Bay Area tech companies are building powerful artificial intelligence systems that experts say could pose “catastrophic risks ...

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

California is developing new policies to promote electric vehicles after Congress and the White House cut EV subsidies and ...

Social Security — one of the most trusted institutions in American life — is facing an upheaval that’s alarming staff and beneficiaries.

Cold War Scientists Pushed Ethical Boundaries With Radiation Experiments Part 4: ETHICS | Exposed, an investigative series Memos reveal that a San Francisco Navy lab risked running afoul of human ...

A new data analysis of thousands of sites shows toxic waste cleanups take longer in socially vulnerable parts of the Bay Area.

Federal officials are considering a proposal to allow a developer to tear down and rebuild a 20-year-old public housing complex in the Western Addition — a plan that does not address residents’ ...

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

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