Governor Gavin Newsom will be heading to Rome next month as one of several state and local officials invited from around the world to speak at the Pope’s Vatican Climate Summit. The governor wi...
Hundreds of San Francisco State University students and faculty set up tents during a rally on Monday. It's the latest Bay Area campus to join a growing national movement.
A new study finds that last year’s snow deluge in California, which quickly erased a two decade long megadrought, was essentially a once-in-a-lifetime rescue from above. Don’t get used to it.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/29/californias-2023-snow-deluge-was-a-freak-event-study-says/
California is partnering with a New Jersey-based pharmaceutical company to purchase a generic version of Narcan, the most well-known version of naloxone that can save a person's life during an op...
Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price plans to ask the Board of Supervisors to declare the recall signature count illegal at its meeting on Tuesday, adding to an already confusing recall ...
Climate Change And Its Impact On State Parks In California As the climate crisis changes California’s landscape, the ecosystems in state parks are threatened. At one point, the people in charge...
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/29/climate-change-forces-state-parks-to-re-think-their-goals/
A federal affordable internet subsidy is going away and 3 million Californians must decide whether to end access largely considered a human right.
View the full episode transcript. In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, Ericka, Maria and Alan talk about Berkeley’s newest (and youngest) District 7 City Council member, allegat...
In this episode of the Sunday Music Drop, the Oakland-based “distortion pop” band Christina's Trip shares their love song "I'll Take It," about liking someone and having a limited amount of t...
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/28/christinas-trip-ill-take-it/
The UCLA report defines 9 rural counties as 'teacher education deserts' and says allowing community colleges to offer K–12 credentials could be a solution.
Alex Padilla is taking practically every opportunity to put his stamp on the Democratic Party’s approach to immigration and pressing his case in face-to-face moments with President Joe Biden.
An ongoing AP investigation has found that the deaths happened over the past decade in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego and cities in Orange and San Bernardino counties.
California now is one of 9 states with regulations limiting health care cost increases. Consumers won’t necessarily notice the changes, but supporters say they will make a difference over time.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/27/california-caps-rising-health-care-costs-heres-how-it-works/
Protests on college campuses over the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza are spreading throughout California. KQED captured images of demonstrations taking place at UC Berkeley and Stanford University.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons abruptly shut down FCI Dublin following years of sexual abuse reports.
A new study shows Santa Clara County awards only a small percentage of its contracts to businesses owned by people from diverse backgrounds.
The new regulations, which go into effect this summer, aim to reduce abuses faced by seasonal foreign farmworkers with H-2A visas. California employers worry the program will become more complex ...
A bill to ban non-disclosure agreements while outside groups negotiate legislation failed in committee, creating some interesting alliances in the process. Meanwhile, a bill to allow licensed doc...
The Department of Emergency Management acknowledged that the current dispatch system is 'end of life.' A new system was expected to be in place by 2023, but it has been delayed for three years to...
After a long legal battle, the ruling makes Alameda County the latest Bay Area local government to increase a tax to fund early childhood education and care.
One of the demands of anti-war protesters on college campuses is for their schools to divest their endowments from companies that are profiting from Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
It’s Youth Takeover week at KQED and we're handing the mic to students from East Oakland's Fremont High School.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/26/youth-takeover-parents-and-teachers-just-dont-understand/
The city’s cameras scan millions of license plates per month and helped recover $2 million in stolen vehicles last year. However, privacy advocates say they don’t help reduce crime.
Central Valley Palestinian Family Leans On Food, Traditions As War Rages On In Gaza Israel’s attacks on Gaza have lasted over 200 days and the devastation can be seen around the world. As the w...
Many Californians are watching this case closely — from politicians, to advocates, to unhoused residents.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/26/how-supreme-court-case-on-homelessness-could-affect-the-bay/
As protests over the war in Gaza roil college campuses from New York to California, Marisa and Scott sit down with UC Regent John Pérez, who has served on the board overseeing the University of ...
The cancellation announcement comes as college officials across the U.S. grow increasingly worried that ongoing protests and arrests on their campuses could disrupt plans for commencement ceremon...
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge this week struck down SB 9, a 2021 California law allowing property owners to split their lots and build up to two new homes.
https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/04/25/judge-rules-california-split-lot-housing-law-unconstitutional/
A state senator says there’s a “hidden homicide” epidemic of killers making domestic violence murders look like suicides or accidents. Her bill would give families a right to seek an indepe...
Applications for the state’s high-demand loan program for first-time home buyers will close on Monday, April 29 at 5 p.m.