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A federal judge said this week that she will begin fining California potentially tens of thousands of dollars daily after more than 200 prison inmates killed themselves during eight years in which state corrections officials failed to complete court-ordered suicide prevention measures. Addressing a chronic tragedy that has plagued the state for decades, Chief U.S.

Lilia Becerril was told she has cysts in her right breast five years ago, but without insurance, she can’t afford follow-up imaging to find out if they are cancerous. A bill would allow residents without legal status, like Becerril, to purchase coverage through Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange. (Heidi de Marco / KHN)

All day and sometimes into the night, buses and vans pull up to three state-funded medical screening centers near California’s southern border with Mexico. Federal immigration officers unload migrants predominantly from Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, and Peru, most of whom await asylum hearings in the United States. Once inside, coordinators say, migrants are given face masks

Tesla Inc. is doubling down on its presence in California by establishing its global engineering headquarters in Palo Alto. The move comes after CEO Elon Musk moved the company's headquarters from Silicon Valley to Texas in 2021, citing limited scalability in the Bay Area.Despite the move, over a third of Tesla's global workforce is in

About four years ago, Dr. Gene Dorio sat on the ethics committee of a Southern California hospital whose administrators insisted they could decide whether to disconnect a ventilator from an unconscious patient — even though the man’s wife and adult children wanted to continue life support. The problem, Dorio told California lawmakers last year, was

Stan Lyles, vice president of the SEIU-UHW union representing health care workers, speaks outside the offices of the Hospital Association of Southern California at a protest in favor of raising the minimum wage to $25 an hour for California health care workers. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) SACRAMENTO, Calif. —

Johnny Thai, 11, receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a pediatric vaccine clinic for children ages 5 to 11 set up at Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, Calif., Nov. 9, 2021. On Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, the California Department of Public Health said it was no longer exploring emergency rules to add the COVID-19