As California AG Xavier Becerra joins Joe Biden’s cabinet as head of Health and Human Services, locals are looking ahead.

Voters narrowly defeated Proposition 15, the tax measure that aimed to eliminate decades-long protections for commercial properties.

The order pre-empts the state’s stay-at-home order, which Gov. Gavin Newsom formally announced Thursday, as hospitalizations surge.

Local businesses that want to reopen with restrictions have less than a week to file new paperwork with public health officials.

The new increases in cases, hospitalizations and deaths in California ended a downward trend across the state and jolted public officials.