Santa Cruz County sending masks to local health care workers
In an effort to help health care workers responding to the coronavirus pandemic, Santa Cruz County will be sending tens of thousands of masks for…
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City of Salinas requests delay of homeless camp cleanups
The City of Salinas has decided to delay a homeless camp cleanup scheduled for…
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Number of Santa Cruz County coronavirus cases up to 23
The County of Santa Cruz announced Sunday that there are 17 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Cruz…
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Eviction moratorium considered in Watsonville during coronavirus outbreak
Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order that allows local governments to halt evictions during the COVID-19 outbreak.…
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Three California state prison employees test positive for COVID-19
Three employees at California state prisons have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the California Department of Corrections and…
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Family mourns loss of Monterey County man diagnosed with COVID-19
Alfonzo Collazo spoke with KION from his home in San Francisco, Sunday. While abiding by Governor Gavin Newsom’s order, he is miles away from family…
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Another case of COVID-19 confirmed in San Benito County
San Benito County officials confirmed another case of COVID-19 Sunday, bringing the total to three active cases within the…
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Residents adapt to state-wide order to stay home
Empty streets and locked doors are now the new normal across California.…
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Hospitality industry takes hit as state is ordered to stay home
Hotels, spas, restaurants and other businesses are closing their doors as concern over the spread of Coronavirus continue to grow.…
Continue Reading First Monterey County COVID-19 death reported
The Monterey County Health Department announced the first death of a Monterey County resident from COVID-19.…
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8th coronavirus case confirmed in Monterey County
The Monterey County Health Department has confirmed that an eighth case of COVID-19 has been confirmed in Monterey County.…
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7th coronavirus case confirmed in Monterey County
A fifth person has tested positive for coronavirus in Monterey County, according to a report from the…
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Monterey County agencies release advisory for agricultural worker protection during coronavirus outbreak
Several Monterey County agencies have come together to endorse a model advisory for agricultural worker protections during the coronavirus…
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Pinnacles closes West side due to COVID-19
Paicines, Calif. (KION) Beginning Friday, Pinnacles National Park is closing the West half of the park, due to COVID-19. The National Park Service…
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Monterey County asks Newsom to keep supplies coming
SALINAS, Calif. (KION) Many store shelves sit empty, as essential supplies are quickly snatched up during this period of “shelter-in-place” and…
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Governor Newsom deploys California National Guard for COVID-19 help
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KION) California Governor Gavin Newsom is deploying the California National Guard to help the state during the COVID-19 pandemic,…
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Seeing price gouging on the Central Coast? Here’s how to report it
We’ve heard about price gouging happening on the Central Coast, but we wanted to see if it’s true, so we sent KION anchor Mary Coleman to some of the…
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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.…
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Monterey County Health Department removes end date from Shelter in Place order to align with state
The Monterey County Health Department has reissued its Shelter in Place order, and it has removed the end date of April…
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Gilroy Garlic Festival postponed until 2021
Organizers of the Gilroy Garlic Festival said the event will be postponed until July 2021 due to the coronavirus…
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Video court returns to Monterey County Jail
The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office announced that it has reinstated video court at the county…
Continue Reading Santa Cruz County reports 15 coronavirus cases
The County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency said that as of Tuesday morning, there are 13 coronavirus cases in the…
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SVMHS sets up coronavirus hotline
The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System has set up a hotline for community members and staff at local physician…
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City of Santa Cruz allows extra bag of trash to reduce contamination
The City of Santa Cruz is allowing residents to put out an extra bag of trash for no extra…
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Secretary of State confirms restricted travel order to Canada and Mexico
(CNN) https://livestream.com/accounts/25723746/events/8522569/videos/203212173 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo confirmed reports that the US has…
Continue Reading Newsom issues statewide “stay at home” order
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP and KION) In an major announcement Thursday night, California governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide order for people to…
Continue Reading New resources in Santa Cruz County to guide through COVID-19
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION) Santa Cruz County is adding more resources for their community to help people navigate through life under the COVID-19…
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Panetta: More help is coming with small business aid and direct checks
SALINAS, Calif. (KION) “I think we all know it’s going to get worse before it gets better,” Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) tells KION.…
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Silver linings while you’re sheltering in place
It’s understandably a scary time for a lot of people being forced into their homes as social distancing is becoming the new norm, for now. But…
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Shelter-in-place enforced in Monterey County
Law enforcement are upping patrol now that a “shelter in place” has been issued for Monterey…
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Gilroy woman shares story of her father’s COVID-19 death
A Gilroy woman is speaking out to share the story of her father, Gary Young, who died of COVID-19 complications just weeks after experiencing a bad…
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Food bank and school district team up in Marina and Seaside Friday
MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. On Friday March 20, The Food Bank for Monterey County and the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District are hoping to give a…
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Diocese of Monterey working to move Mass to livestream
The Diocese of Monterey said that it will be suspending all public masses and working to make Mass available in a livestream…
Continue Reading Governor Newsom estimates more than 50% of Californians will be infected with coronavirus
Governor Gavin Newsom has sent a letter to President Trump requesting that he deploys the USNS Mercy Hospital Ship to the port of Los…
Continue Reading Number of coronavirus cases in Monterey County up to 4
The Monterey County Health Department confirms that two more coronavirus cases have been reported in Monterey…
Continue Reading Cardinale Volkswagen Mazda employee claims to test positive for coronavirus
A Salinas car dealership has reached out to news media saying an employee told the dealership that they tested positive for…
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.…
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Santa Cruz county rolls out “Quick Response Vehicles” for COVID-19
To prepare for possible increased call demand due to COVID-19, Santa Cruz county emergency medical service providers are testing out quick response…
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 Trump says antimalarial will soon be available to treat coronavirus
WASHINGTON (CNN) https://livestream.com/accounts/25723746/events/8522569/videos/203164018 President Trump says he’s pushed the Food and Drug…
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Small businesses suffer on first day of Monterey County’s shelter-in-place order
MONTEREY, Calif. (KION) Restaurants on the peninsula are struggling under Monterey County’s shelter-in-place order. Some owners, including John…
Continue Reading New visitor policies at Central Coast medical centers due to coronavirus concerns
The Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System announced that it is putting new policies in place for visitation due to…
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…
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Farm workers still on the job during shelter in place
Farm workers are still out in the fields despite a shelter in place order in effect in Monterey…
Continue Reading First coronavirus death in San Benito County
SAN BENITO COUNTY, Calif. (KION) UPDATED 3/18/20: A man in his 60s is the first to die from COVID-19 in San Benito County, according to the county…
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Students adjust to learning from home during school closures
Delia Gonzalez and her son, Jonathon, are adjusting to a “new…
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.…
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