Bay Area Congresswoman Pushes Funding For 'Next Generation' 911 System
The "Next Generation 911" system would allow callers to text, send photos and video to 911 dispatch centers.
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The "Next Generation 911" system would allow callers to text, send photos and video to 911 dispatch centers.
San Jose leaders had been hoping to put a sales tax increase on the November ballot, but Tuesday they decided to shelve that idea until next year. This comes despite recent police layoffs and cuts to other city services.
San Francisco Supervisors have voted to strengthen the city's minimum wage law. The board approved the wage theft legislation to stop employers from forcing workers, in particular home health care workers, from toiling for long hours for less than the city's minimum wage of $9.92 an hour.
The San Jose City Council on Tuesday voted to move forward with a deal that would annex a neighborhood in unincorporated Santa Clara County to the city of Campbell.
City officials will be facing another huge budget shortfall meaning that pension reform will be a hot topic in the upcoming year.
San Francisco is taking on crisis pregnancy centers in the city, arguing that they are pushing a misleading agenda.
Construction remains halted on Oakland International Airport's new control tower as the FAA shutdown is expected to continue into September.
A bill that would have made it illegal pay a per-signature fee to companies that circulate ballot petitions was vetoed Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
About 100 people gathered outside San Francisco City Hall Monday to encourage Ed Lee to run for mayor in November.
San Jose State Economics Professor Jeff Hummel has said it would have been a good thing if the government had defaulted on its debt.
Health insurance plans must cover birth control as preventive care for women, with no copays, the Obama administration said Monday in a decision with far-reaching implications for health care as well as social mores.
Nearly half of all Californians think the Tea Party political movement is bad for the nation, according to a new KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll designed to gauge voter attitudes about the latest federal budget deal struck on Capitol Hill.
Newark school officials are focused on a $65 million bond measure as a way to bring much-needed improvements to its schools.
Oakland's new city administrator starts her new job this week with a salary that's $9,000 over top scale. The KCBS and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier said this comes as city workers have had their pay slashed.
The debt plan's details are minimal at this point, but it would add to the nation's debt limit in a two-part package, while slicing $1 trillion in federal spending over the next decade.
