Child Care

Lawmakers want answers on CA mask deals gone awry. California becomes first state to choose all-mail voting for November. How big is state's budget hole?

The new child care portal intended to help essential workers find child care during the pandemic lacks key information, including many providers' names, available slots, violations and cost. But a new and more elaborate site has been in the works and will launch in July.

Calfiornia sends 500 ventilators to federal government. Essential workers get child care help. Demand for small business loans crashes system.

A new executive order signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom would allow state agencies to waive regulations and offer state-subsidized child care and priority to those deemed essential workers.

California braces for a coronavirus-induced recession as economic prognosis grows grim. Residents flock to local parks to escape cabin fever.

The state is letting child care centers remain open to support those fighting coronavirus, but providers and parents alike are still feeling the strain.

Tamara Hudson’s workday routine typically starts before 4 a.m., when the bleary-eyed single mother rouses her 2-year-old son in their Redwood City home, wraps him in a blanket and places him in her Honda for the first of her 40-mile round trips to the closest daycare provider she can afford. After dropping him off in […]

Hospitalizations tied to cannabis vaping. California to offer child care help for parent-students. Will new use-of-force law protect mentally ill?

Battle for control of PG&E takes shape. Pay raises missing in budget increase for child care. Professors want UC to divest from oil and gas industry.

Law on use of police force moves closer to reality. Democrats continue push for health care legislation. Senate approves "Trump insurance" bill.