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Most Oregon hospitals have been bleeding cash for years, and at least two are already set to close their obstetrics units.

California Democrats’ redistricting plan would split the state’s traditional Republican stronghold into a sprawling coastal district with Bay Area liberals. North State conservatives say it would silence rural voices.

Whether federal cuts are legal is still undecided. But local health departments have closed clinics, stopped programs, cut immunization appointments, and laid off workers anyway.

JPR’s Vanessa Finney recently spoke with three artists creating a song cycle about survivors of the 2020 Almeda Fire. Composer Jesse Sanchez, director Dalia Ashurina and lyricist Sami Horneff describe their collaboration on “Letters from Almeda."

Families were flung across the Rogue Valley, and the country, after the 2020 Almeda Fire. That continues to have a huge impact on school enrollment.

After the Almeda Fire displaced hundreds of families, Talent’s Gateway Project created a temporary RV village that helped Phoenix-Talent students return to school and community life.

The Almeda Fire was a wake-up call for many in the Rogue Valley, where evacuations and coordination between emergency departments were somewhat chaotic. Since then, first responders and residents have worked to apply what they learned.

The mobile home park burned down in 2020, but it took years to be rebuilt, leaving many residents stuck in limbo.

The Almeda Fire turned the Bear Creek Greenway between Ashland and Phoenix into a barren, ashy landscape. Recovery has involved many partners and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Nearly a decade after California revamped its K-12 science curriculum, two-thirds of students failed to meet the statewide standard.

One Oregon woman's journey from the loss of the Labor Day fires, through five years of dislocation, to a new beginning for her and her family.

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