Dinosaur drive-thru event in Salinas
SALINAS, Calif. (KION) The Jurassic Empire is calling all dinosaur lovers in Salinas! They will be holding a dinosaur drive-thru…
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“Zoom Boom:” A growing trend in considering plastic surgery during the pandemic
ATHERTON, Calif. (KION and KPIX) If the stress and chaos from last year makes you feel like you aged 10 years, you are not alone! More people are…
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Sharing Your Confinement: Central Coasters Coming Together
Recording and keeping record of what life is like now in this time is important, to remember these days in hopes of appreciating more deeply the life…
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Free mask giveaway quickly depletes in Salinas
SALINAS, Calif. (KION) A giveaway frenzy in Salinas on Friday shows just how much masks are in demand right now amid the COVID-19 pandemic affecting…
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Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History launches online programming
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History is launching a series of online programming entitled “Museum to You” amid the coronavirus pandemic.…
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CDC recommends wearing face masks; make your own
MONTEREY, Calif. (KION) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control is recommending that people across the nation wear a face cover. All unused N-95 masks…
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Special Education Students impacted by Stay-at-Home order.
Special Education Students impacted by Stay-at-Home…
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Create a “germ zone” in your home
First things first, pick an entrance where everyone in your household is going to use and stick with it.…
Continue Reading Experiencing Confinement for the Long Haul
So we must brace for the long haul, get down to the basics of life and prepare to take things day by day. That means spending time with your family,…
Continue Reading Confinement: Keep On Moving (The Right Way)
And if I may reach out to my fellow millennials, stay at home! Don’t be partying it up at a friend’s house thinking it’ll all be OK for you. The…
Continue Reading Confinement After UK: Nearly There
The average time it takes for symptoms to show up is usually 5-6 days, and we are well clear of that timeframe by now. …
Continue Reading Confinement: How to Keep Your Mental Health in Good Shape
I’ve been getting used to being at home and working on my desk with my laptop, trying to make sense of all the news and numbers that come up every…
Continue Reading Under Confinement: Californians See History Unfold
What we’re seeing now, for many of us, is nothing short of amazing. Bars, restaurants, businesses of all stripes all impacted and many closed.…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: The Start of a Whirlwind Journey
We didn’t realize that the COVID-19 pandemic would soon impact us in a very upfront way in England.…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: Crowds at London tourist hotspots undeterred
Crowds at the world-famous Buckingham Palace, the residency of the British monarch in London, kept coming even with news of the spreading coronavirus…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: London Pharmacies Taking a Hit
While the situation in London wasn’t nearly as bad as it was in other major European cities (there were fewer than 200 reported cases of COVID-19 in…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: Sports Impacts at London’s Arsenal FC
I got a chance to visit the fairly new Emirates Stadium in North London during my trip. I was excited to see it, but of course, because of the…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: Middle of the Night Panic
We had been packed and ready to go to Paris by train in the morning. So we all slept fairly early to be prepared. But things didn’t turn out like we…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: A Visit to the US Embassy in London
My friends and I were worried about things moving rapidly now, perhaps the UK (where we were staying) would be next. So we traveled to the US Embassy…
Continue Reading Containment for All: Central Coast residents get the order
It’s Wednesday morning, and Central Coast residents collectively woke up to a new order of things.…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: Cancellations to Paris Are Attempted
My friends and I had already booked train tickets, hotels and tour bookings in Paris in advance and we were scrambling to try and cancel all of…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: All Quiet on the U.K. Front
Things felt pretty normal there compared to here on the Central Coast: buses and trains were still open, people were walking about their business and…
Continue Reading Josh Kristianto Vlog: Coming back home from London in empty flight
I flew British Airways in economy class. It was for the most part empty! Each passenger flying got their own rows to sit at.…
Continue Reading Containment From the Get-go: Returning from the UK
SALINAS, Calif. (KION) SCREECH!! The loud thud of our British Airways plane hitting the runway at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport…
Continue Reading Life Under Confinement: KION’s Josh Kristianto shares his experience
KION reporter Josh Kristianto traveled to the United Kingdom last week and shared his experiences that involved being abroad during a pandemic.…
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