It’s called “boarding,” and it paints a troubling picture — not enough ER staff to handle a wave of behavioral health patients streaming through the front door. In some cases, patients stay in the ER ...

Just when you couldn’t feel more frustrated about Sydney’s lack of affordable housing, developers and state governments are posing yet another shitty ‘fix’ to the problem: depressingly small boarding ...

AURORA, Ill. (AP) — At her mother’s home in Illinois, Tracy Balhan flips through photos of her dad, Bill Speer. In one picture, he’s smiling in front of a bucket of sweating beers and wearing a blue T ...

When I was a child in the 1950s, I remember the adults around me talking about boarding houses. Boarding houses were common from the 1800s through the 1950s. Often they were owned by widows who ...

One evening in late March, a mom north of Boston calls 911. Her daughter, she says, is threatening to kill herself. EMTs arrive, help calm the 13-year-old down and take her to an emergency room. Like ...