A reporter discovers the power of hanging out and listening deeply in California's Imperial Valley, where a struggling rural ...

A reporter learned how to gather her own data as a building block for her narratives, which she brought to life through ...

I have reported on health for most of my career. My work as an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register exposed problems with the fertility industry, the trade in ...

This story was produced as part of a large project by Jessica Bedolla, a participant in the 2020 National Fellowship, who is exploring, researching and reporting the impact of this worldwide pandemic ...

<p>In the past, the study of addiction has often been focused on substances — like heroin, marijuana and alcohol. But experts in the field now believe that addiction begins with the “reward circuitry” ...

So much crucial brain development occurs in the first three years of life that one researcher jokes that to him and his colleagues, 3-year-olds are practically middle aged. And yet,the first three ...

Do undocumented residents have to pay the Obamacare penalty for not having health insurance? Despite advocates' efforts, you might be surprised at how much confusion there is — even from tax preparers ...

HARRISBURG — This was a crucial year for opioid settlement money in Pennsylvania. For the first time, counties across the state faced serious accountability from a powerful state oversight board. The ...

A reporter discovers troubling gaps in the data collected by LA's child welfare agency on child removals due to neglect.

On a May afternoon, customers fill empty five-gallon jugs at vending machines beside the front door of the Aqua Bar water store in Escondido. Inside, the store’s owner chats with regulars turning the ...

My editors at Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit newsroom in West Virginia, had me traveling across the state asking residents what they saw as the important issues in their lives. Before I left, ...