When should San Francisco police officers bring in certified language interpreters in their dealings with people who don’t speak English well? A new city policy directs officers to look for signs when ...

Community groups converged Wednesday at City Hall to defend funding for the Environment Department. Antonio Diaz of the community organizing group PODER said the city’s building electrification ...

Moving her family of five out of a residential hotel in 2022 provided Lily Wu with long-sought housing stability. Now as a federal program expires, she fears having no place to go. Credit: Neal Wong / ...

The Single Room Occupancy Collaborative Program, a longstanding city-supported initiative, is empowering Latino residents of the Chase Hotel to speak out about unsafe living conditions. Credit: ...

The first teacher strike in nearly 50 years motivated pickets not just by teachers, but also the Service Employees International Union, which showed up in support at John O’Connell High School in the ...

San Francisco Unified School District’s handling of a proposed OpenAI agreement has prompted questions about transparency and governance in school technology decisions. Credit: Courtesy of Wikimedia ...

Correction, January 29, 2026 1:52 pm: An earlier version of this story misstated the share of respondents who said they had been affected by domestic violence and the change since 2021. The correct ...

Lacking easy access to a variety of fresh food, many island residents get their sustenance from a community food bank. Credit: Neal Wong / San Francisco Public Press In 2003, Abdo Nasser and his ...

Marie Harrison at a 2018 Greenaction rally over the Hunters Point Shipyard cleanup. Her activism grew out of health problems in her family and neighborhood. Credit: Tom Molanphy On May 16, 1998, the ...

This reporting was supported with a California Health Equity Fellowship from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and a grant from the Pulitzer Center. If it weren’t for his wife suggesting ...

Bay Area technology companies are racing to build powerful artificial intelligence systems they admit could pose “catastrophic risks” to society. But a new report by academic experts commissioned by ...

Some of the food Gabriel Biddler received on his visit to the River City Food Bank. Credit: Bryan Wen / UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism On a hot morning in late June, Gabriel Biddler came to ...