California

A group of 11 state senators from both sides of the aisle, including several Southland lawmakers, are asking Gov. Gavin Newsom to move restaurants into the “essential” category and permit them to reopen statewide, despite the current public health lockdown.

Vaccinations against COVID-19 have begun in California amid a huge surge in infections and hospitalizations

Manhattan Beach resident and real estate agent Greg Geilman became ill back in mid-March. Now recovered from the coronavirus, he considers himself quite lucky that he didn’t end up hospitalized or on a ventilator. Annette Arreola reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has had a rough year. The next one might be even tougher as a recall effort appears to be gaining momentum, fueled partly by outrage over the first-term Democrat dining with friends at an opulent restaurant while telling state residents to spurn social gatherings and stay home. It’s not uncommon in California for residents to...

NBC4’S Conan Nolan and Chuck Todd of NBC’s Meet the Press talk about the long-awaited COVID-19 relief package being negotiated in Washington DC. What is holding up? Why can’t the congressional leaders agree on the bailout?   

Covered California enrollment doubled up in the first six months of the pandemic. Peter Lee, Executive Director of Covered California, talks about the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on California’s Healthcare Insurance marketplace, and he explains why the deadline to apply for the program has been extended to Dec. 30. Conan Nolan and Yvonne Guevara report for the NBC4 News...

Los Angeles County again broke a record for coronavirus hospitalizations this weekend as San Francisco County reported the highest number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began

Robert Garcia remembers watching on television as then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom ordered the county to issue same-sex marriage licenses in 2004. A young gay man in his 20s at the time, Garcia called it a “light switch” that ignited his passion for public service. Now, Garcia, 43, mayor of Long Beach, California, is one of four people Newsom, now…

California’s attorney general has told the owners of two strip clubs to follow orders because he said they are violating the state’s new stay-at-home policy, which bars social gatherings in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus

California public health officials say the number of available intensive care unit beds in the vast San Joaquin Valley has dropped to zero for the first time Saturday

Oracle is the latest tech company to relocate from California to Austin, Texas.

California health officials are urging the state’s residents to stay home as much as possible because of a coronavirus surge taxing the state’s hospitals.

While access to COVID-19 testing proved to be somewhat easier for the wealthy and well connected, experts say vaccine availability will be tightly controlled and difficult for ineligible recipients to obtain.

Most didn’t get to say goodbye to their loved ones face-to-face, losing family members at a rapid and unexpected pace to a deadly and unseen virus. These are their stories.

The state’s unemployment system has been plagued with fraud, costing taxpayers billions of dollars, but on top of that, some California residents who need the unemployment money the most can’t get it. The collective billions of dollars in fraud prompted the state and Bank of America to freeze hundreds of thousands of suspicious accounts. The problem: legitimate accounts were inadvertently...

Relatives of a Covina couple killed during a police pursuit sued two cities and the state Wednesday, alleging the negligent actions of three police agencies and the driver they were trying to pull over led to the deaths.

California is rolling out a voluntary smartphone tool to alert people if they were near someone who tested positive for coronavirus.

The California non-profit Nurtured by Nature is not only making a difference for the animals in its care but also for young Make-A-Wish recipients, like Reagan McBride. LX News host Tabitha Lipkin visited the program outside San Diego to get an up close look at its otter program, which is a special source of joy for these young people.

A new mobile app allows Californians to receive alerts about possible coronavirus exposure. Mekahlo Medina reports for Today in LA on Thursday Dec. 10, 2020.

The state unemployment system has been plagued with fraud and is costing taxpayers billions of dollars. Randy Mac reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020.