Dan Brekke

The Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) was designed from the beginning to be a ‘trunk line’ that would bring commuters and shoppers into Oakland and San Francisco from the suburbs.

The postponement comes after a fired Berkeley police officer accused his former supervisor of sending racist text messages and engaging in other misconduct.

Environmental Democracy Project says the city is violating state law by granting virtually automatic approvals to cannabis growing operations with no environmental reviews.

Remembering a craftsman and artist who built built an incomparable record of his native city in a career that spanned more than seven decades.”

Regional air district has filed an injunction request in Alameda County seeking to force Denver-based Green Sage to shut down the massive diesel engines. The district is also seeking penalties of up to $175,000 per day for alleged violations of earlier shutdown orders.

Citing the dangers posed to nearby residents by high levels of diesel exhaust, groups filed a Prop. 65 notice of violation with California’s attorney general to get cannabis landlords to halt use of generators to power its buildings.

After more than a year of complaints from residents of a historic artists’ live/work building in East Oakland, the city is telling a Denver-based company to stop using the industrial-sized generators or face possible criminal charges.

By disrupting the world of work and our travel routines, COVID-19 in all its endless variants is proving to be an affliction from which it will take public transportation years and years to recover.

Economic justice advocates are calling for major reforms in a system that has left scores of drivers, often with lower incomes, facing debts of thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars.

The company’s report outlines the underlying causes of a spill at a refinery wharf that spread an oily sheen for miles across the bay in February.

The judge overseeing the utility’s probation is seeking answers about a drone that reportedly interfered with Cal Fire aircraft during the first hours of the fire that has grown to become the largest single-origin (non-complex) fire in modern California history.

PG&E says Cal Fire investigators seized evidence from where the fire was first spotted after a tree made contact with a power line, just 5 miles from where another line ignited the Camp Fire in 2018.

There are a lot of crows in the Bay Area, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

State regulators adopted new rules for PG&E and other utilities that decide to shut down power lines to curb the risk of catastrophic fires.

Complaint blames agency for $120 million in claimed losses and seeks double or triple damages.

The first 10 cars of long-awaited new fleet are expected to launch midday Friday after a ceremony in Oakland.

A weekend of extreme heat could break all-time high-temperature records in some inland locales.

UC Berkeley expert says partial disintegration of concrete structure was the end result of critical defects dating back to the 1960s.

Amendment to spending bill would end current practice of allowing battle flag to fly two days a year.

A millionaire wanted to own a whole city block. A neighbor refused to sell. The result was legendary.