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The data sources that trace humanity’s effect on the climate are under threat. Under the Trump administration, publication of scientific reports is being frozen and some records risk being removed ...
A new app aims to provide school administrators and teachers in these communities with real-time data that can help them protect students from harmful air pollution. When air quality is especially ...
When Chuan Teng looks at San Francisco’s approach to behavioral health care, she sees a fundamental flaw. “Jail, the streets, psychiatric emergency services — these end up being the points of entry ...
Hepatitis B is widely misunderstood, a problem worsened by insufficient screening and detection. Chronic hepatitis B isn’t as consistently detected as are acute cases, allowing the disease to ...
Some local groups broke with Supervisor Joel Engardio after he supported Proposition K, which set in motion the closure of a portion of the Great Highway to cars. Other Asian American leaders who ...
In February, the San Francisco Police Department converted a Sixth Street parking lot in South of Market to what it called a triage center — a fenced-off area where police could connect people to ...
After nearly a decade of changing proposals, dozens of below-market-rate units for families are close to becoming a reality in San Francisco’s Mission District. City officials, developers and ...
Toxic site cleanups take longer in marginalized communities, according to a new Public Press analysis of more than 20,000 sites of varying size across the nine-county Bay Area. In areas that scored ...
Hundreds of people descended on San Francisco’s Tesla dealership Monday to peacefully protest recent actions by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk to downsize the federal workforce under ...
On a sunny Saturday afternoon in November, a vibrant crowd gathered on the sand-covered median of the Great Highway. Young families, cyclists and seniors formed a sprawling half-circle along the ...
Rumors of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention operation alarmed residents of San Francisco’s Mission District earlier this month following a threat by Donald Trump before his ...
Our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point," details how the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, based at a shipyard in San Francisco, exposed at ...