California’s initiative to overhaul the Medi-Cal program is genuinely ambitious. Known as CalAIM, it is built around the idea ...

This is the reality of millions of non-, unreliable and minimal speakers living with autism. This is the reality of living ...

Lisbet wondered if the victim advocate had made a mistake. Lisbet was at the Family Justice Center in San Diego, a social services agency for domestic violence survivors, trying to get help with basic ...

Rosy Miranda recognized herself in the desperate woman on TikTok. With tears in her eyes, the woman showed the bruises on her face, a black eye and a cut lip. “No woman should have to go through this, ...

Students walking to class on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Berkeley offers support for students experiencing intimate-partner violence. Photo by Kirkikis/iStock. Relationship violence threatens not only ...

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 ...

Dawn Tyree says she was 13 years old when her father and stepmother pushed her to marry a 32-year-old child molester. The man, a family friend, was supposed to be babysitting Tyree at the family’s ...

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 ...

For the past five years — ever since her son, Marc, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 2 months old —Denise Williams of Adelanto has been trying to schedule doctor’s appointments. Week after week, ...

A monitoring program tracks toxic cyanobacteria and influences change. This piece is part of a collaboration that includes the Institute for Nonprofit News, California Health Report, Center for ...

In the middle of the room, a couple places objects that are sacred to them: a singing bowl, a trombone. Two shiny, beautiful instruments, full of potential for beautiful sound. The couple rejoins the ...

First, they stare. They are sitting, face-to-face, in a cinder block box of a room designed for attorney visits. It stinks of sweat and fear. The prisoner — a young man who as a teen took part in a ...