Solar projects in the Navajo and Hopi nations to electrify homes win federal funding
Two projects in Arizona have been preliminarily selected as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s funding for…
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GOP-Led States Expand Crackdowns on Transgender Care
South Carolina’s legislature is poised to pass a bill prohibiting doctors from offering some health-care services to transgender minors — part of a…
AI disinformation, threats to poll workers top U.S. Senate panel list of election worries
WASHINGTON — Senators on the U.S. Senate Rules Committee expressed concerns Tuesday that poll workers may need…
Concerns Grow Over Quality of Care as Investor Groups Buy Not-for-Profit Nursing Homes
Harris Meyer
Shelly Olson’s mother, who has dementia, has lived at the Scandia Village nursing home in rural Sister Bay, Wisconsin, for almost five years.…
Tom Horne wants a crackdown on lenient discipline in schools
Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne knows that a crisis is coming if Arizona teachers keep leaving…
California Voters Are Skeptical That More Money Is the Answer to Homelessness
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s expensive ballot-box attempt to tackle the mental health and addiction crisis on the state’s…
How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Pits Parental Rights Against Public Health
Gayle Borne has fostered more than 300 children in Springfield, Tennessee. She’s cared for kids who have rarely seen a doctor — kids so neglected…
Republicans want to make it easier for lawsuits to block ballot initiatives
GOP legislation that passed through the Senate on Monday would ask voters to amend the Arizona Constitution to allow…
A New $16,000 Postpartum Depression Drug Is Here. How Will Insurers Handle It?
April Dembosky, KQED
A much-awaited treatment for postpartum depression, zuranolone, hit the market in December, promising an accessible and fast-acting…
Katie Hobbs vetoed a GOP immigration bill. She might get to veto it two more times.
Republican lawmakers, stung by Gov. Katie Hobbs’ veto of a bill that aimed to give the state the federal government’s…