The state’s Medical Board has issued clear, evidence-based guidelines that recommend starting with non-opioid medications for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Janna Rivas smiled at the three men on the computer screen in front of her. “So who wants to start us off with their check in today?” she asked cheerfully. For a few moments, no one spoke. Then a man ...

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 ...

Some rural California communities have waited nearly a decade for state regulators to repair their tainted drinking-water systems. This article, produced jointly by the California Health Report and ...

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 ...

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 ...

California launches widespread screening for adverse childhood experiences. Critics question the science, and the consequences. Has your child ever lived with a parent or caregiver who went to jail or ...

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 ...

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 ...