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In honor of World Cancer Day, The Examiner is spotlighting local efforts to push care and treatment forward

These stories are dedicated to dreaming up a better San Francisco, and maybe reading it will inspire our policymakers to dream big. We believe the San Francisco Bay Area has a long future, and the current crises might just be the perfect opportunity to make some major changes and improve our region for future generations.

During one of The City's most consequential year in recent memory, perhaps no area faces as many challenges as downtown San Francisco.

Data Visualizations

Winter storms delivered much-needed snow to California’s mountains in the past week, with about a foot of fresh snow accumulated across much of the Sierras. There’s more on the way, but the snowpack still sits at only about 35% of normal for this time in the year. The latest figure is up f…

Reported violent-crime rates rose in San Francisco at a higher rate than the rest of the country through the first nine months of the year, while property crimes fell at a slower pace than the U.S. as a whole, according to federal data published this month.