Health

In today's newscast, a new state website called SprayDays lets people see when and where farmers plan to apply pesticides. And Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a new satellite program to monitor and reduce dangerous methane leaks.

Western wildfires pose a much broader threat to human health than to just those forced to evacuate the path of the blazes. Smoke from these fires, which have burned millions of acres in California alone, is choking vast swaths of the country, an analysis of federal satellite imagery by NPR’s California Newsroom and Stanford University’s Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab found.

There are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Cruz or Monterey counties, but local health officials are still preparing. Twelve counties in California…

$105.8-million. That’s how much a single donor is giving local, non-profit Montage Health. The money will create a new youth mental health program and…

The California Department of Public Health released a new set of guidelines on cell phone use and radiation risk — revisiting a years-long debate about…