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

During a fraught election cycle with fear of immigration raids, preliminary results show how San Francisco’s Latino-heavy neighborhoods voted.

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: ...

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: ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Claire Protti, Maya and Sebastian Laing, and Sarah Stockmanns (left to right) at a Sept. 18 news conference on the steps of Pasadena City Hall urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign SB 331, aka Piqui's Law, ...

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 ...

At a meeting of the Board of Supervisors’ Rules Committee, dozens filled the chambers to urge officials to house recently arrived immigrants. Other mothers experiencing homelessness voiced support ...

Supporters of a measure to close a stretch of San Francisco's Great Highway to cars permanently gather on the roadway in November 2024 to celebrate its passage, while detractors protest in the ...