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

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through San Francisco Saturday from Dolores Park to Civic Center Plaza for a No ...

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Bay Area residents came together for a second day of protests against deportations, marching around San Francisco’s Mission ...

Mackentral “Mack” Williams crossed the dock at Mission Rock and tossed a handful of breadcrumbs into the water ahead of Natalie Wu’s next cast. Wu, wielding a circular net, hoped to trap bait fish in ...

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The success of the atomic bomb program deeply unnerved some of the scientists responsible. Manhattan Project leader J. Robert Oppenheimer’s later qualms are well known. But even before the first ...

On a windy day last fall, a slender man stood on a corner of the bustling intersection at Van Ness Avenue and Market Street, anxiously seeking help. He flagged us down, asking that we call an ...

This reporting was supported by a USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism data fellowship. On warm nights Arieann Harrison used to sit and chat with neighbors on the steps outside her apartment ...

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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 ...

Over the last 20 years, Amparo Vigil has felt the hot days get hotter in her Mission District home. “They used to be tolerable, but now it’s unbearable,” said Vigil, who lives in the four-unit ...