January 25, 2022 | Janelle Salanga
Workers, regardless of immigration status, are protected by California labor laws. Here’s what to know about those protections and available benefits at this stage of the pandemic.
January 25, 2022
The Los Angeles Unified School District said it’ll prohibit students from wearing cloth masks as the highly transmissible omicron variant continues to spread.
January 24, 2022 | Chris Nichols
The federally funded Point-In-Time count usually takes place every two years, but was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. About 500 volunteers are needed this year.
January 24, 2022
About 11,500 long-term care center workers are now sick with COVID. “It’s been like one coworker after another, after another, everyone getting sick,” one nursing assistant said.
January 24, 2022 | Nicole Nixon
Jones, who has spent more than three decades with the sheriff’s department, says he will be a “law and order candidate” who “will put the safety of America and Americans first again.”
January 24, 2022 | Ed Fletcher
CapRadio’s Ed Fletcher interviewed Bohyun Bahng, a scientist with the National Tsunami Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska, and Michael Poland, a USGS geophysicist with Yellowstone Volcano Observatory.
January 23, 2022
In the past week, the Biden administration launched two programs that aim to get rapid covid tests into the hands of every American. But the design of both efforts disadvantages people who already face the greatest barriers to testing.
January 23, 2022
The 112-square-mile Randall Preserve — a gateway between LA and the San Joaquin Valley — provides a haven for wildlife and a living laboratory for scientists.
January 22, 2022
Essential workers say they are bearing the brunt of the pandemic again but this time, there is less government support. Economists say jobs in California’s low-wage sectors could take longer to recover.
January 22, 2022
In a parallel problem to patient ‘dumping,’ many poor nursing home residents find themselves stuck inside facilities and unable to return home.
January 22, 2022
The phone number — 1-800-232-0233 — follows the launch earlier this week of a federal website to order the tests.
January 22, 2022 | Vicki Gonzalez
Chico State is one of the few campuses in the California State University system reopening for mostly in-person classes. President Gayle Hutchinson believes they can safely hold most classes and that the school is prepared for anything.
January 22, 2022
Those living in the Big Sur area were told to evacuate from their homes due to a wildfire that began late Friday, officials said. A wind advisory had been issued in the Bay Area.
January 21, 2022 | Randol White
The sampling of human waste and other methods for tracking the spread of COVID-19 show an encouraging trend, but hospitalizations are reaching record levels and health care workers are struggling to keep up.
January 21, 2022 | Chris Nichols
Councilmember Mai Vang plans to hold community listening sessions to help determine the best use of the South Sacramento property. Early ideas include adding a new park.
January 21, 2022 | Nicole Nixon
Bills would expand access to abortion, strengthen patient privacy measures and make the procedure more affordable for both residents and non-Californians.
January 20, 2022 | Nicole Nixon
Lawmakers in the Sacramento region largely avoided intra-party fights, but some face tougher re-election fights while others eye new opportunities.
January 19, 2022
The omicron variant of COVID-19 has hit California’s teacher workforce so hard that many schools are weighing closure and in some cases forced to dip into emergency days.
January 19, 2022 | Manola Secaira
In Blodgett Forest, researchers grapple with the state’s forest-management history while investigating what it means to have a healthy one.
January 18, 2022
UFW membership has been down for years, so low that UC Merced researchers declared farmworker union membership statistically zero for 2020.
Today on Insight, we're looking at SCUSD Equity Officers, how climate change will impact the San Joaquin Valley and the B Street Theatre Co-Founder retires.
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Health
January 25, 2022
Some retailers are starting to get the first wave of the 400 million free masks being distributed by the federal government. Every person is allowed to receive up to three masks.
Technology
January 25, 2022
A judge granted a restraining order against a woman who allegedly showed up twice to Cook's home in Palo Alto. The filing states she also threatened Cook with photos of a handgun.
WBHM-FM | National
January 25, 2022
Blocking the new congressional map from taking effect, a panel of judges says Alabama needs at least two, not one, congressional districts in which Black voters are the majority, or close to it.
National
January 25, 2022
The Coast Guard said the missing appear to have been part of a "suspected human smuggling venture" that took off from Bimini, Bahamas, a small island roughly 55 miles east of Miami.
Law
January 25, 2022
The allegations overshadowed Moore's 2017 campaign as he fell in a stunning defeat to Doug Jones, the first Alabama Democrat elected to the Senate in 25 years.
Climate
January 25, 2022
The case brought by Baltimore is one of more than 20 similar lawsuits nationwide that seek to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in climate change.
National
January 25, 2022
Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott called it a "gut wrenching tragedy" for the city, the fire department and the firefighters' families.
Shots - Health News
January 25, 2022
So far the government has distributed about 300,000 doses of Evusheld, a new drug that protects against COVID-19. Some 7 million Americans could benefit from the drug right away.
