Safety
By Holly Kernan on Jul 26 2010 - 1:46pm
Oakland is often in the headlines for its crime, but it’s also a leader in devising a new strategy to address public safety: it’s called Measure Y and the voters passed it in 2004.
The measure was a parcel tax to beef up the city’s public safety services and make them focus more on preventing...
By Ben Trefny on Apr 5 2010 - 3:42pm
Here's some additional audio of our interview with Chris Poland, Chairman and CEO of the structural engineering firm Degenkolb. Here, he talks with KALW's Ben Trefny about how Bay Area earthquakes from 1906 to Loma Prieta have helped structural engineers design safer buildings, and what San...
By Ben Trefny on Apr 5 2010 - 3:14pm
Officials are still surveying damage caused by the magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck yesterday near Mexicali, on Mexico's Baja Peninsula. While only two deaths have been reported so far, the damage is extensive in places like the California border town of Calexico. Officials there have declared...
By Steven Short on Nov 13 2009 - 9:20am
A death on the S-curve of the Bay Bridge, along with scores of accidents, has CHP officers closely monitoring the speed of motorists. Read all about it!
By Crosscurrents Producer on Oct 14 2009 - 10:39am
The weather is starting to cool off a bit, but it’s still fire season across California. It was late October, eighteen years ago, when a fire raged through the Oakland hills, killing 25 people and destroying thousands of homes. Since then, firefighters in the Bay Area have been using a new...
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