Made quickly and with minimal fuss, a park for skateboarders revived a downtown site — and offered a few lessons for urban revitalization.

After years spent transforming a San Francisco hillside once littered with trash into a lush community garden, a group of Portola neighbors hired a contractor this spring to turn the drab concrete ...

Two bills endorsed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would be the most transformative changes to the California Environmental Quality Act ...

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Since 1970, the average temperature from June to August in downtown San Francisco has warmed 1.1 degrees. And at San ...

The city of San Francisco has outsourced much of its governance to an army of nongovernmental organizations. The structure of this arrangement has become so complex and convoluted that San Francisco ...

concerns are being raised about the impacts to the surrounding environment. The fire at the Moss Landing Vistra Power Plant, located about 90 miles south of San Francisco, broke out last Thursday ...

The next largest source of spending is the Department of Public Health: $3.2 billion, or about 18 percent of the total.

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental ...

California's CEQA environmental law has been used to block housing at the expense of the environment and climate it was designed to protect.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns that wildfire smoke contains dangerous pollutants in the form of fine ...

Multiple agencies in Nelson County are raising concerns about the DSS, accusing it of failing to communicate effectively in ...