According to national statistics, homelessness among veterans has declined by more than 55 percent since 2010, but even with ...

When parents are pulled in many directions, they often can freeze. They don’t know what to believe or whom to trust. At the ...

The president of the advocacy group Children Now is paying particular attention to potential cuts to Medicaid, or Medi-Cal in ...

Hundreds of young people across California are sparking conversations in their schools and communities about what healthy relationships should look like and how to recognize abusive behaviors. The ...

Students walking to class on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Berkeley offers support for students experiencing intimate-partner violence. Photo by Kirkikis/iStock. Relationship violence threatens not only ...

It’s been more than three years since the Camp Fire leveled the California town of Paradise. But for domestic violence counselor Marlen Hernandez and the clients she serves, the traumatic effects ...

Some rural California communities have waited nearly a decade for state regulators to repair their tainted drinking-water systems. This article, produced jointly by the California Health Report and ...

First, they stare. They are sitting, face-to-face, in a cinder block box of a room designed for attorney visits. It stinks of sweat and fear. The prisoner — a young man who as a teen took part in a ...

A monitoring program tracks toxic cyanobacteria and influences change. This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for ...

Latinos, African Americans, Asians and low-income people in California are breathing in significantly more tailpipe pollution than other demographic groups in the state, putting them at increased risk ...

In the predawn hours of Oct. 3, 2012, two farm labor crews arrived at fields southeast of Salinas to harvest lettuce. A light breeze blew from the north across rows of head lettuce and romaine. As the ...