After records requests were denied, a reporter used lawsuits and monitor reports to expose severe understaffing and failures in Illinois' prison health care — despite a court-ordered consent decree.

“Let’s imagine that we are all here together in a circle. We are all inside it, no one is left out, and we want unity — this is your group.” With those calming words, Maricela Acevedo starts a regular ...

In Chicago, the L train is the zigzag of public rail that connects the city. So for a recent reporting project on life expectancy, I decided to use this familiar feature to help explain a vast ...

As Sacramento grows, the city struggles to house all its people. Rising average monthly rent often exceeds what residents can pay. Black people are often more susceptible to housing instability.

Cada una vive una realidad distinta. Hay quienes se sientan en el sofá y se conectan después de una larga jornada de trabajo… Otras atienden la llamada desde el celular mientras resuelven asuntos de l ...

The rapid expansion of supersize data centers to power AI may not seem like a big story for health journalists. The growing public backlash has focused on the environmental impact: the massive use of ...

CROW RESERVATION — When doctors in Billings told Ursula Rides Horse-Russell she had Stage 2 breast cancer, her mind went blank. She had buried her 34-year-old son two days earlier. She couldn’t ...

Witnessing abuse carries the same risk of harm to children's mental health and learning as if the children had been abused directly, new research shows. SAVANNAH, Ga. – Latrelle Huff says her twins ...

South Dakota is one of the most sparsely populated states in the nation, which puts many remote residents at the mercy of the open road and a strained rural health care system in order to maintain ...

Sharitta Berry was at Oakland’s Highland Hospital when she got the bad news in early 2018. For several months, Berry was coughing heavily and struggling to breathe. Her doctors told her she has COPD, ...

For more than 20 years, Adela León, originally from Putla in Oaxaca, Mexico, has worked in agricultural fields across Washington State and California’s Central Valley. “In grapes, peaches, apricots, ...

"Why do people put their parents in nursing homes when there are so many problems in them?" It was not the first time my mom had asked this question. This time, it came after yet another report of an ...