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

Since this announcement, Trump has threatened, imposed and rescinded some tariffs on imports from all countries and ...

Amid the federal debt ceiling talks, some lawmakers have their eyes set on cutting Medicaid funding. That would be an ill-advised and costly mistake for everyone, not just for the vulnerable ...

“It’s the biggest investment in alternative responses that the state has ever seen,” said Cat Brooks, executive director of Justice Teams Network, who advocated for the bill.. Applications from ...

A quarter of those surveyed said they were arrested or threatened with arrest when reporting partner abuse or sexual assault to police. About half of survivors never called the police at all, citing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yet access to mental health care has never been more important. According to The Household Pulse Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020 and 2021, about 30 to 40 percent of adults reported ...

One day this spring, after an intense day at work, Megan packed an overnight bag and got in the car with her boyfriend. She needed a medical procedure. But because the procedure was an abortion, she ...

Kenny Louie with adopted daughter, Kristina. Photo courtesy of the Louie family. But there’s more work to do to ensure the needs of foster children with disabilities don’t fall through the cracks, ...

The goal is to make it easy for violence survivors and their children to get all of their needs taken care of in one place, and to spare them from having to visit multiple locations and retell their ...

In the predawn hours of Oct. 3, 2012, two farm labor crews arrived at fields southeast of Salinas to harvest lettuce. A light breeze blew from the north across rows of head lettuce and romaine. As the ...