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 ...

There are hundreds of families on the city’s family shelter waitlist, and nearly 500 people on the adult shelter waitlist. On ...

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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 ...

For decades, East Palo Alto community organizers have had every reason to focus their activism on a contaminated site owned by Romic Environmental Technologies Corp., pushing the company to clean up ...

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 ...

Last Thursday San Francisco’s chief medical examiner released the city’s updated overdose death count — 752 so far — making 2023 the worst year on record for drug-related fatalities. As fatal ...

After running the world’s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell Stannard spent his retirement researching “Radioactivity and Health: A History.” The exhaustive record of the ...

Tenants living a mere 15-minute walk from the political heart of one of the richest cities in the world have been trying to raise attention about the dilapidated conditions they have experienced at ...