Community & Public Health

The new site opened amid mounting pressure on city leaders to reduce open-air drug use and skyrocketing overdose deaths in the neighborhood.

The White House, National Academies and now some members of Congress have called for nursing home reforms. Rep. Bobby Rush says corporations must be held accountable for pandemic deaths.

Lacking resources, she thought her mentally ill son would be safer in jail. Then he was beaten to death.

Nowhere was the massive COVID wave of winter 2021 more devastating than in America’s nursing homes, where 71,000 residents died in the surge. In this webinar, we’ll hear from the lead reporter in the USA Today series, who will show how an original data analysis and an exhaustive reporting effort revealed a pattern of unnecessary deaths that compounded the pandemic’s brutal toll. Reporters will leave with fresh ideas and strategies for covering nursing homes in their communities, as new variants loom and policymakers roll out new regulations.

Hundreds of people have been shot and killed in the industrial corridors of Wilmington, California.

With the passage of the Mental Health Parity Act, insurers are required to provide equal coverage for behavioral health care.

Many vulnerable Minnesotans have no idea that their county can place a hefty lien on their home to recover expenses for long-term care.

Rochester Mayor Malik Evans campaigned last year on a promise to "promote environmental justice in every neighborhood ... (while) making Rochester an environmentally friendly city of the future."

The current inequality in tree cover in the city of Rochester is easy to observe, but how did it come to be that way?

The future of transportation in Fresno County rests largely with Measure C, a local sales tax that is expected to raise more than $6.8 billion for roads, highways, and public transit over the next 30 years.