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PG&E becomes California's most expensive power provider
On Jan. 1, PG&E started charging 13% more for power. The rate hike – expected to cost an average family another $33 a month – will pay to bury power lines and other wildfire mitigation efforts. But it is likely to be just the beginning of the pain.
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PG&E contractor's bungling sparked 2021 fire
PG&E was fined $1 million recently by state regulators who concluded that a fire in the Sierra foothills two years ago was sparked by the careless bungling and mismanaged response of its contract crew.
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Several wineries accuse Napa County of violating their constitutional rights
Three wineries which accuse Napa County of violating their constitutional rights have asked the California Attorney General and U.S. Attorney to get involved in their case
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7 Dead, 1 Injured in Half Moon Bay Mass Shooting; Suspect in Custody
Seven people were killed in a mass shooting that spanned two separate scenes in Half Moon Bay Monday afternoon, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
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Convertible Reported Stolen in '92 Found Buried in Yard of $15 Million Calif. Mansion
A former owner of the $15 million Atherton estate where a buried car was discovered Thursday had reported the vehicle stolen NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned. He also had a decades long history of arrests for fraud and even homicide.
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Landscapers Discover Car Buried Decades Ago in Backyard
Landscapers found a car buried in an Atherton backyard Thursday morning, police said.
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San Francisco Man Dies After Being Handcuffed, Held Down by Police and Fire Crews
Authorities are investigating the death of a 35-year-old man who twice told police and fire crews he couldn’t breathe as he was being held, face-down, after being handcuffed for several minutes, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has learned.
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San Francisco Police Officers Charged with Destroying Evidence
Two San Francisco police officers surrendered Tuesday to face charges of destroying evidence, while a retired officer, who had been working part-time with the gun destruction unit at the SFPD evidence room, faces unrelated felony charges of taking a soon-to-be-destroyed MP5 submachine gun and silencer home from the property room, authorities said.
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‘Things I Regret' Journal Entry Key in Cracking 29-Year-Old Cold Case
The break in a decades-old cold case came from a lucky break by out-of-state police. Law enforcement officials will not discuss how they solved the case, but the NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has learned it started with Oklahoma police finding a private journal with a confession to a crime nearly 1,500 miles away.
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San Francisco Skyscraper Tilting 3 Inches Per Year as Race to Fix Underway
The engineer responsible for the troubled fix of the Millennium Tower acknowledged Thursday that the building is continuing to tilt about 3 inches a year since work began.
