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.

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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, ...

Tommy Alba could be a pain in the ass. It’s how he ran two bustling cafes in coastal Virginia. His linebacker physique and booming baritone, with more than a hint of a childhood New Jersey accent, ...

Nats: refers to ambience sounds. Soundbite: a piece of an interview. Bridge: reporters will be on camera. Yes, well, we have to work for food for the house. If we don’t work, how? Because everything ...

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 ...

MOOREFIELD — On a rainy afternoon in 2020, Pilgrim’s Pride’s West Virginia chicken factory was dirty. The slaughterhouse has sharp metal hooks, deboning knives and conveyor belts. The machinery ...

Most parents raise their children in what they believe is the best possible way, hoping to provide them with a better upbringing than the one they had. Yet, oftentimes, parents’ earnest efforts to ...