Coronavirus

Grading policies at California public schools have changed as a result of the coronavirus. How they've changed depends on the district.

Las normas de calificación varían según el distrito escolar, pero los estudiantes no recibirán calificaciones más bajas de las que tenían, y en muchos casos tendrán opciones.

California set to start partial reopening Friday. Colleges use lessons from past disasters to confront coronavirus. COVID-19 hits Pacific Islanders hard.

For two weeks in March, Dr. Raynald Samoa fought to move air through his lungs. After recovering from COVID-19, the Los Angeles-based diabetes specialist posted videos on Facebook urging others to stay home. His posts resonated with California’s small but tight-knit Pacific Islander community as questions and stories flooded his inbox. One family described the […]

California se prepara para entrenar a miles de trabajadores del Estado para rastrear la propagación del virus en medio de los planes para reabrir el Estado.

California gears up to train thousands of coronavirus detectives amid plans to re-open the state. 

Health officials say the coronavirus is controlled enough to allow retail and manufacturing businesses to partially reopen.

Officials at Butte College gathered one fall Wednesday in 2018 for a tabletop exercise in disaster planning. As California’s fire seasons had become more deadly, utilities were threatening to shut off power as a way of preventing downed lines from igniting blazes. Other catastrophes, such as school shootings, were also on officials’ minds. Administrators at […]

Some of Newsom's ambitious coronavirus-response plans fail to materialize. Push to reopen grows in some localities even as testing lags.

Angry demonstrators, many unmasked, crammed toward the state Capitol demanding Gov. Gavin Newsom loosen or lift restrictions designed to contain the coronavirus pandemic. The bigger risk for Newsom: Losing buy-in from local officials to make his edicts relevant up and down this diverse state.