Military scientists shredded millions of pages, impeding acknowledgement of the history of human radiation experiments.

Scores of LGBTQ refugees come to San Francisco to escape threats in Latin American countries that have weak protections for ...

The California Coastal Commission approved the closure of San Francisco’s Upper Great Highway to cars so that it can become a ...

California courts are being sued over failure to address a court reporter shortage that has persisted a decade.

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 ...

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 ...

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The city can’t prove it’s following a policy requiring staff to advise homeless people to separate essential items during encampment sweeps.

An escalation in encampment clearings could be leaving unhoused San Franciscans with fewer of their vital documents, making them less able to access services and, this month, vote, service providers ...

🎧 Podcast Episode 1: A Community of Color Contends With the Navy’s Toxic Legacy 🎧 Podcast Episode 2: Why the Navy Conducted Radiation Experiments on Humans About the series: The San Francisco Public ...

In early 1955, San Francisco 49ers management agreed to make its players guinea pigs in a radiation experiment, according to a series of letters hashing out the “completed arrangements” between the ...

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 ...