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Terese Brunner cuts Mitch Schrage’s hair at home while barber shops remain closed in the area on April 15, at their home in New Holstein, Wis. Schrage occasionally gets his haircut at a barbershop and usually has Brunner trim his hair in-between visits.

Channels’ photographer shows life under quarantine in Wisconsin

May 1, 2020

Owner of Blue Ridge Honey Greg Mitchell has seen sales go up as the local farmers market has remained open throughout the state-wide business closures on Tuesday April 21, 2020 in Downtown Santa Barbara, Calif.

Farmers market still bustling, lively despite new COVID-19 guidelines

April 27, 2020

Peter and Naomi Pavia in homemade masks stitched by Naomi on Tuesday, April 21 in Downtown Santa Barbara, Calif. Naomi Stitches masks to donate to friends, neighbors and nursing homes while Peter thinks the virus is exaggerated, but wears a mask to be courteous to others.

Masked: The rise of custom masks and the Santa Barbara residents using them

April 27, 2020

Illustration by Kai Zheng

I saw a tiger, and the tiger saw a man: The rise and fall of Joe Exotic

April 17, 2020

Mary Orr waves during a visit with her friend Eileen Carlson through a window of the Villa Alamar Retirement Community. Carlson is a resident at Villa Alamar and is allowed to communicate with friends and family on the phone through the window under house policy. Photo courtesy of Luciana Mitzkun Weston.

Providing care in assisted living home difficult during quarantine

April 13, 2020

Beach goers stand gazing out over an empty West Beach near Stearns Wharf, one of the few citizens out due to statewide shelter-in-place orders brought on by the novel coronavirus.

Sheltering in place: A look at life in SB after COVID-19

April 10, 2020

Homeless people in Santa Barbara have been forced out of common day use facilities like public libraries, coffee shops and restaurants as businesses comply with social distance practices leaving less resources for displaced citizens.

SB homeless population healthy, at heightened risk amidst crisis

April 3, 2020

Global carbon emissions and pollution have decreased as a result of measures taken by countries around the world to combat COVID_19 through business closures, social distancing and a large majority of the population staying inside.

Pandemic and shelter order leads to decrease in ozone emissions

April 3, 2020

Photo of the van den Broek family provided by Valerie van den Broek.

COVID-19 has left me marooned and homesick in a foreign country

March 31, 2020

Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-section through the viral genome, seen as black dots.

City College student tests positive for coronavirus, under quarantine

March 19, 2020

The Friendship Plaza at City College on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, in Santa Barbara, Calif.

First confirmed COVID-19 case in county, City College closes campus

March 15, 2020

MTD workers clean and disinfect a city bus after hours. An additional team has been brought in to aid with the sterilization. Photo courtesy of Hillary Blackerby, MTD.

MTD takes additional precautions in response to COVID-19 concerns

March 13, 2020

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