New funding powers an effort to plant trees in West Oakland. The program must overcome decades of disinvestment and city ...

Food banks expect lines to grow longer after Congress approved a $186 billion cut to SNAP — the larges in the food stamp ...

California Weighs New EV Incentives Backed by Fee on Gas Cars and Trucks With federal credits ending, ‘feebates’ could shift drivers toward cleaner vehicles — with no additional state spending, ...

Cutting the positions raises concerns that the city is reducing police oversight while increasing the police department’s ...

Oakland Bioremediation Experiment Could Offer Cheaper, Safer Toxic Cleanup But the pilot faces hurdles endemic to California’s toxic sites cleanup system.

Taiwanese video artist Yuan Goang-Ming explores the unsettled nature of daily life In an exhibit at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum.

A new app aims to provide school communities in polluted areas with real-time data to help protect students from fine particulate matter.

San Francisco, like all California counties, may have to re-imagine its behavioral health care system in response to state mandates.

Poorly Tracked Virus Is a ‘Silent Killer’ Affecting Asian Americans Most Advocates say efforts to improve hepatitis B screening and data collection are chronically underfunded.

Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, the public editor at PBS, identifies threats to democracy, independent journalism and public media.

Eviction Rates in SF Soar as Legal Aid Faces Deep Funding Cuts Aid groups’ attorneys beg City Hall not to pull support for extremely low-income residents on the brink of homelessness.

Scientist Who Helped Prove Humans Changed the Climate Watches Evidence Being Erased Livermore Lab’s Ben Santer spent decades tracing humanity’s imprint on the atmosphere. Now, the data behind his work ...