The cute but destructive rodents are criminal masterminds, easily circumventing humans’ meager defenses.

Police chases kill nearly two people a day across the US, and the government is failing at nearly every level to address the growing problem.

The U.S. eliminated measles a quarter century ago, but to keep its “measles-free” designation, officials will have to make a strong case that measles is not continuously spreading within its borders. ...

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For their meticulous and heart-wrenching reporting on California’s psychiatric hospitals that put profits over patients and endangered some of the state’s most vulnerable citizens.

Public Health - Large, First place

A federal judge struck down the Defense Department’s new press policy that triggered an exodus of reporters from the Pentagon, calling it unconstitutional.

A federal judge in Virginia denied the Justice Department’s request to search a Washington Post reporter’s devices in a national security leak probe.

The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.

A year after the Los Angeles wildfires, California lawmakers unveiled three bills informed by the Chronicle’s reporting aimed at shoring up insurance payouts for wildfire victims.

Setting the record straight about our murdered colleague.

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Early this year, bird flu ripped through 80 farms in Ohio and Indiana. Using genetic markers, wind simulations, satellite imagery, property records and more, we found that the virus could’ve been airb...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vaccines could help, but the USDA hasn’t approved them.

The lawsuit alleges the camp and its owners deliberately chose not to make evacuation plans despite the facility’s location in an area known to flood.

More than an hour passed between Camp Mystic receiving a severe flood warning and a decision to evacuate young campers asleep in cabins by the Guadalupe River.

The Trump-Musk alliance collapses into mutual threats and recriminations.

Thomas Keller is a legendary chef. Chronicle critic MacKenzie Chung Fegan hadn’t met him, until she went to the French Laundry and he asked her to leave.

Jan. 6 rioters seek to build platforms after receiving pardons from President Donald Trump.

If enacted, the regulations would create minimum nurse-to-patient ratios in the locked facilities that treat patients in emotional crisis.

In the movies, a police car careens through crowded city streets and mangled vehicles pile up, but the collateral damage is almost never mentioned. In real life, those chases have fatal consequences. ...

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Behind locked drawers, in police departments all over California, sit documents no one is supposed to see. Known as clean-record agreements, they conceal officers' misconduct, helping them land new jo...

Violence and neglect plague the Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital. The California Department of Public Health has chosen not to meaningfully intervene.

Violence and neglect plague the Santa Rosa Behavioral Healthcare Hospital. The California Department of Public Health has chosen not to meaningfully intervene.

We’ll learn more from the reporters behind the investigative series “Failed to Death.”