By Lauren Hepler, CalMatters Beaches and bars were just the beginning. California Gov. Gavin Newsom today ordered indoor portions of restaurants, entertainment centers, museums and other businesses in counties with growing coronavirus outbreaks to shut down for at least three weeks. As the Fourth of July weekend approaches, the indoor facilities must close in 19 “watch list” counties that are home to 72% of the state’s population. Under the state order, restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms,…

By Ricardo Cano, CalMatters July 1, 2020 California’s new budget provides enough funding for schools to pivot to hybrid learning when they reopen this fall. But school officials fear Sacramento’s decision to delay cuts could throw districts into the fiscal abyss later. The $202 billion budget Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Monday largely keeps intact funding for California’s public schools, capping a turbulent couple months of budget negotiations. Initially, schools were in line to receive a steady increase in funding when the governor introduced his January…

Wednesday, July 8 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The "bomb cyclone" that swept across the Great Plains in March 2019 became, in its cost and scope, the worst natural disaster in Nebraska's history. The documentary And the Floods Came lays out a one-of-a-kind narrative of this fast-moving…

We provide local news updates on The North Bay Report Tuesday-Friday at 6:45, 8:45 a.m., and 5:30 p.m. on KRCB radio 91 and 90.9. Here's our North Bay Report episode for Thursday, July 2. Subscribe to The North Bay Report podcast to listen on the go. 35-year old La'Marcus McDonald is suing the…