The San Francisco Unified School District signed a contract with OpenAI three weeks before seeking approval from its school ...

Gov. Newsom insisted that obstacles to addressing the housing and homelessness crises remain at the local level during a May 14 press conference discussing his revised version of the next fiscal ...

Correction, January 23, 2026 12:09 pm: Due to an editing error, a previous version of this story said the closure of the Great Highway interrupted traffic across Golden Gate Park, when it should have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers wrote that testing on animals first would have produced unreliable results, so they proceeded to apply radioactive substances to human skin to see how well it could be cleaned off. Source: ...

Claire Protti, Maya and Sebastian Laing, and Sarah Stockmanns (left to right) at a Sept. 18 news conference on the steps of Pasadena City Hall urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign SB 331, aka Piqui's Law, ...

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 ...

A private developer proposes that Plaza East Apartments in San Francisco, built less than 20 years ago, be demolished and rebuilt. Tenants want to see a plan for repairs to existing homes. Credit: ...