Health

Throughout California, families sheltering in place are cut off from school, work and friends — lifelines the most vulnerable rely upon. Officials and advocates worry because domestic violence reports have surged and, with fewer eyes on kids, reports of potential abuse are down.

Neighbors are gifting toilet paper, buying groceries for the elderly and holding sing-alongs in the street at proper distances. Throughout California, people are watching out for each other as they stay home to slow the spread of coronavirus.

California partnered with philanthropies to provide up to $1,000 in coronavirus relief to households with undocumented workers, and committed to ramping up virus testing at community clinics serving poor and undocumented patients.

With coronavirus limiting human contact, campaigns are still trying to engage voters, raise money and make sure people vote in elections by mail.

Even as the death toll climbs to 758, Gov. Gavin Newsom praises Californians for bending the curve and lays out a science-based path for reopening California. But it may not be anytime soon.

Before the coronavirus pandemic, California was already a place where millions of workers struggled to make ends meet each month. Now, shelter-in-place orders have effectively left many more workers without jobs, unable to pay rent, feed their families or pay their bills. In other words, California’s safety net just got a lot more crowded. Fortunately, […]

Some nursing homes may run afoul of California officials, who say they may be required to accept recovering, but still infectious, COVID-19 patients.

California legislators have demanded more details about Gov. Gavin Newsom's coronavirus spending and a recent news report raised questions about the company contracted to make the masks.

The bulk of the money will manifest as $200 monthly payments to families with “at risk” children, with additional funds set to help buy protective gear for social workers and computers for children, among other things.

The Golden State appears to be flattening the curve, but it has come at a cost. We unravel the state's response to coronavirus and look at what will be different when Californians re-emerge.