An emergency room visit for an asthma crisis is always stressful. Advice from doctors and healthcare workers on managing the asthma may create more stress – simple and cheap measures such as careful housecleaning are often in place already, but additio …
On a sunny Sunday in late October, I took my e-bike on BART from El Cerrito to the Berryessa station to explore parts of San Jose’s 63-mile trail network. Sixty-three miles of trails? In sprawling, auto-centric San Jose? As a long-time resident of the …
Plans to create living roofs atop canopy structures protecting Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station entrances in San Francisco are underway as part of a pilot program. BART has partnered with the environmental nonprofit Nature in the City to create t …
Facing a challenge is often easier when you’re not doing it alone. Whether it’s dieting, dealing with substance abuse, or building homes for Habitat for Humanity, a group brings support — and maybe some friendly competition — to make the process more …
It’s late summer, and across the Bay Area, the heat has been building, prompting many residents to turn on their air conditioning – if they have it. A lot of housing built along the West Coast didn’t consider the possibility of American Southwest-level …
Several Bay Area transit agencies are improving bus reliability and cutting travel time with speedy bus routes in dedicated lanes — an offering that could expand as operators assess commute needs post-pandemic. Today, bus-speed improvements are on Van …
At the 50th anniversary celebration for the El Cerrito Recycling Center on Aug. 5, Anura Saliya Pieris of Sri Lanka made a hat for his daughter, Lakshmi, out of old atlases recovered from the center’s home-goods exchange zone. Pieris had toured the bel …
Journalist Felicity Barringer had covered government for decades — first at The Bergen Record in New Jersey, then at The Washington Post, and finally at The New York Times — so when she became the Times’ national environmental correspondent in 2003, it …
Let’s face it: While commercial strips may provide convenience, they are frequently unattractive. With changing retail patterns, they are also increasingly under-utilized. Urban planners see a new future for them as locations for a mixture of housing a …
Growing up as the child of Filipino and Toisan immigrants near Los Angeles, Bernadette Lim never saw a doctor. “We didn’t trust them, it was not a place we wanted to go,” recalls Lim, who is now a doctor herself. Instead, her family relied on Vicks Vap …