Training has been limited and work to reduce flammable vegetation postponed. Some firefighters are leaving the force.
From a small station in Los Angeles’ Boyle Heights, 18-year-old Kennia Camacho talks with teens about anxiety, stress and depression. We should listen.
Powerful senator threatens Environment Department with funding cuts, its secretary with investigation.
Amid health concerns, residents in a Virginia community push back on proposed gas plant.
As fear mounts, day laborers risk arrest to help the city rebuild and support their families.
Even those robbed by a cartel or gang can be denied asylum for providing support to a group the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.
Grants promised for renewable energy, clean air and municipal water systems frozen and under review.
From uprising to fires, Blacks in L.A. continue the fight against erasure.
Housing activists accuse rental giant of excessive payment hikes.
Abducted by soldiers as a student in Argentina, author and human rights activist Alicia Partnoy hopes young people stand up for migrant rights.
Russell Vought has long proposed deep cuts to social programs like Head Start and SNAP that benefit lower-income people, who were key to Trump’s election in both red and swing states.
The state’s challenge: How to police an industry that generates a third of the state budget and a third of its greenhouse emissions.
Emboldened residents organize to halt Big Oil’s march toward the Rocky Mountain suburbs.
A time of fear dawns as the administration calls in the military and promises immigration sweeps.
The U.S. has repeatedly tried to remove nonwhite people from society, often leading to generational trauma.
For those moved to detention facilities elsewhere in the country the odds of winning asylum decrease greatly.
After wildfires devastated the island, homelessness spiked. Advocates fear L.A. could face a similar fate without strong renter protections — and enforcement.
In areas like California’s rural Shasta County, school campuses may be the most effective places to care for children’s mental health needs, and such care will now be covered by insurance.
National Education Association leader Becky Pringle says her union is preparing to fight for “our students, our public schools and, honestly, our democracy.”
Head of the California Immigrant Policy Center said the state’s leaders and people are ready to stand against deportations and nativism.