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State increases monitoring of Oakland 911 center
Oakland’s 911 emergency call center is facing more oversight from state regulators amid the city’s yearslong failure to bring answering times down to the mandated standard.
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Oakland tries to make dent in abandoned car problem
The City of Oakland is spending millions of dollars to haul away thousands of cars dumped in the streets every month, but abandoned vehicles continue to show up lining the streets and railroad tracks.
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Exclusive: Oakland will not meet state's deadline to fix 911 response times
After July 26, Oakland is expected to lose state funding for its emergency communications center and be forced to reroute all its 911 calls through another agency’s calling center.
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Why are so many seniors facing eviction in Oakland?
An NBC Bay Area analysis found more than 350 eviction notices were sent to low-income seniors during Oakland’s eviction moratorium.
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PG&E reliability hits new low with anti-fire settings
PG&E suffered its worst reliability in decades, new data shows, as the company embraced new technology to shut off power immediately after incidents to prevent sparking wildfires.
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Real Estate Investment Company at Center of ‘Moms 4 Housing' Saga Hit with $3.5 Million Judgment
The California Attorney General’s Office has issued a $3.5 million judgement against Southern California real estate investment company Wedgewood Inc., which owned the Oakland home famously occupied by the unhoused mothers from Moms 4 Housing in 2019.
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California Seeks to Close Loophole Allowing Schools to Be Built Near Toxic Sites
California lawmakers are pushing for new regulations after the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit exposed how a lack of oversight in the construction of private schools may be posing a health risk to hundreds of thousands of students.
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Bay Area Sewage Systems at Risk as Seas Rise
When sewage spewed out of a shower in a San Francisco home, climate change experts say it may be a sign of things to come as sea levels rise around the Bay. An NBC Bay Area investigation reveals how low-lying sewage treatment plants could fail in the coming years, four of those facilities are vulnerable to flooding within the next...
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Oakland Landlords Send Hundreds of Eviction Notices for Non-Payment Despite City's Moratorium
Oakland landlords have sent hundreds of eviction notices to tenants during the pandemic, despite the city’s current moratorium banning most evictions, according to records obtained by NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit.
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Hunters Point Testing May Defy US Rules
Preliminary testing done by the U.S. Navy to establish baseline cleanup levels of the old Hunters Point shipyard has been done on the site itself, something that appears to be prohibited under the federal government’s own cleanup guidelines, The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned.
