Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. Newsletter The stories shaping California Get up to speed with our Essential California newsletter, sent six days a week. The surge is taking shape as California slogs into a third pandemic summer with far fewer hospitalizations and deaths but still significant disruptions. Despite a state law, more than half of California community colleges have refused to drop dead-end remedial courses. The Dixie fire — the second-largest wildfire in California history — decimated the town of about 1,000 people.

Source: Los Angeles Times June 04, 2022 16:37 UTC