San Mateo County Supervisors Lisa Gauthier and Jackie Speier host second county child care town hall in East Palo Alto’s EPACENTER on Aug. 27, 2025. Photo by Lisa Moreno Connie Rodriguez, who runs a ...

Area day care centers and in-home child care providers are trying to provide quality child care, but it’s not easy. Kids Depot in Hutchinson and Stay-n-Play in Litchfield have been mainstay child care ...

Zoila Carolina Toma holds a baby while running a family child care out of her home in Lakewood on Friday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) Adriana Lorenzo has stopped letting children play outside ...

I retired from the practice of family child care last December after 29 years. That same month, I attended a funeral for Deanna Robles, an amazing family child care provider and early care and ...

More in-home child care providers in Minnesota are shutting their doors, and many day care centers are closing, too, leaving thousands of parents scrambling to find places for their children to stay ...

About half of in-home child-care providers and a quarter of the teaching staff at larger child-care centers in Los Angeles are immigrants. Among these workers, fear has become palpable amid ongoing ...