar athletes on everything from cereal boxes to athletic shoe ads. Here is what you don’t see: The countless other Olympians who will never get a lucrative endorsement deal, who toil in relative obscurity, who struggle to pay their bills and balance work schedules with intense...

A New York City condominium project is being watched closely by building inspectors after an I-Team investigation revealed more than a dozen construction workers smoking what looked and smelled like marijuana – and then heading back to work alongside heavy machinery.

Years after a massive fire at Chevron’s Richmond Refinery that spewed a toxic cloud across the East Bay, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit finds serious safety violations.

Prime real estate or toxic mess? Hunters Point in San Francisco is one of the largest redevelopment projects in the Bay Area. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit first revealed, Tetra Tech, the government contractor cleaning up the former Superfund site admitted to mishandling soil samples and falsifying data. Now, a former worker explains how he claims it all happened....

The future is bright for those harnessing the sun’s energy to transmit power across California.

Shipping containers full of coal ash from China, Poland and India have come into the U.S. through the Port of Virginia as foreign companies find a market for the same industrial waste that America’s utilities are struggling to dispose of. Critics call it a missed opportunity. Coal ash is treasure as well as trash, useful for projects from roads to...

For Caltrans crews, Tuesday was a notable and emotional day on the job as they returned to a job site on Highway 17 for the first time since a colleague was killed last week in a freak accident.

Kyung Kim sat for three days in the dark as 2 feet of water invaded her home.

The burn-related death of a Central Texas utility worker while on duty has been classified as a murder.

Prime real estate or toxic mess? Hunters Point in San Francisco is one of the largest redevelopment projects in the Bay Area. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit first revealed Tetra Tech, the government contractor cleaning up the former Superfund site, admitted to mishandling soil samples and falsifying data. Now, a former worker explains how he claims it all happened….

A new report revealed 12 of the most bizarre late-to-work excuses, and the list contains a bear, a lizard, and a lot of Vaseline.

Residents in the Oakley area may smell the odor of natural gas Sunday as PG&E conducts planned safety work as part of a pipeline upgrade project.

San Francisco and San Jose are among the best cities in the country to find work, according to a new survey.

A Bay Area developer and his project manager on Tuesday were found by a jury to be guilty of involuntary manslaughter after one of their workers was killed on a job site.

A Bay Area developer and his project manager on Tuesday were found by a jury to be guilty of involuntary manslaughter after one of their workers was killed on a job site. Damian Trujillo reports.

A fatal attack at a Bally’s Total Fitness last week may have been motivated by a boyfriend’s jealousy, prosecutors said Monday, as a 46-year-old plumber was charged with murder and possessing metal knuckles.