You can’t cheat time,” said Phil Wesseler, a paramedic in Mono County who has witnessed the devastating impact of opioid use ...

Tony Tricarico a landlord in Southcrest, speaks with Clariza Marin of the Harvey Family Foundation outside one of his rental units destroyed by the Jan. 22 floods. He’s agreed to keep his rents low ...

A year earlier a dog had died after drinking lake water. Fishing tournaments were cancelled due to the noxious scum, and the lake was starting to smell rotten in the warm months. It was time to act, ...

But screening for adverse childhood experiences has been met with growing concern among health researchers and child welfare experts in the U.S. and abroad. While few doubt that severe stress in ...

The Senate just gave final sign-off to our legislation to significantly expand access to mental health & addiction care — requiring insurance companies to cover far more. #SB855 will make CA law the ...

She had been three months away from graduating from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. Nearly half of college women in intimate relationships report experiencing violent and abusive ...

Yet domestic violence shelters and services often struggle to help minors who are married, particularly if they have children, Acheson said. Shelters typically accept adults with children, but not ...

Still other critics say its reach is simply too limited. Aside from low-level misdemeanor cases, restorative justice doesn’t reduce or replace a significant number of prison and jail sentences, and it ...

This story was produced as part of a collaboration with the Center for Public Integrity, Columbia Journalism Investigations and Type Investigations. At an assistance center for wildfire survivors in ...

Over the past five years, with California’s mental health system stretched thin and demand for mental health care growing, more and more domestic violence agencies have set up their own mental health ...

Poor health, she says, is a painful but routine fact of life in her South Los Angeles community, an 8.5-square-mile tract surrounded by the largest concentration of oil refineries in California, as ...

All Nirmal Singh and his wife, Daljit Kaur, wanted were a few groceries from Walmart. But as the older couple drove in circles around the suddenly unfamiliar streets of Fresno, Singh feared they’d be ...