Jaxon Van Derbeken

BART officials warned the head of the Valley Transportation Authority in 2017 that the single-bore tunnel design planned for the San Jose extension posed “serious risks to safety.”

Power bills have skyrocketed in the Bay Area as the Pacific Gas and Electric Company uses the funds to bury power lines, clear trees from its distribution grid, and fix storm damage.

A high-rise window broke Wednesday, sending chunks of glass down into a car parked on the street below in downtown Oakland, authorities say.

PG&E has agreed to pay a $1.7 million fine for failing to promptly alert nearly 150,000 customers that they were going to be hit by public safety

Eight years after the deadly Ghost Ship exposed significant lapses in Oakland's fire prevention efforts, the city recently cut the ranks of its fire inspectors by more than a third, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit has learned.

After UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killing, a San Francisco officer saw a resemblance in a missing persons report for Luigi Mangione and police contacted his mother, sources said.

Prosecutors presented evidence of a string of ten explosions to the Alameda County grand jury that ultimately indicted operators of a West Oakland metal recycling facility on hazardous waste charges related to a fire there last year. Jaxon van Derbeken reports.

BART officials say they have started to implement a $4.3 million plan to limit the sudden braking glitch that hobbles cars on its new fleet in wet weather.

A plan to provide firefighters in Los Angeles and Orange counties almost limitless seawater to fight fires has been stalled for more than a decade, despite the ever-looming threat of mass fires fueled by quakes and high winds. “I think the fire service just didn’t see the need for it in Southern California,” recalled Charles Scawthorn, a UC Berkeley researcher…

Fire crews in Los Angeles County said the main thing impacting their efforts to extinguish blazes has been a lack of water.