Sadly, whooping cough isn’t the only vaccine-preventable disease coming back. Measles is surging with a vengeance, having ...

As the opioid epidemic has spread over the past decade, fueled by the availability of synthetic opioids like fentanyl, no corner of California has escaped unscathed. Even in the rural Eastern Sierra, ...

Stockton’s historic city center. Photo by MattGush/iStock Housing affordability and homelessness are a top concern across California communities. Solutions so far have focused on closing the gap ...

On a recent evening in downtown Oakland, seven women sat on couches arranged in a circle around a table with flickering candles, passing around a small, pink ball. Each passing of the ball signified ...

When Cecilia Gonzalez told family members she had volunteered to share her life story with men in prison, they were shocked. Gonzalez, 56, had spent most of her adult life recovering from the pain and ...

Jacquie Marroquin spent much of her childhood living in fear of her father. A child of undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Marroquin – who grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s – worried that ...

Manuel and Lupe hold up the sacred objects that they brought to the healing circle, the culmination of their restorative justice journey with the CHAT Project. Photos by Lauren DeLaunay Miller.

This story is part of the Pulitzer Center’s nationwide Connected Coastlines reporting initiative. Jessica Calix has tried to make the 33-foot travel trailer she and her son Chago share at a north San ...

Pediatric specialists often earn less than general pediatricians, even though they have undergone three years of additional training, leading fewer future physicians to seek out this line of work.

Susan Skotzke had high hopes when she heard about a new benefit called Enhanced Care Management offered under her daughter’s Medi-Cal health insurance plan. Skotzke, who lives in Santa Cruz County, ...

Youth from Fresno’s Punjabi Sikh community perform a traditional dance at a May, 2023, event organized by the Jakara Movement at Jaswant Singh Khalra Park in Fresno. The park is named after a Sikh ...

Why is COVID-19 disproportionately taking the lives of African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Asian Americans and low-income workers? Community conditions too often undermine health and ...