Two older adults with similar health profiles can experience vastly different outcomes depending solely on whether they ...

Aging with dignity and independence is the ability to live life to its fullest in the place you call home regardless of age, illness or disability. While we all like to picture ourselves growing older ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Latinos, African Americans, Asians and low-income people in California are breathing in significantly more tailpipe pollution than other demographic groups in the state, putting them at increased risk ...

On a late spring afternoon last year, Andrea* drove herself and her three children directly from her ex-husband’s home to the local police station, seeking protection for herself. She was shocked by ...

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 ...

Sheri Louie fell in love with Kristina the moment she saw her at the group home for medically fragile children in Fresno. A licensed vocational nurse, Louie had spent years working with children like ...

I sat in a tiny, crowded cell at the San Francisco County Jail, contemplating how I had ended up there. This was not supposed to happen to someone like me — a successful businessman from a ...