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What You Need To Know About This Year's Flu Season

8:44pm January 09, 2018

by Barbara Feder Ostrov

In California, the flu has struck early and hard this season. Health experts aren't sure why. The state's higher temperatures typically result in a later flu peak there than in other parts of the U.S.

Inside the Haight Ashbury Free Medical Clinic in its earliest days. The clinic opened on June 7, 1967, and treated 250 patients that day. It's motto, then and now: "Health care is a right, not a privilege."

A 1960s 'Hippie Clinic' In San Francisco Inspired A Medical Philosophy

6:00am December 30, 2017

by Carrie Feibel

Fifty years ago a community health clinic first opened its doors as a safe, sympathetic space for countercultural youth. Today its motto is the same: "Health care is a right, not a privilege."

An image from a report by the State Water Board shows the area of the headwaters of Strawberry Creek in the San Bernardino National Forest. The board says Nestle lacks the permits it needs to extract all of the water it's been taking from the area.

California Says Nestle Lacks Permits To Extract Millions Of Gallons Of Water

12:14pm December 27, 2017

by Bill Chappell

California regulators say Nestle lacks the legal permits for millions of gallons of water it extracts from the San Bernardino National Forest and sells under the Arrowhead brand.

Seeking to cut greenhouse gas emissions in California by 40 percent by 2030, state regulators have approved a plan that offers incentives for truck and bus fleets to go green.

California's New Climate Plan Uses Incentives To Cut Vehicle Emissions

4:58pm December 19, 2017

by Sonari Glinton

Seeking to cut greenhouse gas emissions dramatically by 2030, regulators approved a plan that offers incentives for truck and bus fleets to go green and for utilities to use more renewable energy.

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People are seen walking past the "You Are Beautiful" sign, an art installation by Matthew Hoffman, in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago's South Side. Nearly half of the people in this African-American neighborhood live below the poverty line, and many

Sometimes It Takes A 'Village' To Help Seniors Stay In Their Homes

3:22pm December 15, 2017

by Ina Jaffe

Hundreds of "villages" have been created across the country as a "grass-roots movement on the part of older people who did not want to be patronized, isolated, [or] infantilized."

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Smoke from wildfires, like this lingering cloud in Sonoma County, Calif., in October, may be responsible for creating an off taste in wine.

Winemakers Worry Wildfires Will Leave Whiff Of Ashtray In Their Wine

2:57pm December 13, 2017

by Danielle Beurteaux

Grapes exposed to smoke from wildfires can absorb compounds that carry over into wine and ruin the flavor. The problem is only expected to grow as extreme weather events become more frequent.

Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, is leading a mission to investigate poverty in the U.S.

The U.N. Looks At Extreme Poverty In The U.S., From Alabama To California

3:59pm December 12, 2017

One sign of the poverty they're investigating — the recent (and surprising) reemergence of hookworm in Lowndes County, Ala.

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California Shootings Sprung From Domestic Violence, Restraining Order

10:13pm November 14, 2017

by Richard Gonzales

Tehama County authorities say one of the first victims killed Tuesday was a woman who had sought protection from the shooter earlier this year. Other victims may have been chosen randomly.

After California passed the Reproductive FACT Act in 2015, a number of anti-abortion pregnancy clinics filed lawsuits. The Supreme Court says it will consider the law in its upcoming session. One of the clinics was the East County Pregnancy Care Clinic in

Supreme Court Takes On Case About Free Speech And Abortion

11:27am November 13, 2017

by Bill Chappell

Does a California law violate the Constitution by requiring anti-abortion pregnancy centers to inform clients about free or low-cost abortion and contraception services?

Kids who saw an ad for legal marijuana were more likely to report smoking it one year later, according to a Rand Corp. report.

In The Age Of Legalization, Talking To Kids About Marijuana Gets Tougher

11:32am November 10, 2017

by Anna Gorman

Now that recreational marijuana use in California and other states is legal for adults and marketers are ramping up ads, youth drug educators fear that kids may think it's safe for them to light up.