Coronavirus

California’s overwhelmed hospitals are setting up makeshift extra beds for coronavirus patients, and a handful of facilities in hard-hit Los Angeles County are drawing up emergency plans in case they have to limit how many people receive life-saving care.

Governor Gavin Newsom said California's first shipment should arrive early this week.

Hockey is set to return Jan. 13 after the NHL and players completed a deal Sunday to hold a 56-game season that would include playoffs lasting into July to award the Stanley Cup.

As the coronavirus spread throughout the U.S., bigotry toward Asian Americans was not far behind, fueled by the news that COVID-19 first appeared in China.

On Hawaii's rural island of Kauai, local residents spent the first seven months of the pandemic sheltered from the viral storm.

More than 1 million people have passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints in each of the past two days in a sign that public health pleas to avoid holiday travel are being ignored.

Some of America’s political leaders have been caught preaching one thing on the coronavirus and practicing another.

Major League Baseball payrolls plunged to $1.75 billion during the pandemic-shortened season from $4.22 billion. That's nearly $2.5B less.

With less than a week until Christmas, Cupertino-based Apple quietly closed all of their retail stores in California as coronavirus cases and hospitalizations continue to surge.

Facing a budget shortfall of $62 million, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf announced measures to avoid a fiscal crisis that include 10-day furloughs and delayed raises for senior staffers.

An arcane battle over emergency Federal Reserve powers is frustrating efforts to lock down an agreement on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package.

A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.