California
Early turnout has been dismal before all polling sites opened today, election day, in California…
An extensive report released by California officials on Wednesday, 6/1, details the state’s history of racism against Black residents and offers recommendations for repairing those harms - the first government-sponsored study of its kind in more than five decades…
Los Angeles will ban many businesses from selling tobacco products that come in sweet, spicy and minty flavors under new restrictions backed Wednesday, 6/1, by the City Council…
The California Department of Public Health’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program is expanding its list of baby formula brands covered by WIC benefits from five to 130, the department announced…
Leaders in the Senate and Assembly last week unveiled their draft budget, laying out plans to send nearly $10 billion back to Californians and shore up the state’s reserves against an apparently inevitable fiscal downturn in years to come…
California regulators on Thursday, 6/2, gave a robotic taxi service the green light to begin charging passengers for driverless rides in San Francisco, a first in a state where dozens of companies have been trying to train vehicles to steer themselves on increasingly congested roads…
Coronavirus
There are initial signs that California’s latest wave of COVID-19 cases may be slowing, although it’ll take more time to be certain…
COVID-19 vaccinations for children under 5 years old are likely to begin June 21, according to White House COVID Response Coordinator Ashish Jha on Thursday, 6/2…
Masks reduce the spread of COVID-19 by preventing virus particles from traveling from one person’s nose or mouth into the air and infecting another person…
Schools mulling renewed mask mandates don’t need to wait for COVID-19 risk levels to increase in their community if outbreaks are already occurring on campus, according to updated COVID-19 operational guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as campuses begin summer break…