It’s a scenario that Bay Area mothers and mental health advocates Teresa Pasquini and Lauren Rettagliata have had a close ...

To those who knew him, Noah Silver was a bright, happy child identified as gifted with a penchant for playing instruments. He ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

This story was produced in collaboration with High Country News and Grist. When I visited Christina Gonzalez and her family in April, she sat slumped in her family’s worn black faux-leather couch, ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state legislature have committed to a series of rate increases for businesses and professionals who make community life possible for over 400,000 Californians with ...

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 ...