Harmful "forever chemicals" have been found in fish in the bay. They are a health risk and threaten and what many consider a ...

As Hepatitis B is widely misunderstood and insufficiently screened, Asian Americans are disproportionately affected.

Amid a recall attempt, some Asian American leaders feel they can no longer expect political or financial support from ...

This reporting was supported by a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism data fellowship. On warm nights Arieann Harrison used to sit and chat with neighbors on the steps outside her apartment ...

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The success of the atomic bomb program deeply unnerved some of the scientists responsible. Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer’s later qualms are well known. But even before the first ...

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 ...

Sea level rise is forcing cities around San Francisco Bay to weigh demand for new housing against the need to protect communities from flooding. Builders say they can solve this dilemma with ...

The first people known to have been exposed to radiation by the U.S. Navy in San Francisco were part of an atomic cleanup crew. Wrapped in cotton overalls and clunky gas masks, with pockets sewn shut ...

Despite vows to become more transparent, the California Public Utilities Commission has systematically violated the public’s right to know about its handling of deadly disasters and corporate scandals ...

In February 2021, a tenant in a Tenderloin subsidized housing complex for seniors and disabled people phoned the Department of Building Inspection with an urgent message: Her toilet had been leaking ...