San Francisco health officials have reversed a controversial plan to uproot 82 long-term residents with severe mental illness ...

San Francisco officials waited nearly a month to alert Hunters Point Shipyard neighbors about radioactive reading while ...

An advisory panel vote to stop recommending routine vaccination of newborns could release a new wave of chronic infections, ...

Nonprofit service providers and San Francisco officials are seeking funding approaches to blunt federal shifts that they ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

Without AI-translation software, San Francisco provides human interpreters like this one, right, who helped a Cantonese speaker communicate with English-speaking city officials at a recent public ...

A private developer proposes that Plaza East Apartments in San Francisco, built less than 20 years ago, be demolished and rebuilt. Tenants want to see a plan for repairs to existing homes. Credit: ...

This special report appeared in the Spring 2012 print edition of the San Francisco Public Press. (Read in Spanish at La Opiñon/Impremedia. Leer en español en La Opiñon/Impremedia.) More than a decade ...