Facing mounting criticism early this year over the chaotic covid-19 vaccination rollout and a growing recall effort to remove him from office, Newsom gave the insurer a $15 million, no-bid contract to take over California's life-or-death effort to quickly vaccinate its...

Montana is one of six states without a mini-COBRA program, despite the estimate that around 100,000 Montanans work at businesses with 19 or fewer employees.

The financial fallout of covid-19 has pushed child hunger to record levels.

At a time when millions of Californians were trolling websites for hours to find vaccination slots, Long Beach, which has its own health department separate from the rest of Los Angeles County, aimed to simplify the process.