On Wednesday, state budget cuts forced a downtown Anchorage mental health clinic to shut its doors forever. Tuesday, clients of facility, called The Annex, protested the closing. More than 200 clients go there for counseling and to get their medicine.

OTTUMWA — The local hospital will soon be without a mental health unit. Ottumwa Regional Health Center leaders announced the change late Monday afternoon.

Dr. Andre Masters, who contributed an article on homelessness yesterday on page A13, is a consultant psychiatrist at the Victoria Mental Health Clinic. Incorrect information appeared with the article.

Benton County should use an estimated $1 million in sales tax money to beef up mental health programs in the county jail, contends County Commissioner Claude Oliver.

A new study finds that Vietnamese Americans over 55, most who came to the United States as political refugees, report more mental health problems than non-Hispanic whites. Vietnamese Americans participating in the California Health Interview Survey were t