Imperial County

Good morning, California. It’s Tuesday, August 4. Newsom guardedly optimistic For the first time in a long while, California has some good coronavirus news. The state’s positive case rate declined by 7%, hospitalizations by 10% and intensive-care admissions by 5% over the past two weeks, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. One month ago, California’s positive […]

Virus hot spot Imperial County went forward with eviction proceedings barred by the state judicial system.

California's COVID-19 epicenter is Imperial County, an impoverished agricultual oasis with an unusual history.

Imperial County on the Mexican border has the state's highest rate of COVID-19 cases, straining hospitals and forcing the transfer of 500 critically ill patients outside the region.

Good morning, California. It’s Monday, June 29. Some parts of California are going back under lockdown.  Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday ordered bars to close in seven counties and recommended they close in eight others following a week in which each day heralded a new all-time high of coronavirus-related hospitalizations. Newsom: “COVID-19 is still circulating […]

As Gov. Gavin Newsom demands Imperial County return to sheltering-in-place, 14 other counties are on the state's watchlist.

Lea este artículo en español. Updated June 22, 2020 Climbing over the past week, California’s numbers for statewide coronavirus-related hospitalizations this weekend exceeded the record levels set in late April, CalMatters’ hospital data tracker shows.  The tracker, which pulls from state data, shows that on Sunday, 3,702 patients who’ve tested positive for the novel coronavirus were […]

Feds to announce big changes to state water system. Imperial County wants help with Salton Sea crisis. Is Gavin Newsom actually a moderate?

Defending California's internet privacy law, the plan to tax online sales, the air in Imperial County and Jerry Brown's pension.

California's Imperial County is emblematic of life for millions of people around the state who live under an umbrella of bad air quality or who have contaminated soil or lack access to clean water.  The majority of these environmental hot spots are concentrated in low-income communities of color.