Federal funding cuts to medical research and new rules for grants are dismantling projects at the University of California, ...

Homelessness among older adults is rising. On Sept. 30, the Public Press hosted a discussion on the crisis' causes and possible solutions.

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

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

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 ...

This $400 million bond measure would finance the repair, improvement and construction of various street safety, transportation and transit related infrastructure projects. To pass, this measure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many unhoused people receive mental health care through the city’s Street Crisis Response Team, in their signature red van — or through forced psychiatric detention. Credit: Illustration by Madison ...

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 ...