A reporter grapples with the lack of progress in fixing the health and safety problems faced by rural students and staff in Alaska's public school system.
Race and Equity
Hepatitis B cases and deaths declined since 2021, but rates remain above national average. Advocates are urging routine screening, vaccination and annual reporting.
Cancer has touched Roy Johnson’s life deeply — losing family to it, fighting it himself, and now urging awareness while sharing his journey with prostate cancer.
People walking and biking on Watsonville streets die at a rate 70% higher than the county average, according to a Santa Cruz Local analysis.
The embrace of doula support even in Republican-led states is colliding with sweeping federal cuts to health care, public health and research on health disparities.
The Health Divide: Measles cases have hit a three-decade high, and not everyone is equally protected
Measles cases are at their highest numbers in decades amid declining vaccinations, persistent disparities and vaccine misinformation, leaving millions of children vulnerable.
Native youth in California face the state's highest suicide rates despite being its smallest ethnic group. Now Medicaid cuts threaten vital Indigenous clinics offering culturally rooted mental health care.
Areas such as as Southeast Los Angeles have been severely impacted by immigration sweeps.
“The cuts hit everywhere,” said Harvard researcher Scott Delaney. “It's not just in the Ivies. It's not just in the Northeast. There's a story everywhere across the entire country.”
A proposed federal gun laws risk empowering abusers and weakening protections.