Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders and immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa are significantly overrepresented among chronic ...

California’s “first-in-the-nation” law to prevent accidents, cybercrimes and other catastrophic outcomes of AI was weakened ...

Ben Santer never imagined that 12 words could change the trajectory of his life and humanity’s understanding of what it was doing to the planet: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human ...

Environmental health advocate Raymond Tompkins served on a community panel tasked with reviewing cleanup of toxic and radioactive pollution in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood before the Navy ...

Supporters of a measure to close a stretch of San Francisco's Great Highway to cars permanently gather on the roadway in November 2024 to celebrate its passage, while detractors protest in the ...

A person’s journey through San Francisco’s behavioral health system can start at many points, including after their deteriorating condition lands them on the streets. Credit: Illustration by Noah ...

In September 1956, Cpl. Eldridge Jones found himself atop a sunbaked roof at an old Army camp about an hour outside San Francisco, shoveling radioactive dirt. Too young for Korea and too old for ...

Longtime Mission District resident and landlord Amparo Vigil is upgrading her property to help the household cope with heat waves. Credit: Lucas Solórzano / Courtesy PODER Over the last 20 years, ...

In the 1950s, the army ordered Eldridge Jones to clean up radioactive materials scientists had spread outdoors to study possible decontamination methods in the aftermath of a nuclear war. Credit: ...

Book chapter excerpted and lightly adapted, with permission of Chris Carlsson and Lisa Ruth Elliott, editors, from “Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco ...

Proposed changes to the tax system could give the city more tax revenue and unburden small businesses. Credit: Jason Winshell / San Francisco Public Press See our November 2024 SF Voter Guide for a ...

Arieann Harrison talks with longtime Hunters Point resident Antoine Mahan about his concern that truck traffic to and from the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard may be worsening air quality along Innes ...