The Pleasant Hill BART station will have some unusual four-legged visitors Monday night: search and rescue dogs practicing their skills in a drill. Read the rest of this entry »

BART Director Bob Franklin announced he’s running for Oakland City Council in November - a decision forcing him not to defend his BART seat in the same fall election.

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BART Director John McPartland of Castro Valley was elected the BART Board president Thursday. He will hold the rotating position for a year. Read the rest of this entry »

Johannes Mehserle, the former BART police officer convicted of involuntary manslaughter for killing Oscar Grant in 2009, is back in the news as a federal civil trial begins Monday in San Francisco into allegations that he and four other BART police officers used excessive force in roughing up a train rider. The confrontation occurred at the BART Coliseum station in November 2008, seven weeks before Mehserle’s shooting of an unarmed Grant was caught on video and sent around the world via the Internet. Read the rest of this entry »

All BART trains will stop for one minute at 10:21 a.m. Thursday as part of the Great California ShakeOut, a statewide earthquake preparedness event. Read the rest of this entry »

California bike safety advocates and critics of cameras that catch red-light runners were disappointed by the governor’s vetoes, but BART officials are pleased he signed a transit safety bill. Read the rest of this entry »

Linton Johnson, the all-purpose public voice of BART,  remains on leave more than a month since his public relations war with protesters put him even more under the spotlight.  Read the rest of this entry »

The BART and AC Transit board are ramping up efforts to redraw  boundaries of political districts from which the directors are elected. An AC Transit board committee meets a 4 p.m Tuesday in Oakland discuss the options. Read the rest of this entry »

In another protest against BART police Monday,  a small group of demonstrators marched in downtown San Francisco, but there were no arrests and station closures, unlike a week ago. About 25 protesters attended this rally, which was the seventh since a BART police officer shot to death a knife-wielding homeless man on July 3. Read the rest of this entry »

BART riders are likely to see more police officers on trains and in stations this weekend as transit agencies across the naton step up vigilance on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Read the rest of this entry »