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The ordinance will make it easier for restaurants and retail establishments to receive permits for expanding their operations into nearby parking lots. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe order affects all 30 counties on the state's pandemic monitoring list — including San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange and Riverside counties. -
Single-use plastic shopping bags returned to markets thanks to COVID-19, and they are lingering as trash. -
San Diego County officials are setting aside $17 million in CARES Act dollars to help struggling businesses during the pandemic. It is part of a new small business stimulus program that is now accepting applications. -
KPBS Midday EditionThousands of San Diegans were laid off when restaurants closed for dine-in service at the beginning of the pandemic. Now, with dine-in closures reinstated, more people are expected to be out of work. -
The order issued by San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer comes as COVID-19 cases surge, leading the county to halt indoor dining at restaurants for three weeks. -
Now that indoor dining has once again been suspended, Poway Mayor Steve Vaus is proposing that his city buy picnic tables to loan to restaurants for outdoor dining. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe order applies to 19 counties with a total of 72% of the state's population, including Los Angeles County. The order also applies to the indoor operations of movie theaters, wineries, tasting rooms, family entertainment centers, zoos and museums. -
While the airport has remained open to essential travel during the pandemic, officials said potentially eased restrictions to non-essential travel have led the airport to issue a public notice of its COVID-19 health and safety regulations. -
How wearing a facial covering to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has become a cultural and political dividing line, congress investigates the San Diego VA for discontinuing the use of ketamine treatments for suicidal veterans, and the internal debate within newsrooms over racial representation and diversity in journalism.
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