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Panels meant to judge the merit of a medical malpractice complaint often end up delaying victims’ access to justice in the courts.

Utah's prelitigation panels are meant to judge the merit of a complaint against a health care worker ahead of a lawsuit. No one has been able to show whether this mandatory step have had a meaningful impact on weeding out frivolous cases or reducing the number of medical malpractice cases filed.

The state places foster teens with serious mental health conditions in shelters that don’t offer psychiatric services. When a crisis erupts, shelters call 911.

The companies behind two major title lending brands have been cozying up to Georgia lawmakers in a position to bottleneck industry reform.

The former AG resigned in January 2021 as the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica prepared to publish an article about the allegations.

Columbia River salmon hatcheries need billions of dollars’ worth of upgrades to withstand climate change. They’re getting $50 million.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Co-published with ProPublica. Tabitha Davis had just lost twins in childbirth and was facing homelessness. The 23-year-old had slept on friends’ floors for the first seven months of her pregnancy, before being accepted to a temporary housing program for pregnant women. But with the loss of the twins, the housing program she’d applied to live in after giving birth — intended for families — was no longer an option. A few weeks later, Davis was informed that the score she’d been given bas...

As of early February, the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing reported 1,633 homeless people approved for housing and awaiting their turn to move in. Yet records provided by the department show 888 vacancies in its permanent supportive housing stock as of Feb. 22. Filling those empty rooms would not just cut the waiting list by more than half. It would be enough to house roughly one in every eight homeless people in the city. The homelessness department said it cannot talk...

Impact in accountability journalism is unpredictable. Here’s how ProPublica’s recent articles have prompted change in the world.