A note on source protection: In this story, we speak to four high school students. In order to protect the identities of the students who fear repercussions based on their immigration status, we have ...

Lauren DeLaunay Miller is a reporter with California Health Report as part of the California Local News Fellowship at UC ...

Shana Jimenez’s love of dance began in kindergarten. From the moment she stood confidently on a school theater stage in a small penguin costume in front of a crowd of parents, it was clear that ...

A Night to Remember is a prom sponsored by Mission Church in Ventura for students with intellectual disabilities ages 12 to 25. What A Night to Remember offers is an extravagant experience where ...

First, they stare. They are sitting, face-to-face, in a cinder block box of a room designed for attorney visits. It stinks of sweat and fear. The prisoner — a young man who as a teen took part in a ...

Dawn Tyree says she was 13 years old when her father and stepmother pushed her to marry a 32-year-old child molester. The man, a family friend, was supposed to be babysitting Tyree at the family’s ...

Latinos, African Americans, Asians and low-income people in California are breathing in significantly more tailpipe pollution than other demographic groups in the state, putting them at increased risk ...

It’s been more than three years since the Camp Fire leveled the California town of Paradise. But for domestic violence counselor Marlen Hernandez and the clients she serves, the traumatic effects ...

The last time Liz Zambrano’s ex-husband tried to hurt her, she knew she had to find a path to safety. As he threw household objects at her and her two sons — a computer, an iron — they fled to the ...

Lisbet wondered if the victim advocate had made a mistake. Lisbet was at the Family Justice Center in San Diego, a social services agency for domestic violence survivors, trying to get help with basic ...