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 ...

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

Alameda County's Santa Rita Jail is set to undergo a nearly $270 million maintenance and repair transformation thanks to a decision by the county Board of Supervisors at its Tuesday meeting.

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

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

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

Joel Engardio, an elected city supervisor, angered thousands of voters by helping to convert a major thoroughfare into a ...

Stacey Geis, former deputy assistant administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has joined Crowell & Moring's Environment, Energy and Natural Resources and White Collar and Regulatory ...

To settle a lawsuit over the Dana Reserve project, developers agreed to scale back the number of affordable units.

A civil war has broken out among the Democratic wonks. The casus belli is a new set of ideas known as the abundance agenda.

The "Make America Healthy Again" report, commissioned by President Trump, highlights ultraprocessed foods and environmental ...

There are hundreds of families on the city’s family shelter waitlist, and nearly 500 people on the adult shelter waitlist. On ...