Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration says it will spend more than $520 million to fix homes and the sewer infrastructure needed to help prevent future floods. Residents are growing impatient.
Race and Equity
Advocates are asking for the state to again cover a gap of $100 million caused by a drop in federal funding.
Massachusetts parents and advocates push for stronger anti-bullying enforcement after federal civil rights cuts left schools facing little accountability for reported bullying.
Pacoima is hemmed in by highways and heavy industry, and its residents are fighting pollution with hyperlocal air quality monitoring.
School bullying complaints are often ignored in Massachusetts despite 2010 law. A Peabody teen's suicide is fueling a new push to toughen enforcement and training.
The disparities become even more alarming when looking at transgender and nonbinary youth.
Arizona lacks workplace heat safety rules, leaving outdoor workers at risk of death as climate change worsens extreme weather events. A reporter combines data, public records and worker voices to highlight the danger.
A health reporter working on a story on Native American youth suicide learns that "just because you are ready to tell a story doesn’t mean the people most affected want you to."
For residents in heavily surveilled neighborhoods, the cameras come with a cost that goes beyond privacy.
More access to veterinarian care, which is scarce in rural communities, would boost both human health and safety as well as animal welfare, bill supporters say.