Arsenic in water can lead to heart disease in young Native Americans, new study shows

A new study demonstrates that drinking arsenic contaminated water can lead to future heart problems in young Native Americans. Arsenic, a toxic metal, can be found in contaminated groundwater.

Affordable housing in northern California after wildfire last year still elusive for many families

By some estimates, more than 1,000 families are still homeless around Paradise in rural Butte County after losing their homes in the Camp Fire wildfires, contributing to a growing homelessness crisis.

California’s dearth of affordable housing is very acute in the Central Valley

California’s housing shortage is, by some estimates, the worst it’s ever been. But according to an editorial in the Fresno Bee, the crisis is most acute in the state’s Central Valley …

Rural America faces severe affordable housing shortage

About a quarter of the nation’s most rural counties have an increasing number of “severely cost-burdened” residents, in contrast to urban areas, where residents have seen their incomes rise since the end of the Great Recession.

After California wildfire last year, water supply still contaminated

Paradise, California residents, who fled last November’s Camp Fire have slowly been returning to the area, but officials are warning of a still contaminated water supply.