After testing nearly 70 homes, a Dispatch team exposed Ohio’s hidden radon threat, prompting state and local action.

This is a lot of people not just milking the system but making deliberate economic decisions to exploit a vulnerable ...

Advocates are particularly incensed that decision-makers have mostly shuttered schools in the poorest part of town — ...

In Bakersfield, where Black mothers face some of California's worst maternal health outcomes, doulas are stepping in to fill ...

Twenty-two states are moving to restrict what people can buy with their food benefits, targeting soda and candy in a huge, uncontrolled policy experiment backed by little evidence. In April 2025, ...

On a half-acre lot just feet from a walnut orchard, Emily Petersen lives with her husband, her three young children and her German shepherds. When she and her husband, Jose, bought the house seven ...

“This is a lot of people not just milking the system but making deliberate economic decisions to exploit a vulnerable population,” said Barak Richman, a professor at George Washington University Law ...

Eilís O'Neill has covered health for KUOW, an NPR station in Seattle, since 2020. Before that, she worked for almost a decade as a health and environment reporter in Seattle, New York City, and Buenos ...

Much has been written about the alarmingly high rate of maternal mortality in the United States, particularly among women of color. Yet surprisingly little of that coverage has focused on where the ...

I'm a longtime newspaper reporter, with stints at The Seattle Times, The Washington Post, and Willamette Week, an alternative newsweekly. Now I'm writing for a nonprofit, Marguerite Casey Foundation, ...