It’s a scenario that Bay Area mothers and mental health advocates Teresa Pasquini and Lauren Rettagliata have had a close ...

To those who knew him, Noah Silver was a bright, happy child identified as gifted with a penchant for playing instruments. He ...

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 ...

For the past five years — ever since her son, Marc, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy at 2 months old —Denise Williams of Adelanto has been trying to schedule doctor’s appointments. Week after week, ...

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 ...

Rosy Miranda recognized herself in the desperate woman on TikTok. With tears in her eyes, the woman showed the bruises on her face, a black eye and a cut lip. “No woman should have to go through this, ...

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 ...

This story was produced in collaboration with High Country News and Grist. When I visited Christina Gonzalez and her family in April, she sat slumped in her family’s worn black faux-leather couch, ...

I sat in a tiny, crowded cell at the San Francisco County Jail, contemplating how I had ended up there. This was not supposed to happen to someone like me — a successful businessman from a ...

In the middle of the room, a couple places objects that are sacred to them: a singing bowl, a trombone. Two shiny, beautiful instruments, full of potential for beautiful sound. The couple rejoins the ...

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 ...