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COVID Today
COVID TODAY: As we move back into orange Wednesday, county cautions that safety is still essential
COVID Dashboard: Bay Area’s summer surge is waning. Will it last?
Civic Life
Could this COVID program help reduce the California housing crisis?
Why it’s taking people with COVID-19 so long to finally get a negative test
Cognitive rehab could help older adults clear COVID-related brain fog
L.A. schools drop aggressive COVID-19 rules: No more testing for all and masks stay optional
COVID Dashboard: BART brings back masks as Bay Area case rate stabilizes, Watsonville testing site moves
Necessary or excessive? Debate intensifies over potential mask rule for L.A. County
Latest News
Labor unions are hot, but their moment might not last
How one California family helped win new benefits for sickened vets
Politics
Newsom pins political rise on abortion, guns and health care
Inflation slowed a bit in July. Has it finally peaked?
Health
Fears of losing battle to control monkeypox in California, U.S. as cases surge
Health & Wellness
COVID sewage surveillance labs join the hunt for monkeypox
A California man’s ‘painful and terrifying’ road to a monkeypox diagnosis
Music festivals embrace overdose reversal drugs, but fentanyl testing kits remain taboo
Environment
Morro Bay’s three iconic smokestacks are coming down, and a community mourns
Facing extreme heat and drought, young Californians cope to beat climate anxiety and doom
Saltwater toilets, desperate wildlife: Water-starved Catalina Island battles against drought
Wildfires
Thunderstorms, mudslides hamper firefighters’ battle against deadly McKinney wildfire
City Life
Watsonville-born playwright Spike Wong explores his identity through his work — and makes up for lost time
Wallace Baine
Graveyards are our thing: As resting places fade into history, how can we pay our respects?
Food & Drink
EATERS DIGEST: Tea at Vim, Burger in Aptos closes and Madson Wines opens Westside tasting room
Paying it forward: Nativo Gonzalez searches for Santa Cruz’s soul with ‘Paid the Cost’ podcast