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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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October 8, 2025
The family of Susan "Suzie" Smith and REACH Air Medical Services have both confirmed the flight nurse has died of injuries suffered in Monday night's helicopter crash on Highway 50.
September 15, 2025
For years, Sacramento has ranked high on lists of the country’s most rat-infested cities. And if you’ve lived here for a while, you’ve probably seen a few scurrying along powerlines or between park bushes.
September 2, 2025
Governor Gavin Newsom supported the price gouging penalty when he signed it into law in 2023 as a way to stop unnecessary gas price spikes. Now the governor and the energy commission have decided to put it on hold.
August 12, 2025
California’s Western Pond Turtles are the only remaining freshwater turtles native to the state. But their populations face threats from competing non-native species and habitat loss.
August 8, 2025
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, people working in conservation and other environmental fields have seen all sorts of upsets — like pauses in critical funding, rescinded grants, and staffing cuts.
July 22, 2025
De acuerdo con autoridades locales, agentes de la Patrulla Fronteriza detuvieron al menos a nueve individuos el jueves por la mañana durante una redada migratoria fuera de un Home Depot en Florin Road, en el Sur de Sacramento.
July 17, 2025
Border Patrol agents arrested at least nine people at a South Sacramento Home Depot, including a U.S. citizen who was maced while filming. The raid sparked protests and criticism from city leaders and immigrant rights groups.
June 26, 2025
Angela Laws, an endangered species conservation biologist, helps take care of a community-led garden dedicated to attracting pollinators in Sacramento’s South Natomas neighborhood.
June 11, 2025
Gray wolves were absent from California for nearly a century due to hunting and habitat loss. But that changed in the 2010s, when the species began to travel into California from nearby states.
May 27, 2025
It’s not always easy getting the average person obsessed with snakes. But some enthusiasts want to change that — like Michael Starkey, who founded the Sacramento-based conservation nonprofit Save the Snakes.
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