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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...