Shantal Riley is an award-winning freelance health and environmental reporter. Before graduating from the health and science program at Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, she worked as a print ...

Rashel Cedeño de Abreu has worked at the Univision affiliate in Sacramento since November 2021, holding roles as a TV news reporter, anchor, producer and digital content editor. She has a bachelor’s ...

Sarah Conway is an award-winning investigative reporter who won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Local Reporting for “Missing in Chicago,” a two-year investigation into how Chicago police handle missing ...

As COVID-19 spread through Santa Maria in early 2020, basic information about preventive measures failed to reach much of the population. More women have been opting for home birth as hospitals ...

When Dr. Josh Bamberger was starting his medical career in the Tenderloin, he wished he could offer something more to his sickest homeless patients. Now he can.

A city program that brought hundreds of hand-washing stations and portable toilets to the doorstep of dozens of encampments during the height of the pandemic comes to an abrupt end. This story is part ...

A former drug dealer now offers harm reduction services and a pathway to recovery, if his clients choose. The last year and a half took a toll on educators who had to pivot to teaching via video, ...

The city extended the program two months after a L.A. TACO investigation found that vendors failed to service units consistently, despite collecting millions of dollars in payments. Early in the ...

Marjorie Lauderdale, an 80-year-old caregiver in Palm Springs, faces a daunting task caring for her 77-year-old wife, Deidre, ...

With a campaign that’s less than two months old, the Harris-Walz health platform is being constructed in real time. Would a Harris presidency extend President Joe Biden’s health care policies or usher ...