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California could pay off up to 80% of most people’s unpaid rent because of the coronavirus

California is strongly considering doing away with the vaccine tiers, going solely to an age-based distribution starting with 65 and older, and that has some essential workers concerned.

The San Diego Humane Society’s Project Wildlife program will begin a two-week-long virtual Wildlife Baby Shower Monday, encouraging animal lovers to donate gifts to help the many baby wild animals the program helps each spring.

As coronavirus infections continue to rage across California, the state Office of Emergency Services is turning to a system it usually uses during wildfire season to get help where it’s needed. NBC Bay Area’s Sergio Quintana talked with a member of the Alameda County Fire Department who just returned from a two-week deployment at a small hospital i...

Family and friends are devastated after a young mother, sister, and daughter’s life was taken too soon. “We were just praying and hoping that God would cure her and send her back home, but we just kept getting more and more bad news,” said Jacqueline Saldivar, Mayra Saldivar’s sister. Early this month, Mayra Saldivar, 27, was hospitalize...

A federal appeals court has denied a Southern California church’s request to overturn the state’s coronavirus restrictions barring worship services indoors during the coronavirus pandemic.

California will impose statewide guidelines for how wineries dispose of wastewater, ditching a long-held regional approach.

The Chula Vista Police Department issued a search warrant Saturday at the home of a Chula Vista mom who was reported missing at the beginning of the month.

UCSD’s School of Medicine is looking into how COVID-19 vaccines may not only benefit breastfeeding mothers, but also their breastfed infants. The study looks at whether antibodies generated in response to the vaccine are transferred through breastmilk and would protect infants from COVID-19. So far, breastfeeding women have not been included ...

Scientists are finding out more about how the body’s immune system responds to COVID-19. A team of researchers from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI), The University of Liverpool and the University of Southampton conducted a study that suggests people with severe COVID-19 cases may be left with more of the protective T cells needed to fight r...

SDPD is looking for a man accused of stealing equipment from an SDFD fire truck as crews battled a building fire in Ocean Beach.

An Escondido mother says she is living a nightmare now that her entire family is sick with the coronavirus.  Ivon Bazan said her 32-year-old husband was the first in the family to develop symptoms. Soon after she began feeling sick, then her 2-year-old baby developed a fever, and just like that her two other kids, ages 11 and 20, fell…...