Death Valley Came Close To Hottest Temp On Earth: An unfathomable heat descended here on Monday, the hottest place in a rapidly warming world. At the Furnace Creek Visitor Center, a digital ...

California Democrats Reject Newsom's Deep Budget Cuts: California legislative leaders announced Monday that they reached a budget proposal to address the state’s $12 billion expected deficit, leaning ...

5-Day Strike Will Shutter Most Of Children’s Hospital Oakland: Health care workers at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland plan to begin a five-day strike Wednesday over what they say are cuts in ...

Nurse Laura Johnson administers a dose of the HPV vaccine to Abby Major, 13, at an Illinois health clinic. A California lawmaker wants all incoming college students to get an HPV vaccine, as part of a ...

Would you rather be buried or cremated when you die? If you feel the way I do, the answer is neither. I cringe at the thought of my body burning up at well over 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit or being ...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has made battling health care consolidation a signature issue since he took office in 2017. With the additional pressure that COVID-19 is putting on ...

Bobby Moske of San Rafael, California, had to get his tooth pulled after waiting months for authorization for a root canal under Medi-Cal. Now he wants implants, but Medi-Cal won’t cover it. (Loren ...

Theresa Grant, a resident of Culver City, California, has endured debilitating pain for the past year from a mysterious bulge protruding from her lower rib cage. This story also ran on Los Angeles ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration has negotiated a secret deal to give Kaiser Permanente a special Medicaid contract that would allow the health care behemoth to expand its reach in ...

Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is the state’s health insurance program for Californians with low incomes, including children, people with disabilities, and seniors. Get the latest data on ...

SACRAMENTO — Gov. Gavin Newsom, whose administration is struggling to contain a worsening homelessness crisis despite record spending, is trying something bold: tapping federal health care funding to ...