Coronavirus

As California clamps down amid a daunting coronavirus surge, the state will begin placing its first vaccine orders Friday, officials announce.

Imposing the strictest restrictions in months, Gov. Gavin Newsom announces a regional stay-at-home order tied to an alarmingly low number of hospital beds amid a statewide coronavirus surge.

California’s churches are on a roll. After more than a year of legal tussling with state public health officials over restrictions on indoor gatherings, houses of worship — mostly evangelical or Catholic and politically conservative — have been on a winning streak at the nation’s highest court.  Their latest victory came late last week when […]

The virus is surging in California's overcrowded prisons as early releases slow. And county jails are struggling with a backlog of inmates awaiting transfers to state facilities.

As California faces a surge in coronavirus cases, vaccines may be weeks away with three drug companies reporting promising results.

The impact of the pandemic on children and teenagers has been profound. Kids have lost access to in-person education. They’ve watched loved ones get very sick. They’ve faced hunger, and the menace of eviction. And many are mourning smaller, but still painful, losses — graduations, school dances, birthday parties, grandparents’ hugs.  Do you have a […]

The pandemic has touched all of us, in ways that might have seemed unimaginable just a year ago.  We have lost beloved parents and grandparents, siblings and children and friends. Our own health and mental health have been challenged, sometimes acutely. We have lost income, lost housing, lost the stability those provide. Our children have […]

A model calculates a 12% chance that a guest at a small dinner party in Napa Valley is infected with the virus. Whether indoors or outdoors, dining in a restaurant is “amongst the riskiest things we do for COVID,” a UC San Francisco health expert said.

Backed by the state’s attorney general and welcomed by labor advocates as better late than never, California's new policy will start to hold businesses accountable for protecting their workers, mandate reporting outbreaks and decrease crowding in housing for vulnerable guest farmworkers spotlighted in a California Divide investigation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a new round of curfews from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. to slow the spread of the coronavirus in California. Businesses say they have already altered hours to comply with health restrictions and some county sheriff's offices plan not to enforce.