Traffic was halted on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Thursday after a man threatened to blow up the bridge, California Highway Patrol spokesman Trent Cross said. No explosives were found, Cross said.
In an age when cell phones dominate, calling 911 might not always be the best way to report an emergency.
The San Francisco Bay Bridge reopens, nearly a week after two steel rods and a crossbeam plummeted from the bridge.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday, six days after two steel rods and a steel crossbeam plummeted from the span and caused a traffic nightmare for hundreds of thousands of commuters.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will remain closed Monday morning, and officials said Sunday that they can't predict exactly when it will open for business again.
Authorities are taking steps to prevent the San Francisco Bay Bridge from failing after discovering a crack.
A piece of steel and cable fell from the San Francisco Bay Bridge onto the roadway Tuesday, causing an apparently minor two-car accident but backing up traffic for miles, the California Highway Patrol said.
Millions of Californians will duck for cover Thursday morning in one of the largest earthquake drills in the world.
Transportation officials say it wasn't possible to close only one lane of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
The pilot of a tanker that crashed into the San Francisco Bay Bridge in 2007, causing a major oil spill, was under the influence of multiple prescription medications that impaired his judgment, federal officials said in a report Wednesday.
The crew of the ship that ran into the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and spilled thousands of gallons of oil into the water last week has retained lawyers and is not complying with requests for interviews from the National Transportation Safety Board, a board member said Wednesday.
The U.S. Coast Guard announces a federal criminal probe into the San Francisco Bay oil spill.
Federal investigators have launched a criminal probe into a cargo ship collision and oil spill, the Coast Guard said, which killed hundreds of birds in San Francisco Bay.
Coast Guard video shows damage to a container ship that bumped into the San Francisco Bay Bridge, causing an oil spill.
A National Transportation Safety Board team was on its way to California Saturday to probe why a container ship struck the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earlier this week, spilling 58,000 gallons of oil into the water.
An oil spill fouled miles of coastline Thursday, sending environmentalists scrambling to save tarred marine life
A peregrine falcon shrieked from above as scientists snatched three eggs from a precarious nest under a bridge, to save the chicks from a possible deadly fall or car collision when they hatch.
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