Anna Maria Barry Jester

Bryan Ruiz, right, and Rick Alvarez search for signs of Aedes aegypti larvae in water sampled from a drainpipe in Ruiz’s front yard. Both, work for the Delta Mosquito and Vector Control District in Tulare County. (Photo, Anna Maria Barry-Jester/Kaiser Health News)

Rural California hatches plan for engineered mosquitoes to battle stealthy predator

May 10, 2022 at 1:16 p.m.

Tulare County officials hope the region will soon be a testing ground for a new generation of technology in a centuries-old war: Human vs. Mosquito.

Health officials see bright future in poop surveillance

March 24, 2022 at 3:03 p.m.

One of Patrick Green’s first orders of business each day is to open a tap and fill a bottle with sludge.

Rural, isolated, and immense, Del Norte is home to fewer than 28,000 people. People who are homeless in the region tend to gravitate to Crescent City, visible on the distant coastline, because it’s hard to survive anywhere else. “People need to eat,” says Heather Snow, county director of health and human services. (Photo: Anna Maria Barry-Jester/KHN)

‘I Just Want to Stay in One Spot’: From Homeless to Housed in Rugged Del Norte

February 18, 2022 at 12:39 p.m.

By California standards, the homeless population in Del Norte is small. According to the most recent survey, there were about 250 people without shelter in 2020. That is almost certainly...

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