Community & Public Health

A homeless vigil mourned more than 420 unhoused people who died this year.

Volunteers conducted a 2024 homeless count in San Luis Obispo County, aiming to improve services and secure federal funding.

Vaping and other smokeless alternative forms of nicotine have proliferated as cigarette substitutes, creating in turn new types of addiction in adolescent users.

Study links medical debt with poor health outcomes, urging attention to financial hardships in healthcare.

Too often, journalists take public tap water for granted — until it fails. A new reporting project for the Center for Public Integrity will investigate the kiosk water industry and its relationship to tap water quality.

Some urban cities across America are experimenting with guaranteed income programs to boost people out of poverty and help them afford housing and food. Results from a pilot in Austin, Texas show real promise.

While Sacramento Sheriff Jim Cooper called the 2023 shooting death of a 10-year-old Black child an anomaly, the incident highlights the serious issue of people having guns who shouldn’t, and worse yet, children or teenagers having access to guns.

If the plan is approved, Madera Community Hospital could reopen as early as July.

Bill allowing low-income domestic violence survivors to record court hearings defeated due to opposition from court reporters' unions.

President Biden decided to put off a plan to ban menthol cigarettes until March after several civil rights groups argued that the ban would unfairly target African Americans.