KVMR News

National Screen-Free Week is May 6th through May 12th. 

Nitrous oxide abusers are showing up in emergency rooms with symptoms resembling multiple sclerosis. 

The plaque at the corner of American Hill Road and Drummond Street in Nevada City celebrates two of Nevada County’s Black pioneers. 

The Friday Night Ceilidh marks the kick-off of the KVMR Celtic Festival, and who better to explain what’s to come than KVMR’s very own Annie O’Dea Hestbeck. She sits down with Summer McCall, Colin Cotter, and Ryan McKasson, the trio leading the event. KVMR’s Al Stahler speaks to the creator of four never-before seen films focusing on the Giant Sequoias, Ananda’s tulips, Coastal Redwoods and a myth...

Mentalhealthmattersnc.com  is a clearinghouse for information and resources related to mental and emotional well-being. 

PG&E is asking hikers and pilots to stay out of the zone for their safety and so as not to disrupt work. 

This week students at Sacramento State joined demonstrators across the country by pitching tents near the school’s library and occupying the quad. 

$8.4 million from a Community Resilience Centers Implementation Grant will pay for much needed repairs to the Nevada City and Grass Valley veterans halls.

Snow chains damaged I-80, Borland Ave closes until June, Nevada County seeks input about proposed road junction. 

New GDP data was recently published and former Federal Reserve Economist Gary Zimmerman joins KVMR’s Paul Emery to decipher what this means for us non-former Fed folks. The countdown to the KVMR Celtic Festival is on!  This year the music and cultural celebration takes place May 3rd through May 5th. KVMR News Director Cláudio Mendonça sits down with Celtic Festival Event Producer, Production Assis...

The countdown to the KVMR Celtic Festival is on! For two and half decades the annual event had been held during the fall but this year the music and cultural celebrations take place May 3rd through May 5th. KVMR News Director Cláudio Mendonça sits down with Celtic Festival Event Producer, Production Assistant, and Children’s Area Manager to find out more about the date change, what to expect at th...

Youth New Corps reporter, Kennedy Lyman dives into Northern California's recent measles cases, as well as the community's immunization records. To emphasize the importance of the measles vaccine, Kennedy talked to the Nevada County Public Health Officer, Dr. Sherilynn Cooke, as well as the Principal and Secretary of Grizzly Hill Elementary School. 

This year NCSO is reaching out to more remote areas of Nevada County. 

Lou Conter died on April 1st and was given full military honors at his funeral on Tuesday at St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery in Grass Valley. 

Youth News Reporter Gabby Gerster gets to know more about life inside the first panaderia in Nevada County, Panaderia Matilija, that recently opened on York Street in downtown Nevada City. Owner and Bay Area local Stephanie Gogobachi touches on her journey up to the mountains, her experience in the first month of opening, and her plans to further the outreach of the panaderia.

The project will reduce fuel loading on national forest land northwest of Lake Tahoe, protecting thousands of homes and a crucial source of water for the region.

This week hydrogeologist Steve Baker talks PFAS, Chromium 6, and brings us an update on NID's water conveyance issues. Science correspondent Al Stahler takes a look at a chemical element we hold very dear in a special Earth Day edition of Al Explores. Marc Cuniberti's Money Matters explores the connection between markets and presidential elections. Shirley Freriks brings us a commentary about how...

Repairs continue on critical parts of NID water conveyance system. 

On Tuesday, April 9th, at a special joint City Council and Historical Commission meeting, the decision was made to preserve the Historical Commission.

Nevada County Sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers arrested a man after finding two loaded revolvers in the car he was riding in. 

CAL FIRE aircraft currently based at McClellan Air Force Base are training above northern California. 

The Felix Gillet Institute is working with Yosemite National Park to preserve its rare apple varieties.

This week we bring you a particularly poetic news magazine. KVMR correspondent Al Stahler takes a detour from the science world to explore the realm of arts.  He sits down with prolific writer and poet Sands Hall to discuss the medium in anticipation of this weekend’s Sierra Poetry Festival. Bringing us squarely back to the reality of capitalism, Former Federal Reserve Economist Gary Zimmerman joi...

This week on the KVMR News Magazine we hear the latest in Water News with hydrogeologist Steve Baker, Al Stahler brings us a piece about how memory works, Marc Cuniberti talks gold and bitcoin, and we close with an essay by Molly Fisk about Partial Totality.

Project Wild Edges – Breathe in Sky, the third exhibition connected to Art in Public Spaces , is at the Eric Rood Administrative Center in Nevada City though June 27th.