Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Julie Cunningham, a public safety dispatcher, listens intently to a call while working at the CHP 911 dispatch center in Rancho ...

California might have to call 911 to save its emergency communications system upgrade project. Whether the call would actually get through is another matter. While the Golden State prides itself on ...

California's ambitious effort to modernize its 911 system has collapsed after more than $450 million in spending, leaving residents with aging infrastructure and state leaders facing sharp questions ...

A California lawmaker wants more oversight over the delayed effort to create a modernized 911 system after an agency spent over $450 million on the project only to later scrap the design. On Thursday, ...

Julie Cunningham, a public safety dispatcher, listens intently to a call while working at the CHP 911 dispatch center in Rancho Cordova in 2009. Renée C. Byer Sacramento Bee file California lawmakers ...