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Samuel Dissels cleans a table at Oyo restaurant's newly built outdoor dining area in Pleasanton on Dec. 3, 2020. Public health officials announced Monday that the stay-at-home order has been lifted and counties will return to the color coded tiered system, allowing for businesses to begin reopening. Photo by Doug Duran, Bay Area News Group

As Newsom lifts stay-at-home order, new COVID-19 reopening questions emerge

by Lauren Hepler January 25, 2021January 26, 2021

Outdoor dining and personal care businesses are allowed to reopen — pending local approval — after the latest abrupt shift in the state’s handling of the pandemic.

Registered Nurse Reanne Takara administers the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to frontline health workers at UC Davis Medical Center on Dec. 15, 2020. Photo courtesy of UC Davis Health

Who’s next? Counties lobbied over vaccine priority list

by Barbara Feder Ostrov and Ana B. Ibarra December 21, 2020January 5, 2021

On Friday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the opening of a PerkinElmer lab in Santa Clarita that will help double statewide COVID-19 testing capacity by March. File photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/ Pool

Newsom pledges more COVID-19 testing capacity with new lab

by Ana B. Ibarra October 30, 2020January 5, 2021

California Divide

Newsom signs COVID-19 protections for agricultural workers

by Kate Cimini October 1, 2020October 7, 2020

Newsom may have erred on re-opening amid pandemic, but he has embraced accountability

by Guest Commentary July 21, 2020July 27, 2020

Cleverson Davis, a waiter at Palermo Italian Restaurant in San Jose tends to customers while wearing a mask on June 5, 2020. Photo by Dai Sugano, Bay Area News Group

State cracks down on bars, restaurants

by Emily Hoeven July 7, 2020July 7, 2020

ICU admissions up 49% before 4th of July

by Emily Hoeven July 3, 2020July 3, 2020

California readies army of coronavirus detectives

by Rachel Becker May 4, 2020May 19, 2020

A healthcare worker at a Kaiser hospital in San Francisco on April 9, 2020. Today, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state would make hotel rooms available to care providers in regions with high rates of COVID-19 infections who need to self-isolate. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

Amid pandemic, Newsom faces scrutiny over $1B face-mask deal

by Laurel Rosenhall and Dan Morain April 13, 2020April 13, 2020

Medical student Shreya Thatai holds up a sign outside of Berkeley Bowl asking for mask donations to help health care workers. California Gov. Gavin Newsom promises to have solved the shortage by cutting a massive deal for new masks. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

The art of the deal: California’s alliance could solve the nation’s mask shortage

by Jackie Botts and Dan Morain April 8, 2020April 9, 2020