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Manola Secaira is CapRadio’s environment and climate change reporter. Before that, she worked for Crosscut in Seattle as an Indigenous Affairs reporter.
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April 14, 2025
The shooting happened about a mile from campus on the day of UC Davis’s annual Picnic Day, which attracts thousands of students and community members.
April 11, 2025
A law passed in 2022 required producers of plastic foam foodware to demonstrate a recycling rate of 25% by 2025 to continue using the material. Since they didn’t meet that target, CalRecycle says these producers are banned from using it.
April 8, 2025
Kristyn Schulte, a ringtail biologist with Sacramento City College, is working to better understand where the chronically-understudied animal lives in California.
March 25, 2025
The species can only be found in parts of Northern and Central California. It was hit hard by the West Nile Virus in the mid-2000s, but a local survey conducted over the last few years shows it may be starting to recover.
February 26, 2025
Experts have found that water flushed from rice fields is rich with zooplankton, which is a main source of food for young salmon.
February 3, 2025
The Tribal EcoRestoration Alliance, or TERA, is a Lake County-based group dedicated to changing attitudes around intentional fire and sharing knowledge with a new generation of burners.
January 28, 2025
Radclyffe’s owner, Caroline Sailor, says she wants the new space to be more representative of Sacramento’s local queer community.
January 27, 2025
For years, the same pair of eagles have laid their eggs at a nest by Lake Natoma in Folsom. Locals often gather along a pathway by Snowberry Way, right next to the water, to see the eagle couple at their nest from around February to June.
January 1, 2025
We took a look at a few laws going into effect on Jan. 1 that could impact your year, from new rules for active shooter drills in schools to how prosecutors charge theft-related crimes and changes to how you’re charged junk and overdraft fees.
December 10, 2024
We’re already seen our first big storm of the season: An atmospheric river in late November broke local records in the Sacramento area. And on Nov. 22, Downtown Sacramento reported two inches of rainfall.
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