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.

Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments Part 4: ETHICS | Exposed, an investigative series Memos reveal that a San Francisco Navy lab risked running afoul of human ...

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.

Destroyed Records, Dying Witnesses Consign San Francisco Radiation Lab to Obscurity Part 5: FADING HISTORIES | Exposed, an investigative series How did a celebrated Navy atomic research center nearly ...

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.