Steve Milne
Morning Edition Anchor & Reporter
Steve Milne is the Morning Edition anchor at Capital Public Radio. He's also an award-winning reporter whose work has been heard on NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered as well as Marketplace and The Voice of America.
Milne is a Capital Public Radio veteran. He started as a college intern in the mid 1980s and has been a perennial voice ever since.
While Milne's always had his foot in News, he's also played a big role in CPR's music programming. Milne hosted jazz airshifts for many years and even had a long-running, and popular, Saturday evening program called Global Beat that ended in 2003. It was around that time that he became All Things Considered host. In February of 2009 he moved to Morning Edition.
Sacramento County has new wildfire smoke response plan
September 26, 2022
The plan was required by a new state law authored by Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento). He said he wrote the legislation after the Sacramento region was inundated with smoke from nearby fires in 2018, causing confusion in response from public agencies.
Heat wave hits Northern California — here’s how to stay safe and cool
September 2, 2022
Temperatures in the Sacramento area will be well above 100 degrees through Wednesday, potentially hitting highs above 110 on Monday and Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Flex Alert extended through Monday for California as heat wave hits the west coast
August 31, 2022
The state’s grid operator is asking residents to conserve energy Friday, Saturday, and Sunday between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.
California bill would limit foreign-grown food in public school meals
August 30, 2022
Lawmakers advance the Buy American Food Act, which would require public schools to purchase domestically-grown agricultural products for student meals
Potentially dangerous heat anticipated in Northern California through Labor Day weekend
August 29, 2022
Unseasonably warm weather is predicted for this week with forecasters warning people to be alert to heat-related illness and increased fire weather.
Cosmetics giant Sephora to pay California $1.2 million in consumer privacy settlement
August 25, 2022
It's the first significant settlement under the state's recently enacted California Consumer Privacy Act, which gives consumers more control over the personal information businesses collect about them.
Sacramento agency gets $2.7 million to support broadband in rural California counties
August 24, 2022
Some of the money from President Biden's nearly $2 trillion American Rescue Plan will be used to close the digital divide in California.
Out-of-state transgender kids seeking gender-affirming care would find protection in California under proposed law
August 5, 2022
Senate Bill 107 passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee this week by a 12-to-4 vote. It heads next to the Assembly.
Sales tax increase will go in front of Elk Grove voters this November
July 28, 2022
The Elk Grove City Council voted Wednesday to put a 1 cent proposed sales tax increase on the ballot. Officials say it could generate an estimated $21 million a year. But several residents opposed it.
City of Davis giving away free gun locks, part of plan to curb accidental firearm deaths
July 25, 2022
The City Council recently approved a new ordinance that will require gun owners to secure firearms with locking devices and store them in containers at home and in vehicles.