California Reopens: Cases Rising As Delta Variant Spreads Among Unvaccinated
California broadly reopened its economy barely two weeks ago and since then an especially contagious coronavirus variant has spread among the unvaccinated.
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California broadly reopened its economy barely two weeks ago and since then an especially contagious coronavirus variant has spread among the unvaccinated.
Homicides in California jumped 31% last year, making it the deadliest year since 2007, and Black people accounted for nearly one-third of all victims, according to reports released Thursday.
Hate crimes in California have reached their highest level in more than a decade, particularly in the Asian community which has seen hate crimes more than double in 2020, according to new data unveiled Wednesday by Attorney General Rob Bonta.
Several new California laws are set to take effect Thursday, when the new fiscal year begins.
The $262.6 billion proposal now on its way to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk would restore spending cuts made last year when state officials thought they were facing a record budget deficit because of the coronavirus.
California will restrict state-funded travel to Florida, Montana, West Virginia, Arkansas, and North Dakota over anti-LGBTQ legislation recently enacted in those states, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Monday.
Officials with Google on Monday confirmed the protocols the company will be following for initial reopening at its California offices in July ahead of the anticipated full return of employees in September.
Former Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel, a staunch anti-war advocate who read the Pentagon Papers into the record on the floor of the Senate, died at his home in Monterey County, California.
The widely-expected recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom has been formally initiated after a final report on verified signatures, the California Secretary of State announced Wednesday.
San Jose State University can now count itself among one of the main drivers of California's economy, the fifth largest in the world, according to a new report.
State lawmakers are scrambling to hammer out a deal to extend California's eviction moratorium before the June 30th deadline.
Attorney General Rob Bonta launched new anti-human trafficking teams to apprehend perpetrators and support survivors on Friday amid an alarming increase in labor and sexual exploitation statewide.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Thursday enabling revisions to the state's COVID-19 public health order after regulators approved revised worksite pandemic rules allowing fully vaccinated employees the same freedoms as when they are off the job, including ending most mask requirements.
County officials from across California are weighing in when they will be ready to hold the recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom. They say they can't do it until at the earliest mid-September.
California's county elections officials are urging the lieutenant governor not to schedule the expected recall election of Gov. Gavin Newsom before mid-September.
From small neighborhood bakeries to big-box grocery stores, large numbers of Bay Area customers Tuesday continued to wear face masks even though they were no longer required by state law.
Standing in the entrance to Universal Studios as families poured into the amusement park free of COVID restrictions, Governor Gavin Newsom marked the end of such rules Tuesday and ushered in the state's full reopening, with the celebration punctuated by picking the winners of a $1.5 million cash giveaway to vaccinated Californians.
At the stroke of midnight Tuesday the majority of the lifestyle restrictions put into place to stem the deadly tide of the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted, but there was confusion over those that remain. The majority of the questions seem to center on wearing masks.
The gradual reopening of California has been going on for months, but in 48 hours our COVID-19 world will look a lot different.
California is urging its citizens to help jump-start the economy on the eve of the state's reopening with a call to spend their vacation dollars in the state, while announcing help for the state's tourism industry and a new vacation incentive for people to get vaccinated.
The federal government has reached an agreement to restore nearly $1 billion in funding for California's troubled bullet train, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced.
As the pandemic wanes, the hope is that Californians will be able to return to a more normal life but will there be a return to a more normal weight?
It will cost California counties an estimated $215 million to stage an expected recall election this year that could oust Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom from office, state analysts said Thursday.
More than a dozen mayors from the California's largest cities issued a statement in support of a $1 billion annual budget allocation for homelessness.
California public health officials on Wednesday announced that the state would follow CDC masking guidelines when the California fully reopens on June 15 with vaccinated residents being allowed to go without masks in most circumstances.
