KVMR News

Syd Brown sits on the board of the Sierra Gold Parks Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports park-related educational activities and helps to preserve the natural and cultural resources of western Nevada County’s State Parks. You can find out more at SierraGoldParksFoundation.org .

The California Report shares what may be in store for Los Angeles county if the number of patients entering area hospitals due to COVID-19 continues to climb before covering how new tax breaks aim to bolster California’s wilting cannabis industry. The California News Service gets the reactions of Mono County residents after a state appellate court reversed a judge’s ruling that limited the drainin...

WorldFest is back, this year bringing headliners Old Crow Medicine Show to the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Felton Pruitt spoke with the Executive Director of The Center for the Arts, Amber Jo Manuel to get the details.  

For about a week, two immigrant detainees have been held 22 hours a day in a windowless 6 by 12 ft room in Bakersfield. The California Report takes us inside the for-profit private facility, investigating the disputed cause of this punishing solitary confinement. After a look at local news and weather, Climate Report host, Martin Webb, speaks with a member of the local chapter of the Sunrise Movem...

Molly Fisk writes, coaches, and teaches writing in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.

Get ready to commit a new emergency number to memory. 988 is what you’ll dial for the mental health national hotline. Tonight’s California Report has the details on the latest component in the emergency response arsenal. We take a look at local news and weather before Felton Pruitt walks us through Nevada County’s Homeless Action Plan with Director of Housing and Community, Mike Dent. We close wit...

KVMR’s Felton Pruitt walks through Nevada County’s Homeless Action Plan with Director of Housing and Community, Mike Dent.

The California Report covers the Electra Fire currently burning in Amador and Calaveras counties, Joyce Miller shares a story about how a Grass Valley woman who recovered her stolen bicycle with help from a good samaritan, and Marc Cuniberti shares his thoughts on Bitcoin.

Joyce Miller shares a story about how a Grass Valley woman recovered her stolen bicycle with help from a good samaritan. 

Fifty years after the Apollo program, NASA plans to return to the Moon to establish a regular human presence there. The California Report explores the role of California companies and engineers in that effort. National Native News reports on Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland’s “The Road to Healing” tour. Al Stahler talks fire and we close with a commentary from Chaplain Norris Burkes.

Pascale from Yubanet.com joins Steve Baker on Fourth of July morning for an update about the Rices Fire Incident.

Listen to the Cal Fire morning briefing for the Rices Fire on July 3rd, 2022. Audio courtesy of Yubanet.com

Pascale Fusshoeller from Yubanet.com joins Steve Baker again for another morning update about the Rices Fire.

At the press conference Cal Fire's Nevada Yuba Placer Unit Deputy Chief, Jim Hudson, shared that the size and percentage of the fire has not changed. It’s holding at 904 acres and still only 12% contained. The good news of the evening came from Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Captain, Sam Brown, who shared that the decision was made to downgrade ZoneHaven Zone NCO-E383 from an evacuation order to a...

Jim Hudson, deputy chief of the Cal Fire Nevada Yuba Placer Unit, Nevada County Sheriff’s Office Captain, Sam Brown, and Yuba County Undersheriff, Nicholas Morawcznski shared updates about the Rices Fire. At the time of this press conference, the fire had burned 904 acres and was 12% contained. 

KVMR News Director, Cláudio Mendonça talks with Nevada County Sheriff's Office Public Information Officer, Andrew Trygg for the final Rices Fire update of the evening. 

Cláudio Mendonça checks in with NCSO Public Information Officer, Andrew Trygg, about the Rices Fire which is currently estimated to be 900 acres and 0% contained.

Pascale Fusshoeller from Yubanet.com  joins Steve Baker for a Rices Fire Update.

NCSO Public Information Officer, Andrew Trygg returns to KVMR for another update about Rices Fire. 

At 6 pm, KVMR spoke with NCSO’s Public Information Officer, Andrew Trygg to get the latest details about the Rices Fire currently burning in the Bridgeport area in Nevada County. 

The California Report shares some of the sounds from an abortion rights rally in Los Angeles, a reaction from a protester who received an abortion after a sexual assault, and asks the question: what comes next, politically? National Native News brings us reactions to the historic decision from Native women, and we close with coverage about the abortion rights protests at the State Capital from Hei...