Street medicine providers and homeless outreach workers who travel into Las Vegas’ drainage tunnels have noticed an uptick in ...

Homelessness experts and community leaders say vulnerability questionnaires have worsened racial disparities among the ...

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California’s controversial experiment to order mental illness and drug treatment for some of its sickest residents is rolling ...

A new tax on guns and ammunition in Colorado is set to take effect in the spring. Voters approved the tax, with most of the ...

Community health worker Yanet Martinez on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. Since Election Day, Martinez says, people are more ...

Federal law says Native Americans aren’t liable for medical bills the Indian Health Service promises to pay. Some are billed ...

SACRAMENTO — A growing number of people — many of them older and homeless — are freezing to death during winter. Hypothermia ...

LA County Launches Medical Debt Relief Program: Millions of dollars of medical debt could be erased within the next several months for some residents in LA County, thanks to a new program. Unlike ...

KFF Health News’ “Navigating Aging” columnist, Judith Graham, spent six months this year talking to older adults who live alone by choice or by circumstance — most commonly, a spouse’s death. They ...

State Of Emergency Issued Over Bird Flu: Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency Wednesday as the H5N1 bird flu virus moved from the Central Valley to Southern California dairy herds. The ...