Rebecca Plevin|Xavier Becerra joined a legal effort to intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend the subsidies that reduce out-of-pocket health costs for lower-income people.
Air district staff detected total chromium near metal processing facilities in Compton, but say this doesn't indicate whether the cancer-causing compound is present.
State senators and doctors had called on Gov. Brown to restore $33 million dollars in funding for medical residencies in areas with significant physician shortages.
A new state law says women can get a year's supply of birth control pills at the pharmacy and insurance must cover it. But that hasn't been the case for everyone.
Every Southern California county saw a year-over-year increase in the percentage of fully immunized kindergartners. L.A. jumped from 90 percent to 95 percent.
Infection rates remain stubbornly high among African-Americans and American Indians. The Board of Supervisors wants to get smarter about how to narrow those gaps.
The investigation is centered on three metal processors. A nearby air monitor shows chromium 6 levels have spiked up to 10 times above background levels.
