Emily Alpert Reyes covers public health for the Los Angeles Times. She previously reported on Los Angeles city government and politics, as well as on the census and demographics, tracking how our lives are changing in Los Angeles, California and the country. Before joining The Times, she worked for the pioneering nonprofit news website voiceofsandiego.org, winning national awards for her reporting on education. She has also traveled to Bolivia as a fellow with the International Reporting Project and survived the University of Chicago.
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In California, where the herbal substance kratom has become a common fixture in vape-and-smoke shops, lawmakers are now aiming to reel in an unregulated market.
April 29, 2024
A Los Angeles County initiative called Reaching the 95% aims to engage with more people than the fraction of Angelenos already getting addiction treatment.
April 23, 2024
Latinos have remained underrepresented in a California program that has been lauded for giving people with disabilities more freedom to decide what they need.
April 15, 2024
Months after Kaiser Permanente reached a sweeping agreement with state regulators to improve its mental health services, the healthcare giant is facing union allegations that patients could be improperly losing such care.
April 9, 2024
Environmental and community groups want the state to turn down Phibro-Tech for a renewed permit for its Santa Fe Springs facility.
April 9, 2024
Attorney Roland L. Coleman Jr., who became only the second Black person ever to lead the Los Angeles County Bar Association, has died. He was 74 years old.
April 6, 2024
In California, doctors trained as pediatricians, OB-GYNs and other specialties can take on lucrative — and potentially risky — cosmetic surgeries. Some have branched out with little or no surgical training.
April 5, 2024
A power outage that forced patients to be evacuated at a Boyle Heights hospital after the massive storm Hilary was the result of lapses in maintaining the facility, state investigators found.
March 21, 2024
Giving clean syringes to people who inject drugs has been found to curb the spread of disease. But syringe programs are being banned in many California communities. The state is fighting back.
March 19, 2024