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Southern California and the Central Valley are by far the state’s biggest contributors of total COVID-19 deaths in the last week.
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The state Cannabis Advisory Committee recommended changes that included lifting the $5,000 limit on the amount of pot that can be carried by delivery vans.
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The city of Manhattan Beach has repurposed newly closed outdoor dining areas as public seating spaces where people can sit and potentially dine.
San Francisco health officials urge residents to stay home, calling it “probably the most important message” since the pandemic began.
Experts have yet to unlock the connection between the coronavirus and MIS-C, but doctors say the spike in COVID infections is tied to the uptick in MIS-C cases.
The nation’s largest four-year university system, among the first to announce an all-virtual instruction plan this fall, says it’s resuming primarily in-person classes and activities at CSU campuses in fall 2021.
Facing backlash from parents, the state of California reverses its COVID-19 rules and says playgrounds can remain open.
Sheriffs in Southern California are turning out to be Keystone corona-Kops during the COVID-19 pandemic, failing to bring law and order to their counties.
As a COVID-19 vaccine begins to become available, a new challenge emerges: convincing people to get it.
Hospital ICUs full in Silicon Valley, Central Valley as state braces for more
After “a gloomy COVID winter,” widespread vaccination will bring years of robust growth to California’s economy, the UCLA Anderson forecast says.
The L.A. City Council also agreed to borrow $150 million and drain much of the city’s reserves in an attempt to erase a projected $675-million deficit.
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A judge has ruled that once the L.A. County ban expires Dec. 16, public health officials must conduct a risk-benefit analysis to extend any closures.
California on Tuesday shattered single-day records of coronavirus cases and deaths with the state’s worst tallies by far of the entire pandemic.
Latino residents were nearly three times as likely, and Black residents nearly twice as likely, to be hospitalized with COVID-19 as white residents.
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The management of an extended-stay Studio 6 motel in Commerce locked out formerly homeless residents even as L.A. County was buying the property to house homeless people.
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