The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced Friday the creation of a new equity team tasked with investigating and combatting disparities in the denial of benefits for Black vets.

The allegations come at a time when Catholic dioceses across California are being hit with a wave of new child sex abuse lawsuits enabled by a recent state law.

San Jose police have arrested two more family members of a young girl killed during an apparent exorcism inside a small San Jose church.

A notorious defrocked Oakland priest accused of sexually abusing dozens of children was arrested Saturday night after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving drunk in a Walnut Creek retirement community, NBC Bay Area’s Investigative Unit has confirmed.

A new push in U.S. Senate for legislation to stop deportation of immigrant veterans for minor crimes.

Three Mendocino County marijuana farmers and a former police officer from Texas have filed a new federal lawsuit alleging widespread theft, corruption, and coverups among law enforcement officials policing the Emerald Triangle, the Northern California region world-renown for the cannabis grown there.

While access to COVID-19 testing proved to be somewhat easier for the wealthy and well connected, experts say vaccine availability will be tightly controlled and difficult for ineligible recipients to obtain.

The Investigative Unit examines how a local pandemic shut-down order forced a San Mateo family out of their own home, they say.

Amid a rapidly-spreading coronavirus outbreak that’s infected about a third of all people incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison, dozens of COVID-19 positive prisoners declared a hunger strike this week in protest of what they call “dismal” living conditions during their quarantine, according to sources inside the prison.

Some local teams have adopted headgear – the soft-shell helmets designed for the girls’ game – but most players still choose not to wear them.