Overall the state will add just over 140,000 jobs by 2034, according to the latest projections from the Oregon Employment Department.

Starting in 2025, California tortillas will contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects—a change aimed at closing a gap for Latina mothers.

Senior Californians in rural communities are dying by suicide at troubling rates—struggling with pain, cut off from doctors and mental health care, with guns at hand. Access to care and safety planning would help, experts say.

A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.

But a leader of the state’s top hospital industry group called the research “disconnected from reality and tone deaf.”

In the most-comprehensive look yet at whether people are using Gov. Gavin Newsom’s CARE Court, CalMatters found that far fewer Californians are enrolled in the mental health program than he projected.

Caitlin Moher is the Research Manager at Center for Environmental Health and author of the report. She offers insight into the investigation findings.

California spent hundreds of millions on prison and hospital healthcare staff, auditors found, but vacancy rates rose since 2019, exceeding 30% at three facilities despite bonuses and pay raises, with inadequate oversight and planning.

California’s attorney general is seeking an injunction against a Humboldt County hospital after staff refused to perform abortions. The state claims the Catholic-run facility is violating California law.

The state has seen 1,475 confirmed cases so far this year, according to state health officials.

Asante will be shuttering birthing services at its Ashland hospital this spring. Staff say the closure is a loss to the region.

In October, Shasta County officials came out against a state grant application to build a large behavioral health facility. Some have now changed their minds.