This story is part of a larger project series, "Voices from the Vineyard," led by Sarah Klearman, a 2020 Impact Fellow. She is reporting on how the twin crises of the pandemic and the wildfires have impacted the health of the valley’s farmworkers and their families....
The Office of Licensing is crafting new rules after legislators passed a bill that brings more state oversight for the first time in 15 years.
The novel coronavirus has infiltrated two more nursing homes in Tulare County, propelling the county's largest single-day increase in COVID-19 cases to date.
As harvest season approached, growers begged county officials to vaccinate their workers. But the state and counties didn’t prioritize vaccine doses for farmworkers in February. So the growers and doctors stepped in and set up their own clinics.
This story is part of a larger project, Troubled Water: The Salton Sea Project, led by Angela Chen in where she examines the health and environmental risks linked to the decline of the Salton Sea.
State legislators in a dozen states continue to oppose expansion, with their talking points echoing across state lines.
The Mendocino Voice has been awarded a grant as part of the USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism 2021 California Fellowship, which will allow us to expand our coverage of health issues here in Mendocino County over the next several months, focused on feedback from our community.
Forty people have died as a result of COVID-19 in Tulare County, health officials confirmed Thursday.
The Mendocino County Public Health Department held its first COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Round Valley High School in Covelo last week with more planned throughout the spring.
A lawsuit filed in federal court accuses Shasta County Jail deputies of repeatedly beating a man in custody, causing his death, and then covering it up.
