Bay Area tech companies are building powerful artificial intelligence systems that experts say could pose “catastrophic risks ...

Social Security — one of the most trusted institutions in American life — is facing an upheaval that’s alarming staff and beneficiaries.

California is developing new policies to promote electric vehicles after Congress and the White House cut EV subsidies and ...

New funding powers an effort to plant trees in West Oakland. The program must overcome decades of disinvestment and city ...

This episode of our “Civic” podcast explores the history of health professionals, city leaders and community advocates in San Francisco working together to improve education and outreach around ...

Oakland Bioremediation Experiment Could Offer Cheaper, Safer Toxic Cleanup But the pilot faces hurdles endemic to California’s toxic sites cleanup system.

Taiwanese video artist Yuan Goang-Ming explores the unsettled nature of daily life In an exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum.

San Francisco, like all California counties, may have to re-imagine its behavioral health care system in response to state mandates.

Poorly Tracked Virus Is a ‘Silent Killer’ Affecting Asian Americans Most Advocates say efforts to improve hepatitis B screening and data collection are chronically underfunded.

Scientist Who Helped Prove Humans Changed the Climate Watches Evidence Being Erased Livermore Lab’s Ben Santer spent decades tracing humanity’s imprint on the atmosphere. Now, the data behind his work ...

Activists and officials celebrate the groundbreaking of a project set to bring 168 below-market-rate homes for families to the Mission.