Thirty years ago, Florida enacted a law that gives prosecutors unfettered powers to try children as adults. A yearlong Miami Herald investigation reveals the impact and systemic disparities of the statute’s enforcement.

In the span of just over a decade, Key Biscayne police received a series of complaints about a gymnastic coach’s allegedly abusive behavior with young girls, police reports and interviews with the Herald reveal.

A nonprofit is in charge of distributing the rapidly growing state funds. But financial troubles at one pregnancy center highlight gaps in its review of organizations that receive money.

A superheated real estate market has put unrelenting pressure on trailer parks, which are vanishing faster than ever, with a huge toll on residents.

Florida’s new immigration law, set to take effect on July 1, has undocumented workers worried — and afraid. They fear losing their jobs. They fear being forced to leave the state. And they fear having no choice but to return to their home countries, leaving their lives in South Dade, where some have been for decades, behind.

As Florida lawmakers have ratcheted the ever tighter restrictions on abortion, including a just-passed six-week abortion ban aimed at emptying clinics, a Miami Herald investigation found clinic waiting rooms as crowded as ever and maybe more so.

Republican lawmakers in Florida are proposing a more than fivefold increase in taxpayer funding for anti-abortion centers like the Pregnancy Help Medical Clinics, to $25 million from $4.45 million in 2022.

Just like adults, Florida juvenile offenders can be slapped with fees for the cost of prosecution and supervision, as well as the cost of a public defender — and, at the discretion of the judge, restitution. Records show that in the vast majority of those cases — roughly 90% in 2019, according to a University of Miami study — those assessments go unpaid.

In Miami, Turkish immigrants worry, rally support for homeland

Florida residents without insurance were left to clean up after Hurricane Ian on their own. Photo by Clara-Sophia Daly.

The University of Miami and Miami Dade College expand medical school program for Blacks, Hispanics

Suicides and suicide attempts soar among Florida adolescents.

A city-funded subsidized housing voucher known as CityFHEPS is many homeless families ticket out of homeless. But finding a landlord to accept the voucher proves difficult.

An investigative story examining the root of San Francisco’s trash problem.

I broke the news of the death of Yolanda López, a pioneering Chicana artist, and activist.

During the pandemic, (between March 2020 until June 2021), 561 people have died from Covid in San Francisco. By contrast, in the same time frame, 973 people have died from an overdose. Of those deaths, 762 were from fentanyl.

In the past year, 9 out of 138 members of the San Francisco Day Labor program died.

Read the story in Spanish here.

For 15 years, the small and slightly worn-down Revolution Cafe known affectionately as “The Rev” or “Revolution” was a place where maestros — from the homeless to the well-to-do — went to find community, share a pitcher of sangria, meet their life-long loves and, most important, listen to and to play great music.

But in March, it closed for good.