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KQED's statewide radio news program, providing daily coverage of issues, trends, and public policy decisions affecting California and its diverse population.
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Federal immigration officials could be setting their sights on Sonoma county. A local supervisor says Department of Homeland Security officials asked in a meeting if the sheriff's office would notify DHS when undocumented immigrants are arrested.
Shandra Back, KRCB
Farmers in wine country have been working at all hours to get their grapes off the vine before they rot. The harvest follows an especially hard season slowed by a cooler summer and made worse by other obstacles including tariffs.
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Thousands of California families rely on in-home daycares for their kids. But after the housing market collapse in 2008, the state lost 30% of these types of child care settings, leading to a crisis. As part of its effort to rebuild, California passed a law in 2019 forbidding landlords and homeowners’ associations from refusing to rent to in-home child care providers. But that hasn’t stopped the practice.
Reporter: Daisy Nguyen, KQED
California is joining 13 others to create an alliance aimed at coordinating public health policy-- a direct rebuke of the Trump Administration.
Reporter: Marisa Lagos, KQED
5.5 million Californians could soon lose their food assistance benefits, if Congress doesn't end the shutdown and approve a budget agreement. That's according to The California Department of Social Services, who oversees the program, CalFresh.
Reporter: Nick Gerda, LAist
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In San Francisco, more people are now ordering Waymo robotaxis than Lyfts with human drivers. People are getting more comfortable using driverless cars. This got us thinking - is the same thing about to happen in LA? And how do human Uber and Lyft drivers feel about it?
Reporter: Megan Jamerson, KCRW
A new state audit released this week finds that California’s public college systems aren’t doing enough to meet the need for student housing.
Reporter: Sara Hossaini, KQED
Downtown Carmel-by-the-Sea has never had street addresses. A recent vote by the city council will change that. The decision comes after multiple town hall meetings and input from residents.
Reporter: Ngozi Cole, KAZU
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A tiny California town in Sacramento’s Delta has struggled for decades, and within a matter of months, could face some big decisions on its status as a city. Financial choices over the years have put Isleton in a sink or swim situation– with talks of disincorporation or bankruptcy and what that could mean for the city’s 800 residents.
Reporter: Riley Palmer, CapRadio
The governor vetoed a handful of bills that aimed to advance reparations for Black Californians.
Reporter: Guy Marzorati , KQED
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The Trump Administration is considering a change to the federal Endangered Species Act that could create new risks for an area in California that has more sea otters than any other in the state.
Last October, the state finished removing four dams from Klamath River up in far Northern California. In the year since the removal, there has been drastic changes to the area's fish population, and overall water quality.
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For many families experiencing homelessness, school can be a difficult hurdle to clear. Chronic absenteeism is higher, and graduation rates are lower among homeless students. But the Fresno Unified School District has been working to combat this problem. And the efforts appear to be working.
Reporter: Rachel Livinal/KVPR
Doctors at Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in Los Angeles County say administrators are allowing federal immigration agents to interfere in medical decisions and block doctors from properly treating detained patients who need emergency care.
Reporter: Jill Replogle/LAist
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When you talk about Altadena, you can’t not talk about its trees. It’s why one young Altadenan is documenting the stories of the community’s trees in the wake of the Eaton Fire.
Reporter: Erin Stone, LAist
A 29-year-old man has been arrested for starting a fire that eventually became the deadly Palisades Fire.
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California made national headlines last month when Governor Newsom signed a bill barring law enforcement officers from wearing masks -- a law aimed at immigration agents. Federal officials say they won’t comply. But
the skirmish is about more than just masks.
Reporter: Marisa Lagos, KQED
New data suggests Fresno is a more prosperous city than it was 12 years ago.
Reporter: Kerry Klein, KVPR
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Almost nine months have passed since the Eaton Fire ripped through Los Angeles County. It destroyed more than 9,000 buildings and left billions of dollars in damages. At first, attention focused on Southern California Edison's transmission lines as the likely cause. But a new NPR investigation shows there may have been other failures, too.
Guest: Chiara Eisner, NPR
Another immigrant has died in the custody of federal immigration authorities in California, this time in the Imperial Valley. New questions are being raised about the care of detainees under the Trump administration’s ongoing mass deportation campaign.
Reporter: Kori Suzuki, KPBS
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When President Donald Trump signed his sweeping policy bill this summer, it included $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, known here as Medi-Cal. The program is recognized for helping low-income people access health care, but it also funds services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Now, many Californians with disabilities face an uncertain future.
Reporter: Izzy Bloom, KQED
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops from California to Oregon.
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The 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise remains California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire in history. The Northern California fire claimed the lives of 85 people. Now, a new movie depicts the real-life heroic escape of one local bus driver.
Reporter: Claudia Brancart, North State Public Radio
Yosemite National Park remains open during the government shutdown, but there won't be many rangers there to help visitors.
Reporter: Carly Severn, KQED
The US Department of Education is ending several grant programs that support minority-serving institutions. Department officials say these programs are discriminatory. California stands to lose more grant money than any other state - for programs that support Black, Latino, Asian and Native American students on college campuses.
Reporter: Adam Echelman, CalMatters
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During the last federal government shutdown in late 2018 and early 2019, national parks here in California were greatly impacted. Some shut down completely, meaning a significant loss in potential revenue. Others remained open, but were not fully staffed. That includes Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. Vehicles drove off-road, causing major damage to sensitive areas, and trash piled up, scattered around the park. The hope is things will be different this time around.
Guest: Kenji Haroutunian, Executive Director, friends of Joshua Tree
Santa Clara County prosecutors have secured a grand jury indictment against 11 pro-Palestinian Stanford University protestors who barricaded themselves in the campus president’s office in 2024.
Reporter: Joseph Geha, KQED
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Around the Salton Sea, dust storms have become an increasing problem, sparking dozens of public health studies. But many Imperial Valley residents have grown weary of repeated studies that all basically say the same thing: that the air quality is bad and getting worse.
Reporter: Kori Suzuki, KPBS
National Parks are once again caught up in the middle of the federal government shutdown. During the last shutdown – for more than 30 days in 2018 and 2019 - parks that remained open were unstaffed, leading to widespread vandalism and environmental damage. There’s growing concern that an extended shutdown could once again put at serious risk of damage.
Reporter: Sarah Wright, KQED
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What once was a fire season in California is now a fire year. As a result, the state is looking to combat increasing wildfires with funding for more year-round firefighters.
Reporter: Rachel Livinal, KVPR
California voters approved a $10 billion climate bond measure, last November. We're now getting a sense of where the first round of Prop 4 money is going.
Reporter: Manola Secaira, CapRadio
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In Marin County, rents are among the highest in the nation. There, a group of mobile home park residents are in a years-long fight to keep hold of one of the county’s few affordable options. They’re residents of the RV Park of San Rafael, where a property management company has been raising the rent, setting new rules and threatening residents with eviction.
Reporter: Madi Bolaños, The California Report
The Trump administration has expanded its investigation of alleged antisemitism on college campuses to the California State University system.
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This week a SpaceX Falcon9 rocket launched from Florida – the mission? To study the outermost parts of the earth’s atmosphere. The mission is being steered by remote control from UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory. Reporter: Danielle Venton, KQED
A report out this week details major failures in LA County’s response to the January firestorms.
Reporter: Jacob Margolis, LAist
Immigration agents arrested three day laborers outside of a well-known worker center in Pomona Thursday morning. Immigration advocates say they’re worried about the health and safety of the people now being detained.
Reporter: Anthony Victoria, KVCR
A Southern California attorney is facing a historic fine for filing a state court appeal full of fake quotations generated by the artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT.
Reporter: Khari Johnson, CalMatters
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Healthcare workers across Southern California are struggling to provide medical care to undocumented patients, without clear guidance on how to handle encounters with immigration agents. Medical workers want hospitals to improve guidelines and provide better training so they can protect patients and themselves.
Reporter: Anthony Victoria, KVCR
A federal court hearing on whether or not roving immigration patrols can continue in the Los Angeles area has been postponed.
Reporter: Wendy Fry, CalMatters
A nearly seven mile stretch of Highway 1 near Big Sur will remain closed this winter, three years after back to back landslides wrecked the roadway. But things could improve in the spring.
Reporter: Robert Garrova, LAist
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As concerns continue to grow over ICE detention and enforcement in California, the agency is also ramping up its hiring efforts, as it aims to bring on 10,000 new agents by the end of the year. But some experts say the agency’s recruitment strategy is filled with white nationalist messages and imagery.
Reporter: Gustavo Solis, KPBS
After months of delays and refinement, supervisors in Shasta County, which has for years been at the center of election integrity debates, have approved funding for new changes to the county’s voting system.
Reporter: Roman Battaglia, Jefferson Public Radio
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Did you know, if your car gets towed in California and sold because you didn’t claim it, you’re entitled to the profit? And if you don’t claim your money, the DMV gets to keep it.
Reporter: Byrhonda Lyons, CalMatters
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered the Trump administration to restore 500 National Institutes of Health grants that it suspended at UCLA over the summer.
Reporter: Mikhail Zinshteyn, CalMatters
The Tulare County Public Defender’s Office has agreed to overhaul an alleged culture of sexual harassment among employees, under the terms of a deal announced Monday.
Reporter: Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED
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Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new law lowering state cannabis taxes from 19% to 15%. Pot companies say it will bring much needed relief to an overtaxed, overregulated industry. But youth groups who are funded by this tax say kids are being betrayed.
Reporter: April Dembosky, KQED
Governor Gavin Newsom signed a series of bills into law on Saturday, aimed at reigning in aggressive immigration enforcement in the state.
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barely a minute of this is about the SoCal strikes. Why is that subject your headline?
wow that is scary looking pic
So, no episode for 10/5/2021?
Vandalism may be a minor crime to you, but it can be devastating to those who work paycheck to paycheck. So what if the cops are able to see anything on public streets. Don’t commit crimes and you won’t have a problem.