Vaccines

The evolving federal timeline has complicated an already enormous challenge for a state as large and diverse as California: how to distribute a brand new vaccine to millions of residents?

It’s critical that we encourage the early adoption of any successfully developed COVID-19 vaccine and promote the widespread use of the flu vaccine.

SoCal real estate empire comes under scrutiny for treatment of residents. Toll from Camp Fire continues to grow. Anti-vaxxers seek refuge in Idaho.

Newsom signs bill allowing college athletes to sign endorsement deals. Plan to expand Shasta Dam falters. Former state officials enter cannabis business.

California joins Boise in Supreme Court homeless case. Kamala Harris' home state numbers sink. College professors bring courses to prisons.

California sues Trump administration over tailpipe emissions laws. State looks to combat Amazon deforestation. 'Public charge' rule sows fear.

Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego, is among California’s more powerful state lawmakers and an ally of labor unions. This year, she led the fight to win new protections for gig workers, and won passage of a landmark workplace bill, AB 5. To launch our new video series of political profiles, “The Deciders,” […]

Newsom rejects 'Trump insurance.' Anti-vax battle turns bloody. UAW official involved in Tesla fight is charged with corruption.

The law takes effect Jan. 1. It gives health officials final say on medical waivers, with the authority to reject them. Opponents hope to overturn it.

Even by the last-minute, helter-skelter standards of the end of California’s legislative session, the past 24 hours were remarkable. It will go down in Capitol lore having culminated in the Senate’s emergency relocation, a woman’s arrest, and a senator’s morning-after visit to the doctor in accordance with “safety protocols for blood exposure.” At around 5:15 […]