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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.
California's workplace regulators are set to again reconsider controversial masking rules designed to protect employees against the coronavirus.
In what a district attorney called a "dangerous combination," prosecutors say a gun bust has led investigators to uncover $600,000 in pandemic-related fraud from California's beleaguered unemployment agency.
The state Department of Health is asking Californians to be on the lookout -- and to report -- any incidents of potential fraud involving scammers trying to take advantage of the state's recently announced COVID-19 vaccination incentive programs.
The seriousness of the drought can best be seen in the pastures of West Marin County where cattle ranchers are being forced to take drastic action. It is a dire warning about the severity of the water emergency.
In a marathon, hours-long session that ended Thursday night, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) rejected and then approved its new mask rules, sparking pushback and public confusion.
The largest vaccine incentive program in the U.S. was underway on Friday as Calfornia Gov. Gavin Newsom was to draw the first winners of the state's cash prize drawings.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Bank of America Tuesday in the wake of widespread fraudulent Employment Development Department (EDD) claims totaling billions of dollars and the suspension of unemployment benefits to the hundreds of thousands of Californians affected.
California will continue to allow outdoor dining expansions and parklets past the June 15 date of the state's reopening as part of a plan to boost restaurant business, Governor Gavin Newsom announced Thursday.
The State of California launched its first-in-the-nation task force Tuesday, examining the possibility of reparations for the history of slavery and discrimination against African-Americans.
California state lawmakers are grappling with a particularly 21st-century problem: What to do with the growing number of shopping malls and big box retail stores left empty by consumers shifting their purchases to the web.
A conservation group is planting more than 30,000 milkweed plants in California in the hope of giving Western monarch butterflies new places to breed.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday unveiled a $116.5 million vaccine incentive program that would offer cash prizes to people, including a $15 million cash prize that would be split between 10 people.
With an eye toward a future powered by green energy, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a historic agreement Tuesday with federal officials on a deal to develop off-shore wind power generating platforms along the California coast.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has set some of the nation's most ambitious goals for weaning his state off oil, including a ban on the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035 and the end of oil production a decade later.
California extended its slow but steady economic recovery in April, adding more than 100,000 jobs for the third consecutive month, officials said Friday.
The latest U.S. drought data released Thursday morning put portions of the North and East Bay into exceptional drought conditions, according to officials.
Bay Area health officials said Wednesday they agree with the state's guidance on face masks, which is to continue wearing masks in most indoor settings for the next four weeks.
California's top energy regulators on Tuesday said the state is better prepared to avoid last summer's rotating blackouts, but they cautioned the power grid of the nation's most populous state is still vulnerable to extreme heat waves that could force more outages later this year.
Nearly a third of California's restaurants permanently closed and two-thirds of workers at least temporarily lost their jobs as the pandemic set in more than a year ago.
Fossils dating back some five to ten million years have been found in the Mokelumne River watershed in the Sierra Nevada foothills in what's being called one of the most significant fossil discoveries in California history, researchers announced Tuesday.
California health officials said Monday they were keeping the state's current mask mandates in place until June 15.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday proposed a $268 billion state budget that is one-third larger than the state's current spending plan, fueled by surging state tax revenues and federal stimulus money.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday proposed $12 billion in new funding to get more people experiencing homelessness in the state into housing and to "functionally end family homelessness" within five years.
As the clock ticks down to California's reopening from all COVID-19 restrictions on June 15 and with state coffers flush with a $75.7 billion budget surplus, Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a $100 billion recovery plan which will include individual tax rebates of up to $1,100.
