Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. California has spent more than half a billion dollars since 2019 to modernize the state’s 911 system, according to a new report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2018, as California was laying the groundwork to build a new 911 system for the state, a massive fire ripped through Butte ...

California’s move to abandon a plan revamping the state’s antiquated 911 system, after spending hundreds of millions on the project, has critics fuming. In 2019, California began working toward ...

More than a year after NBC Bay Area filed a public records request seeking the emails of the former leader behind California’s long delayed, half-billion-dollar “Next Generation 911” system, the ...

California, a state that prides itself on being the epicenter of technology, has taught an absolute masterclass in bureaucratic incompetence — scrapping a new 911 system that cost more than $450 ...

California lawmakers want more oversight over a delayed effort to modernize the state’s 911 system, which has already cost taxpayers $450 million and is not expected to be complete until 2030. During ...

Steven Yarbrough, chair of the State 911 Advisory Board, at a Cal OES board meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025 in Sacramento. HECTOR AMEZCUA [email protected] California leaders are hoping to roll ...