The country’s Medicaid system is about to face sweeping cuts due to the passage of H.R. 1. The federal bill enacts nearly ...

Cal MediConnect was intended to help seniors who qualify for MediCal and Medicare. The California Department of Health Care Services expected the program to be a hit. It wasn’t. As of last July, only ...

At the front lines of California’s rapidly aging demographic, California mayors and local leaders are taking a fresh course of action to make their communities age-friendly, and more livable for ...

To help grow the number of Native American cultural spaces in the Bay Area, a community center will also be built at Flicker ...

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 ...

It’s been more than three years since the Camp Fire leveled the California town of Paradise. But for domestic violence counselor Marlen Hernandez and the clients she serves, the traumatic effects ...

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 ...

The first time Cat Brooks sought help from the police to deal with her violent husband was also the last. She was a 19-year-old college student, married to a man 10 years her senior. One night, after ...

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, ...

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 ...

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, ...