A program offering more services and staffing in subsidized housing for veterans has promising results, but future funding remains uncertain.

A new state law touts whistleblower protections, but late amendments narrow eligibility and weaken safeguards critics sought.

The former headquarters of the Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, where in the years following World War II scientists oversaw exposures of hundreds of workers to radioactivity, sits just yards ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

Streaming 24 hours a day: KSFP is a low-power community radio station, launched in August 2019, offering a mix of original local and national talk radio including news, public affairs and storytelling ...

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 ...

Developers have redesigned Treasure Island to withstand a rising San Francisco Bay, elevating land and setting aside space for ever-higher sea walls. Engineers say planned fortifications will hold — ...

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 ...

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 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: ...