A major earthquake in California, dubbed the “Big One,” has been foretold for decades. Reporting for AfroLA and with support from the Fund, investigative journalist Katie Licari found that the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is not prepared for a major earthquake. If the “Big One” hit, L.A. will be cut off from 88% of its water ...
For a series of in-depth reports in National Catholic Reporter, and with support from the Fund, investigative journalist Jason Berry is examining the continued toll of reported sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Louisiana. His ongoing series looks at the legal and emotional impact of the New Orleans Archdiocese’s bankruptcy filing on hundreds of people who say they were ...
When the deadly Eaton Fire approached an elder care facility in Altadena, Calif., staff weren’t properly trained on evacuation and safety practices, and two people were left behind on the property. State licensing authorities later cited the facility for failing to follow procedures. With support from the Fund, Aaron Schrank at LAist investigated what went wrong at that facility, as ...
Guards in a Mississippi jail terrorized people in their care for years, according to a new investigation published by The New York Times, Mississippi Today and Reveal. With support from the Fund, Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield spent nearly a year reviewing 69 alleged incidents of violence against inmates at the jail that occurred from 2012 to 2024. They interviewed ...
For five years, toxic oilfield wastewater has been pouring out of the ground across Oklahoma. It has blasted out of old orphan wells, poured out of the ground, and spread widely below the surface – polluting water supplies used by farmers, tribal nations, towns and citizens. State regulators have long known about the scale and causes of these events, known ...
In a deeply sourced year-long investigation supported by the Fund, InvestigateWest uncovered pervasive staff sexual abuse in Idaho’s women’s prisons, documenting at least 59 formal allegations since 2020 and interviewing 25 survivors whose stories expose routine retaliation and institutional coverups. The reporting shows that over the past decade, 37 prison workers have been accused of misconduct, yet only a few ...
Children who work on California farms are particularly susceptible to harm from toxic pesticides, which they’re exposed to because of poor oversight from regulators, reporter Robert Lopez found. For an investigation published in the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main, and with support from the Fund, Lopez reviewed more than 40,000 records of pesticide enforcement actions and interviewed more ...
Across northern and central California, customers experience thousands of power outages a year due to new power line settings designed to prevent wildfires. With support from the Fund, Emma Foehringer Merchant and Maria Parazo Rose conducted a first-of-its-kind analysis of data on so-called “fast-trip” outages and found that they’ve increased over time and are often triggered by technical glitches. In ...
Offshore betting websites are offering risky, prop bets on amateur college soccer despite the NCAA trying to prevent this, a team of reporters found in a story for Soccer America. Unlike regulated operators, offshore operators do not report suspicious betting movements that can indicate manipulation, so these bets are the perfect place for potential match-fixers to place bets on games ...
At one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has yet to publish a plan that is required to clean areas where rain and other water is collected. A five-month investigation by the nonprofit outlet Streetlight, supported by the Fund, found that engineers who have devoted their careers to remediation of Tar Creek in ...