Rong-Gong Lin II is a Metro reporter based in San Francisco who specializes in covering statewide earthquake safety issues and the COVID-19 pandemic. He won the California Newspaper Publishers Assn.’s Freedom of Information Award and the University of Florida’s Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award. He was a finalist for the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize for Excellence in Investigative Reporting and the Knight Award for Public Service. A San Francisco area native, he graduated from UC Berkeley in 2004.
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Tsunamis pose a risk to the entirety of the California coast. But should a major one strike, how bad could it be?
As promised, federal health officials this week dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.
A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California — heightening the risk of a summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get, and more expensive, for many Americans, some health experts warn.
Sen. Adam Schiff is urging Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to reinstate the earthquake retrofit funds, which would’ve been used to strengthen as many as 1,500 apartment buildings.
The volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only discovered its existence in the 1980s.
Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only discovered its existence in the 1980s.
The Bay Area Rapid Transit system said it had fully restored train lines after a systemwide shutdown interrupted the Friday morning commute. Delays were still likely.
A magnitude 3.2 earthquake hit a few miles south of Malibu on Wednesday, sending a gentle jolt through the beachside city and light shaking into Westside Los Angeles.
Los Angeles County reported another measles case, prompting officials to renew their call for residents to make sure they are vaccinated.