Open-government experts question why Mayor Lurie is withholding records of a call with Trump that reportedly averted a surge ...

Pushing back against attacks on science, supporters Monday announced plans for a 2026 ballot initiative to spur medicine and public health investments.

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: ...

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 ...

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: ...

Veritas accused of trying to force out rent-controlled residents. Big landlord says charges are false. When the Great Recession destroyed San Francisco’s 20th-century kings of rent-controlled ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A person’s journey through San Francisco’s behavioral health system can start at many points, including after their deteriorating condition lands them on the streets. Credit: Illustration by Noah ...

A toxic site in the Mission District, polluted with gasoline that leaked from storage tanks, is undergoing cleanup. Such remediations take longer in communities of color than majority-white ...