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A report from the front lines of California’s Black mental health crisis.
With heat waves now coinciding with California’s peak wildfire season, the workers who pick the nation’s produce face increasingly dangerous working conditions.
Disasters in the form of wildfires, heatwaves and smoke days have exacerbated Sonoma's disparities of wealth, health and education.
A new reporting project will look at how injuries and killings at the hands of L.A. County Sheriff Deputies impact the health of survivors, families and their communities.
Five journalists will undertake ambitious explanatory and investigative reporting projects about California’s health challenges.
Not only is the air quality decreasing, but the number of extreme heat events is on the rise. What will this mean for the health of nearby communities?
"The question kept lingering in the back of my mind: What’s new about this story?"
I’m writing this after six months of research, drafts and rewrites for my fellowship series about a new California health program called CalAIM, or California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal....
The state will need to make major investments and policy shifts to meet the challenge.
A reporter reflects on her journey through South Asian grocery stores in the Bay Area, where getting people to talk proved tricky.