Fremont

Workers at the Tesla factory in Fremont are planning a protest Thursday over alleged mistreatment during the coronavirus pandemic, accusing Tesla of firing workers who refuse to work over COVID-19 concerns.

Three former employees at Tesla’s factory in Fremont reportedly were fired after accepting the company’s offer to opt out of returning to work for fear of being exposed to the coronavirus.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed Monday that the company has restarted its Bay Area factory, a move that defied local government orders involving measures to contain the coronavirus.

Tesla is reopening its Fremont, California, plant Friday despite county public health orders against such nonessential businesses, according to a CNBC report citing company emails.

Tesla has asked some of its Fremont factory employees to return to work this week and resume production despite county public health orders requiring minimum operations, according to a report from CNBC citing company emails.

Police in Fremont arrested a 16-year-old boy after an officer’s patrol vehicle was rammed by a car that had been reported stolen as the officer was attempting to stop the car.

Two dozen dogs that endured a scary ride at the hands of a van thief will soon be reunited with their owners, and police are still searching for several dogs believed to have been sold by the suspect.

The first data from an experiment in a California city where needy people get $500 a month from the government shows they spend most of it on things such as food, clothing and utility bills.

A police officer in Fremont was driving the department’s Tesla Model S patrol car Friday night when, according to a report from the East Bay Times, he became involved in a “felony vehicle” pursuit – and then received warning that he only had about six miles of battery life left.

This probably does not come as much of a surprise to Bay Area drivers. Examining the 100 largest U.S. cities and determining which are the best to drive in, WalletHub found that Oakland and San Francisco are the second and fourth worst, respectively.

Hundreds of Fremont residents showed up at a City Hall meeting Tuesday to oppose a proposal that could put a homeless navigation center at one of two sites in the area.

An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals the approval process to build a private school in Silicon Valley right next to a concrete plant was the result of an unfortunate chain of events, that included inaccurate permit applications, poor communication between government agencies, and other bureaucratic blunders.

Tesla’s security team sent a warning to employees this week to stop leaking company information. The email, which was shared with CNBC and verified with multiple current employees who requested anonymity, warned that outsiders who “will do anything to see us fail” are “targeting” employees for information via social networks and other methods.

When high school junior Tanvi Barman was a little girl, her mother used to take her and her sister to a local homeless shelter to help serve meals. Starting in 8th grade, Tanvi began organizing cakes, entertainment, and pizza for kids at shelters. She’s done more than 30 parties since and is serving five different shelters.

East Bay investigators say they caught a would-be rapist just in time.

A San Francisco Bay Area priest has been arrested on 30 counts of suspected child sexual abuse, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office announced Sunday.

An East Bay woman said she was denied from seeing her dying father by Washington Hospital staff in Fremont minutes before he passed away Friday morning but the hospital said it was due to a safety issue.

Farmer Jeff Jorgenson looks out over 750 acres of cropland submerged beneath the swollen Missouri River, and he knows he probably won’t plant this year. But that’s not his biggest worry. He and other farmers have worked until midnight for days to move grain, equipment and fuel barrels away from the floodwaters fed by heavy rain and snowmelt. The rising...

Flooding caused by heavy rain and snowmelt is blamed for two deaths in the Midwest, and two others are missing. Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes in Nebraska and Iowa as levees succumbed to the rush of water. Flooding has also been reported in Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Authorities were using boats and large vehicles on...

Ernest Quintana’s family knew he was dying of chronic lung disease when he was taken by ambulance to a hospital, unable to breathe. But they were devastated when a robot machine rolled into his room in the intensive care unit that night and a doctor told the 78-year-old patient by video call he would likely die within days. “If you’re...