California Divide

Feeling unsafe after a COVID-19 outbreak, employees of the Primex pistachio plant are calling for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to investigate the company.

Without internet access, getting health care is harder than ever.

The pandemic has left millions of Californians without jobs, food or money for next month's rent. Meanwhile, the state's many billionaires got richer.

Hotel and travel businesses will have to rehire by seniority. Oakland is the latest city to pass a "right to recall" ordinance, following San Francisco and Los Angeles.

The number of people receiving help from food banks has doubled across the seven-county Bay Area from pre-pandemic levels.

Hotel and airport workers are pushing Oakland’s City Council to adopt right to recall legislation.

Despite state programs, low-income and minority applicants struggle to break into legal cannabis market.

The Primex plant waited 16 days before shutting down for only five days. Employees still feel unsafe after 112 workers and family members, including a baby, have been sickened.

California's pandemic safety net programs are straining under overwhelming demand. So did Gov. Gavin Newsom overpromise or underdeliver?