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

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

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

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

California Weighs New EV Incentives Backed by Fee on Gas Cars and Trucks With federal credits ending, ‘feebates’ could shift drivers toward cleaner vehicles — with no additional state spending, ...

Oakland Bioremediation Experiment Could Offer Cheaper, Safer Toxic Cleanup But the pilot faces hurdles endemic to California’s toxic sites cleanup system.

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

A potential cure for hepatitis B is in clinical trials, but cuts to critical agencies and research funding could slow approval.

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

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