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Three months into California’s battle with the coronavirus, there are growing signs that the outbreak is ebbing even as the state death toll continues to climb past 3,400.While deaths remain a stubborn challenge, other metrics analyzed by the Los Angeles Times show significant progress — enough that even some of the most cautious local health…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.A California mayor is declaring his city a sanctuary for businesses from the state's coronavirus shutdown orders.In an interview on "Fox & Friends," Atwater Mayor Paul Creighton explained that in California there's a "sanctuary city for everything" including drug abuse and rampant homelessness.CLICK HERE…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.More than 60 representatives from organizations in central California and local officials signed a letter to state lawmakers Tuesday asking for a weekly stipend for workers in the state illegally who have lost their jobs due to the coronavirus, according to a…

Santa Clara County, Northern California’s most populous county, will join the rest of the San Francisco Bay Area in moving into Phase 2 of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s reopening plan, allowing for curbside pickup at many retail stores.Health officers in the Bay Area said they have seen a number of positive signs since the last loosening…

A barrage of calls to sign up for the $75 million in aid crashed phone lines. Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for most federal assistance.Jose Deodanes, a day laborer, at a protest in Los Angeles last month called on Gov. Gavin Newsom of California to ensure that undocumented workers and their families received coronavirus-related financial…