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

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

When I started looking into Sacramento’s teen vaping crisis, I thought I had a decent understanding of the problem. Like many others, I knew that teens were vaping in school bathrooms, and despite the ...

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 ...

There’s a stream that cuts across the grounds of Central Louisiana State Hospital, traversing its rolling hills dotted with age-old oak trees. To the right of its entrance, bleachers and the fence of ...

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 ...

This story was produced as part of a larger project led by Suzanne Bohan and Sandy Kleffman, participants in the Other stories in this series include: Race and Equity, Poverty and Class, Environmental ...

This is the first part of Forgotten Children, a series on the tragic and underreported problem of childhood grief – and efforts to address it. Parental death has been rising in the U.S. due to ...

<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” ...