Op-Ed: Pandemics spread like wildfire, and fire is a contagion too
Fire is like COVID-19. The only response that works is systemic preparedness.
Fire is like COVID-19. The only response that works is systemic preparedness.
Supporters of Senate Bill 793 say that a new ad from big tobacco falsely and cynically portrays itself as an ally of people of color.
Just a week into fall semester, USC reported that 43 students had tested positive for COVID-19 and more than100 placed in quarantine because of exposure.
Three more counties came off California's COVID-19 watchlist over the weekend after showing a decline in case counts and transmission rates for three consecutive days.
Orange County hopes to be able to allow all K-12 schools to reopen but must stay off the state's watchlist. L.A. County is a different story.
The dean of the Keck School of Medicine will leave her post after not quite three years, USC announced on Monday.
The California Supreme Court overturned Peterson's death sentence for killing his wife and unborn son. The penalty portion of his case may be retried.
A day after he would have turned 42, Kobe Bryant is remembered on Monday, 8/24, in the city of Los Angeles and Orange County.
The Cal State system announced in early May that it would go all virtual in the fall, but plans for instruction and student services vary by campus and county.
It was just the Tamil word for auntie, two syllables in a speech by Kamala Harris last Thursday that covered her childhood, heritage and political awakening and culminated in her acceptance of the Democratic Party nomination for vice president.
In a vast, rural Northern California county with few cases of COVID-19, a public school district reopened to in-classroom instruction, even as most in the state are doing virtual distance learning. Last year, the district lost its campus buildings to black mold and is hoping to keep its doors open as long as possible.
With millions at risk of eviction, renters must come first as California's governor and lawmakers try to reach a legislative compromise with landlords.
Angela Martinez said she was neither man, nor woman, nor transgender. She was muxe, a third gender recognized in the Zapotec culture in Mexico.
The next few days will be critical for California firefighters already pushed to capacity, as storms could bring lightning that ignites more fires.
The top 1% of California taxpayers kick in nearly half the state income tax. California is already leaning very heavily on its richest citizens — too heavily for good tax policy.
If the rates of new cases and tests performed, percentages of positive tests and hospitalizations, as well as available intensive care beds and ventilators remain at acceptable levels for the next two weeks, K-12 students could resume in-person classes after Labor Day weekend.
Firefighter's wallet stolen, bank account drained as he battling massive California blaze, authorities say