Bay Area tech companies are building powerful artificial intelligence systems that experts say could pose “catastrophic risks ...

New funding powers an effort to plant trees in West Oakland. The program must overcome decades of disinvestment and city ...

Social Security — one of the most trusted institutions in American life — is facing an upheaval that’s alarming staff and beneficiaries.

California is developing new policies to promote electric vehicles after Congress and the White House cut EV subsidies and ...

A new data analysis of thousands of sites shows toxic waste cleanups take longer in socially vulnerable parts of the Bay Area.

In San Francisco, people in mental distress who are involuntarily detained on “5150 holds” can cycle repeatedly through the care system.

San Francisco, like all California counties, may have to re-imagine its behavioral health care system in response to state mandates.

The U.S. Navy subjected servicemen and others to ethically questionable radiation exposure in San Francisco during the Cold War.

After Atomic Test Blunder, Government Authorized Study of Radiation in Humans Part 2: THE DECISION-MAKERS | Exposed, an investigative series In the late 1940s, the Navy towed ships wrecked by Pacific ...

Harmful "forever chemicals" have been found in fish in the bay. They are a health risk and threaten what many consider a way of life.

How a San Francisco Navy Lab Became a Hub for Human Radiation Experiments Part 1: OVERVIEW | Exposed, an investigative series Rarely seen documents show a Cold War atomic research facility ...