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Manuel Orbegozo/CalMattersSan Mateo, California adopted a new approach to mental health 911 calls by pairing police with mental health clinicians. Researchers found that it reduced the number of future mental health emergency calls and involuntary psychiatric holds by roughly 17%. -
Salvador Ochoa/CalMattersSenior 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.
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Southern Oregon University is building a retirement facility on campus. Students and professors are working to figure out how to create spaces to bring college students and older learners together. -
The Trump administration has sent five times more people at least 1,000 miles compared to the last year of former president Joe Biden’s term. -
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. -
The Roseburg Forest Products mill was one of the largest employers in Siskiyou County. In December, it laid off its entire workforce. Now, for the first time since its founding, the small community of Weed is a mill town without a mill. -
Division has pervaded the small district, with some accusing the superintendent of misconduct. -
The Bureau of Land Management on Monday announced its approval of a controversial lithium mining exploration project in Southeast Oregon’s Malheur County near the Nevada state line. -
President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have cut funding to Medicaid, which pays for many services for students with disabilities. Trump also gutted the Office of Civil Rights, which helps enforce disability law. -
After a sudden drop in returning salmon on the Coquille River, a new Oregon law allows old-fashioned hatchboxes to return. -
Tax receipts are down almost 30% in one California farm town, where immigrants are afraid to go out and some longtime workers are weighing self-deportation. -
Oregon promised better access to doulas, lactation care. Birth workers say they still can’t get paidA new law is aimed at supporting doula and lactation workers, but many say the success of those reforms depends on whether the state can fix persistent payment problems -
A missing helicopter and a possible immigrant detention center have roiled the coastal city. -
In an effort to cut federal spending and end programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion, the Trump Administration has cut funding for some programs that help students access college.
