Harmful "forever chemicals" have been found in fish in the bay. They are a health risk and threaten and what many consider a ...

As Hepatitis B is widely misunderstood and insufficiently screened, Asian Americans are disproportionately affected.

Amid a recall attempt, some Asian American leaders feel they can no longer expect political or financial support from ...

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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 ...

Sea level rise is forcing cities around San Francisco Bay to weigh demand for new housing against the need to protect communities from flooding. Builders say they can solve this dilemma with ...

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 ...

In February 2021, a tenant in a Tenderloin subsidized housing complex for seniors and disabled people phoned the Department of Building Inspection with an urgent message: Her toilet had been leaking ...

After running the world’s first doctoral program in radiation biology, James Newell Stannard spent his retirement researching “Radioactivity and Health: A History.” The exhaustive record of the ...

For decades, East Palo Alto community organizers have had every reason to focus their activism on a contaminated site owned by Romic Environmental Technologies Corp., pushing the company to clean up ...

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 ...