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Lucia Soares helps her two younger children, Emily, 9, and Daniel, 16, with their school work in their Modesto home. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

For 90% of students, school will be online

by Emily Hoeven July 20, 2020July 20, 2020

Newsom vs. Orange County — again

by Emily Hoeven July 15, 2020July 15, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom at the CalFire/Cameron Park Fire Station in Cameron Park on May 13, 2020. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo/Pool

Newsom orders California back to square one

by Emily Hoeven July 14, 2020July 14, 2020

Schools may return to 100% distance learning

by Emily Hoeven July 9, 2020July 9, 2020

Where to get financial help during coronavirus in California — and is it enough?

by Jackie Botts June 29, 2020July 7, 2020

Assemblywoman Sydney Kamlager, left, and Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, right, join other members of the California Legislature as they kneel for 8 minutes and 46 second to honor George Floyd at the Capitol on June 9, 2020. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP/Pool

Will CA amend its constitution post-protests?

by Emily Hoeven June 22, 2020June 27, 2020

Nurses prepare to enter the testing area at a drive thru COVID-19 testing facility at Cal Expo in Sacramento on April 15, 2020. The nurses work in teams of four and take shifts throughout the day. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

CA sends $457 mil for masks, then cancels

by Emily Hoeven May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

Nika Gambarin, left, brings her daughter Jamee, center, to her kindergarten class on the first day of school at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School in San Jose on Aug. 16, 2018.

California could reopen schools as early as July, Newsom says

by Ana B. Ibarra April 28, 2020April 28, 2020

Guadelupe Sanchez, an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in San Leandro, led a caravan of fellow essential workers as they circled a Hayward location on April 9 to demanding wage increases and more personal protective equipment from the corporation as essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Photo by Dylan Bouscher, Bay Area News Group

Labor vs. business fight over coronavirus costs

by Emily Hoeven April 27, 2020April 26, 2020

A man wearing disposable gloves and a bandana over his face walks past a boarded up shop on Haight Street in San Francisco on April 7, 2020. California is entering the fourth week of sheltering in place to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, and the number of Californians hospitalized and those in ICUs with COVID-19 is starting to edge up only slightly. Photo by Anne Wernikoff for CalMatters

CA to feds: Can we borrow >$11B for jobless?

by Emily Hoeven April 24, 2020April 24, 2020