Sriharsha Devulapalli

This interactive map shows what California coastal areas you should evacuate under a tsunami warning.

These maps show where Hindi, Punjabi, Telugu and other South Asian languages are spoken in California

The Clean Air Act of 1970 has helped Americans breathe easier, driving measurable improvements in air quality over the past two decades. But human-caused climate change is turning back those gains across the United States, with wildfires in California and the West driving the reversal. Even worse, future models show it could get worse in the next 30 years. “We’re essentially wiping out that 20 years of progress,” said Jeremy Porter, head of climate implications research at the First Street Found…

San Francisco’s population declined dramatically during the first part of the pandemic, spurring worries that the city is headed for a “doom loop” scenario, in which the negative impacts of a decreasing population cascade. But since then, the city’s population has been rising slowly, and according to new research, San Francisco is among the large U.S. cities poised to see population growth by the year 2100, even as other cities lose population. That positive projection is in part a result of the…

Before Tesla’s recall of more than 2 million vehicles for a software update related to their autopilot systems, more than 100 Tesla accidents in the Bay Area had drawn attention from federal investigators looking into whether autopilot played a role. A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration database identifies 113 Tesla accidents in the nine-county Bay Area since July 2021 in which autopilot had been switched on before the incident. There were 970 such accidents involving Teslas nationwi…

On Tuesday, San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston introduced a resolution calling on the city’s transit agency to ban drivers from turning on a red light at all intersections across the city. Many intersections in the city already prohibit turning on red, whether it’s a left or right turn. But as it stands, most of them are concentrated in the downtown areas of San Francisco. The map below shows where these restrictions apply currently, according to data from the San Francisco Municipal Transpo…

Recently released data by the California Civil Rights Department reaffirms the well-known pay gap that exists between people of different races and genders in the state: White male workers are dominantly represented in white-collar, high-paying jobs, while women and people of color are overrepresented in lower-paying, blue-collar jobs. California-based private companies employing more than 100 workers are mandated by state law to disclose pay data that includes demographic profiles. The latest…

Before the pandemic in 2019, the worst highway bottleneck in the Bay Area used to be in Santa Clara on southbound US-101. That is no longer the case, as remote work and other factors have changed commute and congestion patterns in the region. Highway traffic is rising back to near pre-pandemic levels, said Janis Mara, a Caltrans spokesperson. But where and how bad these bottlenecks are have changed, according to an analysis of Caltrans congestion data. Using automated vehicle detector sensors, C…

The pandemic left deep wounds in San Francisco’s economy. In March 2020, the Bay Area was the first U.S. region to order residents to shelter at home, and even before then, several tech companies had ordered employees to stay away from the office. Many never came back. Related: These S.F. small businesses are betting on downtown by moving into vacant storefronts The explosion of remote work turned the city upside down. Its surging office market was setting pricing records and had almost no vacan…

Last week, Farmers Insurance, California’s second-largest homeowner insurance carrier, announced that it will limit the number of new policies it issues in the state. This announcement comes on the heels of market leaders State Farm and Allstate declaring they would not issue new policies in the state, citing severe weather events, rising construction costs and challenges with reinsurance. Related: It’s a make-or-break moment for California’s insurance commissioner California’s homeowners now ha…