Questions over DTSC competency complicate taxpayer-funded plans to rehabilitate polluted properties.
Is it too late for L.A. County to learn from its pandemic mistakes?
For millions in the Golden State, economic inequality brings a different kind of peril to daily life.
In the poorest state in the nation, a push to cancel federal support for those out of work.
Issues with death certification have led to unreliable mortality data, leaving families, vulnerable communities and epidemiologists in the dark.
A conversation with political scientist Karthick Ramakrishnan.
Lax enforcement and major permitting problems plague hazardous waste facilities in Los Angeles.
But teachers and their allies are fighting back in Arizona, Kentucky and elsewhere.
As American wealth gets concentrated among a smaller number of cities and corporations, many communities are fighting to hold on.
Despite record job losses during the pandemic, the 1% have left the state flush with cash.
The city of Clovis was found to be in violation of state housing laws.
Inside the movement to bring mental health care, not law enforcement, to people in psychiatric distress.
The political gridlock behind the transit gridlock.
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Biden talked the talk on border policy during the campaign, but has been a different guy since becoming president.
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