Twenty-one children are in the custody of a California child-welfare agency while authorities investigate a Los Angeles-area couple and whether they misled surrogate mothers around the country.

Children and young adults in the U.S. foster care system suffer from mental health disorders and die by suicide at far higher rates than the general population, yet the system doesn’t uniformly screen ...

"We are experiencing a crisis in child health —this is clear and really not debatable," pediatrician and paper author Dr. Christopher B. Forrest told Newsweek.

Few understand the crisis better than Dave Jones, the former California insurance commissioner who oversaw the industry’s regulation from 2011 to 2018.

With cuts to some child welfare programs, California's new budget provided an emergency bailout to private foster family agencies.

California’s former insurance commissioner wants oil and gas companies to pay for the home insurance crisis Over the past decade, insurers have dropped hundreds of thousands of homeowners statewide ...

Cuyahoga County and child welfare advocates praised Gov. Mike DeWine this week for restoring funding for housing solutions for youth in the child protection system, but other language lurking in ...

DHS launches child welfare initiative to locate at-risk migrant children placed with unvetted sponsors, uncovering cases of abuse, exploitation, and labor trafficking.

California has made significant changes to a law from the 1970s that was considered landmark legislation in protecting the environment.

California is finally tackling one of the biggest roadblocks to solving its housing crisis by reforming the state’s half-century-old landmark environmental law — and green groups aren’t happy.

California Dismantles Landmark Environmental Law to Tackle Housing Crisis Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom pushed to roll back a 50-year-old law blamed for blocking development and reducing ...