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Health officials in Florida’s sugar belt failed to act on recommendations to study the health impact of cane burning, despite decades of internal research and complaints from residents.

A series with Nashville Public Radio was nominated in the feature writing category; our work with The Palm Beach Post was nominated for local reporting.

State legislators passed landmark legislation to help buoy a long-troubled program for making reparations to Native Hawaiians. The move follows a ProPublica and Star-Advertiser investigation.

The measure limits homeowners associations’ ability to foreclose on residents who accumulate fines for violating community rules known as covenants.

Growing up in Southern Illinois, I knew many children whose basic needs went unmet. Reporting here decades later, I began to wonder why the system wasn’t doing more to help their families.

Illinois families often cycle through the states child welfare system. But often they don’t get the help they need.

The News Leaders Association announced this week that Local Reporting Network partner Meribah Knight of Nashville Public Radio’s WPLN News and ProPublica reporter Ken Armstrong won the Dori J. Maynard Justice Award for their detailed account of the juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee .

A process called coordinated entry, used by cities across the country, is meant to match homeless people with housing. In San Francisco’s version, the system could be making it harder for some populations to get indoors.

The council resolution follows revelations by Outlier Media and ProPublica on the high number of DTE customers whose accounts were disconnected during the pandemic.

The bipartisan measure would limit homeowners associations’ powers to file foreclosure cases based on fines for community-rule violations, capping such penalties and increasing due process for homeowners.