San Joaquin Valley

He watched as a big, mangy deer burst through the tree line, glorious even though it was emaciated.  It was the first deer K.C. had seen in 10 years.

Heralding hope for businesses to reopen and normal services to resume, the California Department of Public Health, or CDPH, ended the regional stay-at-home order across the state Monday.

The California Future Health Workforce Commission announced 10 priority recommendations at a press conference yesterday to build and support a sufficient health care workforce for California’s increasing, aging and diversifying population.

California researchers have discovered four legless lizard species, raising the total number of known legless lizard species from one to five. Researchers discovered that the specimen they were studying were actually legless lizards, not snakes, because the specimen were able lose their tails in the presence of predators and close their eyes, characteristics not displayed by snakes.