COLUMN—Black Friday, which kicks off the busiest shopping weekend of the year, also marks the launch of a new consumer boycott targeting Amazon, Home Depot and Target. The campaign communicates that diversity is the best value. Read the latest from Erin Aubry Kaplan: capitalandmain.com/black-friday

A program in Los Angeles County is recycling unused food to feed hungry residents — and offering a model for other cities. capitalandmain.com/is-the-solut...

In this two-part series published in partnership with the Los Angeles Times, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Robert J. Lopez Lopez exposes the dangerous and punishing working conditions faced by child and teenage agricultural workers in California. capitalandmain.com/californias-...

Cubans and other third-country nationals deported from the U.S. are being dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa, Mexico, where they struggle to survive. Though Mexico receives these deportees, it does not give them any legal status to live or work there. capitalandmain.com/im-lost-in-t...

A recent @capitalandmain.bsky.social investigation reveals that California’s system for protecting farmworkers from pesticide exposure is dangerously fragmented. capitalandmain.com/lax-oversight-few-inspections-leave-child-farmworkers-exposed-to-toxic-pesticides

Child laborers and other farmworkers in California are being exposed to toxic pesticides, in part because of splintered enforcement of safety regulations. capitalandmain.com/lax-oversigh...

COLUMN—California’s housing crisis didn’t begin on Gov. Gavin Newsom’s watch. But it’s fair to wonder whether Newsom will be able to claim any significant progress in the area he’s made so central to his agenda by the time he leaves office in early 2027. capitalandmain.com/seven-years-...

As scientists draw clearer links between climate extremes like landslides, and sound the alarm over rising greenhouse gas emissions, the government under Trump is increasingly unable and often unwilling to help residents prepare for and survive such events. capitalandmain.com/california-e...

An investigation by Capital & Main, in partnership with the @latimes.com, found that enforcement of child labor laws is negligible in CA’s fields and that underage farmworkers endure punishing conditions, including extreme heat and exposure to pesticides. capitalandmain.com/californias-...

Despite a burst of new housing laws, buying a home in California is increasingly unattainable – especially for lower-income earners, a new report shows. capitalandmain.com/seven-years-...

Despite being home to one of the largest petrochemical industries in the world, Texas has a rapidly growing solar energy market. But a dramatic shift in federal policy and funding under Trump has left the industry unstable and uncertain of the future. Republished from @capitalandmain.bsky.social.

Capital & Main found children as young as 12 working in California’s agriculture industry. The state is failing to ensure their health and safety. #Farmworkers #ChildLabor #California #News Editor: Marco Amador, Jeremy Lindenfeld Producer: Cerise Castle (@cerisecastle.bsky.social )

Congratulations to Capital & Main reporter Aaron Cantú for this well-deserved recognition of his work in environmental journalism. 👏🎉

Environmentalists see Pennsylvania lawmakers' decision to pull out of a climate initiative as a ‘shocking reversal’ on fighting global warming; the fossil fuel industry claims it would have led to higher utility bills. capitalandmain.com/after-years-...

Employers, unions and advocacy groups are organizing to protect vulnerable immigrant workers from being targeted, detained and deported by federal agencies. Here’s how. Camera/Editor: Jeremy Lindenfeld Producers: JL, Cerise Castle #LosAngeles #LosAngelesNews #ICEinLA #Immigrants #Workers

Hundreds of Aurora residents are hoping an imperiled frog will help them persuade state regulators to deny a request to build one of Colorado’s largest oil and gas pads on a former bombing range less than a mile their homes in the Denver suburbs. capitalandmain.com/can-an-imper...

Pennsylvania Democrats spent years staving off attacks from Republicans and the fossil fuel industry over a landmark climate initiative. Now the state has pulled out of the program altogether, in what environmentalists are calling a 'shocking reversal.' capitalandmain.com/after-years-...

ICE raids are posing a new hurdle for Black and Latino families to pay rent in one of America’s most expensive cities. But they’ve also catalyzed Black neighbors in Los Angeles to act. capitalandmain.com/in-south-l-a...

Many of the 24 million working and middle-class Americans insured through the Affordable Care Act may forgo insurance if their bills multiply. capitalandmain.com/barring-a-sh...

Special education teachers fear the Trump administration’s funding cuts and layoffs will unravel progress for millions of students with disabilities. capitalandmain.com/future-of-sp...

As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe. capitalandmain.com/in-south-l-a...

In an effort to halt the growth of renewable energy in favor of the oil and gas industry, the Trump administration is phasing out the renewable energy tax credit by January 2026 and eliminating Solar for All — stripping recipients of any initially awarded funds. capitalandmain.com/known-for-it...

Threatened northern leopard frogs have been found near the site of what would be one of Colorado’s largest fossil fuel operations. Residents hope the amphibian will help them stop a drilling operation near the Aurora Reservoir and their homes. capitalandmain.com/can-an-imper...

The U.S. government has been deporting Mexican nationals by plane directly to Tapachula and Villahermosa, two small cities in Mexico’s southern border states, far away from the country’s longstanding infrastructure in the north to receive deportees. capitalandmain.com/u-s-deports-...

With critical federal subsidies set to expire at the end of the year, the cost of health insurance that is purchased through the Affordable Care Act marketplace is about to explode — in many cases, doubling or tripling what people have been paying. capitalandmain.com/barring-a-sh...

The Department of Homeland Security has authorized arrests for those taking photos or videos of ICE officers. Volunteers worry it’s an attempt to stop them from documenting abuse. From @bgirledukate.bsky.social with @capitalandmain.bsky.social: trib.al/mPU6i8y

The state of Texas was to get $400 million for solar energy in disadvantaged communities. The Trump administration took it all back. capitalandmain.com/known-for-it...

“I am assigned the duties of two people,” said Florence Uzuegbunam, a nurse practitioner who works in primary care at a VA hospital outside of Atlanta. “Many of my co-workers told me they are putting an average of four hours unpaid daily just to keep up with the workload.” #VeteransDay

Activists fear the Trump administration will use new rules to cover up misconduct by immigration officials. capitalandmain.com/photos-video...

COLUMN —The growing “No Kings” street protests aren’t a new phenomenon. They’re the nation’s social conscience, picking up where George Floyd left off. Read the column by Erin Aubry Kaplan: capitalandmain.com/once-more-wi...

The impact of understaffing, facility closures and waiting times at the VA has been “dire” under Trump’s second term, medical workers say. capitalandmain.com/despite-vow-...

1 in 8 people rely on federal food aid that became a pawn in the government shutdown. capitalandmain.com/congress-cou...

Many people recently deported on flights told Capital & Main that the U.S. government had taken their phones, and they struggled with the little money that they had to find their way out of being stranded in a city they did not know. capitalandmain.com/u-s-deports-...

New story: TL;DR - #cattle ranching family blindsided by a change in their relationship with the massive company that pulls #oil and #gas from their lands. Spills, bad roads and spoiled hunts ensue. Also a lesson in the split estate. capitalandmain.com/the-david-vs... @capitalandmain.bsky.social

They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t. capitalandmain.com/the-david-vs...

COLUMN: In many cases, SNAP recipients don’t earn enough to make ends meet despite working full time. That’s largely because the federal minimum wage remains $7.25 an hour. capitalandmain.com/congress-cou...

The Hodgson family runs a ranch in the San Juan Basin that spans several thousand acres. Everywhere you look on that land, there’s an oil or gas well. Now the ranchers say their oil giant neighbor is impacting their livestock, land and livelihood. capitalandmain.com/the-david-vs...

A lawsuit by CNX Resources Corporation accuses Capital & Main of defamation for quoting sources critical of an industry-written study. Capital & Main requested comment from CNX prior to publication of the story, but the company did not respond at that time. capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

When wildfire tore through Los Angeles County’s Altadena community in January, Retha De Johnette never expected the disabled residents of the assisted-living facility she runs to remain displaced across the Southland nearly a year later. capitalandmain.com/people-with-...

There is still time to vote on Prop 50! If you need a quick explainer, here’s a video I made for @capitalandmain.bsky.social youtu.be/I0UAqzoB9_U?...

More than 4,000 health care workers have left the VA this year, but the VA claims it isn’t affecting care. Patients and workers tell a different story: “Our staffing in the ER is beyond dire now.” From @marcusbaram.bsky.social and @capitalandmain.bsky.social: trib.al/2oxbfO8

Californians have until Nov 4 to vote on Prop 50—a ballot measure that would temporarily redraw CA’s congressional map in favor of Democrats to cancel out similar Republican efforts in TX. CA, how are you voting on Prop 50? Editor: Jeremy Lindenfeld Producers: JL, @cerisecastle.bsky.social

Veteran Affairs Secretary Doug Collins vowed to have reduced the size of the agency by 30,000 positions by Sept 30 without impacting health services for veterans. Meanwhile, health care workers say patients are waiting longer for shorter appointments. capitalandmain.com/despite-vow-...

Wildfires in Southern California disrupted thousands of lives, including those of disabled residents who continue to search for a place to call home. People with disabilities are up to four times more likely to never return home after a natural disaster. capitalandmain.com/people-with-...

Pennsylvania natural gas producer CNX Resources Corporation has sued Capital & Main for defamation over the news organization’s reporting on the health risks of the company’s operations. Capital & Main stands by its reporting and vows to fight the suit. capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

COLUMN: A proposed ballot initiative would tax California’s billionaires’ wealth to stabilize Medicaid amid sharp federal cuts. California’s 2026 Billionaire Tax Act, as it’s called, aims to address an existential threat to the collective well-being of the Golden State.

Former colleagues hope that organizer and activist Kent Wong’s outsized legacy can endure after his passing. capitalandmain.com/the-loss-of-...

Juan González, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, lived in Pasadena for three decades before a wildfire, heart attack and ICE raids got him thinking about “self-deporting” back to Mexico.

Today, only 4% of retail workers in the U.S. are unionized. That is even lower than the private sector average of just under 6%. capitalandmain.com/dollar-store...

Drastic times and drastic measures come to California. Many Black leaders see Proposition 50 as necessary to neutralize a GOP power grab that endangers bedrock civil rights, writes Erin Aubry Kaplan. capitalandmain.com/represent-this