The data sources that trace humanity’s effect on the climate are under threat. Under the Trump administration, publication of scientific reports is being frozen and some records risk being removed ...

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

Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through San Francisco Saturday from Dolores Park to Civic Center Plaza for a No Kings protest organized to oppose the Trump administration’s increasingly ...

When Chuan Teng looks at San Francisco’s approach to behavioral health care, she sees a fundamental flaw. “Jail, the streets, psychiatric emergency services — these end up being the points of entry ...

Hepatitis B is widely misunderstood, a problem worsened by insufficient screening and detection. Chronic hepatitis B isn’t as consistently detected as are acute cases, allowing the disease to ...

Some local groups broke with Supervisor Joel Engardio after he supported Proposition K, which set in motion the closure of a portion of the Great Highway to cars. Other Asian American leaders who ...

As the Trump administration cuts tens of thousands of federal jobs under the guise of “efficiency,” veterans say the sweeping layoffs and surreptitious push toward privatization are worsening their ...

The San Francisco Public Press on April 30, 2025, hosted a fireside chat with Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, the public editor at PBS, and Lila LaHood, executive director of the Public Press, about recent ...

In February, the San Francisco Police Department converted a Sixth Street parking lot in South of Market to what it called a triage center — a fenced-off area where police could connect people to ...

After nearly a decade of changing proposals, dozens of below-market-rate units for families are close to becoming a reality in San Francisco’s Mission District. City officials, developers and ...

San Francisco should brace for a surge in homelessness. That was the assessment of local housing advocates following a Department of Housing and Urban Development announcement that it would “take ...

The San Francisco Public Press is proud to announce that our investigative series, “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” has been honored with a 2025 Izzy Award for outstanding ...