New York legislators proposed requiring AI companies to warn if their chatbots might cause harm, but facing heavy lobbying, they backtracked.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie’s recommended budget would significantly reduce city support for the city’s Environment ...

A federal housing assistance program affecting more than 900 San Francisco households will expire sooner than expected.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Half Dome was originally called “Tis-sa-ack,” meaning “Cleft Rock” in the language of the Ahwahnechee People, one of the seven tribes that lived in Yosemite. John Muir referred to the iconic monolith ...

San Francisco residents and staff from the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office gather on the steps of the Hall of Justice on July 28, to raise awareness for defendants awaiting trials in San ...

East Palo Alto and surrounding cities are saturated with polluted sites, and exposure to those chemicals can take a toll on locals’ health. Credit: Courtesy Arcadis For decades, East Palo Alto ...