Community & Public Health

This lack of access to menstrual products, hygiene facilities, education or waste management is referred to as period poverty, or menstrual poverty.

The change follows a Sun-Times/Better Government Association investigation last year that documented the impact of “dead end” drug arrests in which people are briefly locked up, only to see the charges soon dismissed.

Michigan educators have secluded and restrained students nearly 94,000 times over the past five school years, a Free Press investigation found.

A childhood in Soviet Ukraine, a toxic military site, the former Mount Avisadero— multitude of histories in work of 300 artists

Residents living near the former battery recycling plant in have long complained about issues with the cleanup, and now employees of the contractors responsible for the cleanup are speaking out too.

If Adan Castaneda were charged with a crime and found mentally incompetent to stand trial in October 2022, he would be court ordered to a state mental hospital and stuck in jail for about two years before a hospital bed would become available.

According to a number of local experts and law enforcement officials, there are two key components to the domestic violence system that require additional support: funding and a lack of education.

Zach Chafos languished for a total of 76 days in a Maryland ER waiting for a psychiatric bed — part of a growing mental health treatment crisis for teens across the country

This story was produced with support from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s California Impact Fund.

Across the Inland Empire, many are feeling the pinch of inflation and can’t keep up with the rising costs of food.