After testing nearly 70 homes, a Dispatch team exposed Ohio’s hidden radon threat, prompting state and local action.

Advocates are particularly incensed that decision-makers have mostly shuttered schools in the poorest part of town — ...

This is a lot of people not just milking the system but making deliberate economic decisions to exploit a vulnerable ...

In Bakersfield, where Black mothers face some of California's worst maternal health outcomes, doulas are stepping in to fill ...

MOOREFIELD — On a rainy afternoon in 2020, Pilgrim’s Pride’s West Virginia chicken factory was dirty. The slaughterhouse has sharp metal hooks, deboning knives and conveyor belts. The machinery ...

Witnessing abuse carries the same risk of harm to children's mental health and learning as if the children had been abused directly, new research shows. SAVANNAH, Ga. – Latrelle Huff says her twins ...

When Mariana Pimentel thinks about her childhood in a small town in Mexico, she remembers being surrounded by anger and desperation. Her parents worked long hours to support Pimentel and her brothers ...

If you are Black or have Black children, it’s likely you or your child may have experienced adultification bias. Word In Black compiled this guide to help people understand what this bias is and how ...

Early in 2018, on assignment to write about education on the Navajo Nation, I wandered into a public school in Gallup, a tumbledown city on the border of the reservation. I’d been driving around ...

Bullying can cause a victim’s grades, emotional well-being and physical health to spiral, as in the 2017 case of a Danville girl filmed with her pants down in a bathroom, the video later posted to ...