California is scrambling to obtain protective gear for healthcare workers and first ... Local officials had already moved to close parking at the state's best-known beaches in Malibu, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco to curb crowds. Parks in scenic Marin County, north of San Francisco, were closed and access was restricted ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is scrambling to obtain protective gear for healthcare workers and first responders, reaching out worldwide and working with locals to ratchet up production as the

Beach parking lots are also closed in Venice Beach, Santa Monica and Malibu. Times staff writers Phil Willon, Sarah Parvini, Colleen Shalby, Taryn Luna, Luke Money, Rong-Gong Lin II and Christopher Goffard contributed to this report.

Californians are navigating a new reality and finding that “stay at home” isn’t a black-and-white order.

California’s sweeping stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus ... Please stay at home!” the Sheriff’s Office said. Malibu city officials also have received reports of people flocking to beaches and hiking trails, the city said in an update posted to its website. The city pointed out that it did not own or operate county ...

On Monday evening, Governor Newsom ordered closures of many state park beaches and parking lots – primarily in San Diego County and Central California – in an effort to discourage large ... For instance, surfers were still in the lineup at Malibu (watch the live cam here) on Tuesday morning, and that’s one of the beaches on the list.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a shelter in place order directing the state ... Meanwhile, the city of Santa Monica closed its beach parking Sunday to deter people from flocking to the beach. Nearby, the city of Malibu issued additional guidance urging residents to maintain a safe distance if they were heading outside for a hike or ...

A fifth lives below the poverty line. One-third of welfare recipients in the United States live in California. These are statistics of which our moralists in Malibu or Mill Valley either are ignorant, or simply shrug that they don’t care. In a paradoxical way, California would have to become much more impoverished than it is now to seem a far ...

The new study, “California Fires: Building Resilience from the Ashes,” focuses on lessons learned primarily from four fires: 2018′s Camp Fire that devastated the town of Paradise, the Woolsey Fire, which caused widespread evacuations of Malibu and other areas in Southern California, 2017′s Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa, and the Thomas Fire ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — One inmate and five employees in California’s massive prison system have tested positive for coronavirus, leading to increased pressure Monday on corrections officials to begin releasing some of the state’s 123,