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,

Californians visited beaches, parks and hiking trails over the weekend in significant numbers, defying a state-wide order to stay at home. Images of Huntington Beach, southeast of Los Angeles, appeared on social media showing beach-goers gathered along the popular stretch of surfing beach.

El fin de semana trajo una avalancha de gente arrollada y estresada a las playas, parques y senderos del sur de California. Pero el domingo, el público descubrió que una cinta amarilla de precaución cubría una popular cancha de baloncesto en Laguna Beach; muelles en Manhattan Beach y Hermosa Beach bloqueados a los visitantes; canchas de ...

This article originally appeared on the Across California Patch. CALIFORNIA — The state of California needs to add another 50,000 hospital beds to have enough capacity to care f

Elsewhere, the cities of Santa Monica, Long Beach, and Malibu implemented their own specific social-distance-strengthening guidelines and beach closures. San Diego has also closed all beaches, and much of Northern California is under a shelter-in-place ruling that is slightly more strict than its Southern California counterpart. The message is ...

The city of Malibu released a statement explaining why beach parking lots are closed and not the beaches themselves. “The City does not own or operate the County beaches, California State Parks, Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority trails and parks, or the State-owned Malibu Pier and Point Dume Nature Preserve, or National Park ...

During California’s first weekend under a mandatory statewide stay-at-home order ... "Normally that would light up my heart to see tens of thousands of people congregating down at Malibu," he said. "One cannot condemn that, but one can criticize it." The governor said parks officials would also be “significantly increasing” their ...

“Normally that would light up my heart to see tens of thousands of people congregating down in Malibu and other parts of our beautiful state,” he said. “One cannot condemn that, but one can criticize it. We need to practice common sense and socially distance.” Newsom’s announcement came as California added hundreds of more coronavirus ...