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Felton Pruitt talks with Mike Shea a volunteer with MineWatch , a group that opposes the reopening of the Idaho-Maryland Mine.

The strike at the Chevron refinery in Richmond may give yet another goose to gas prices. The California Report investigates the case of a Cambodian immigrant who fled genocide as a child. He was paralyzed in a prison accident and won parole after serving a term for murder. But now, he’s fighting deportation to a country he barely knows. After regional news and weather, KVMR’s Paul Emery talks wate...

KVMR's Paul Emery talks to hydrologist Steve Baker about groundwater management and all of the baggage that can come with water projects. 

Tonight on the California Report: The state is getting nervous. There’s growing concern over the shortage of firefighters as peak fire season approaches. In National Native News, Manitoba’s top First Nations leader faces sexual assault allegations. And a new PBS documentary focusing on the epidemic of missing and murdered indigenous women premieres tonight. We look at local news and weather before...

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 .

Up ahead on The California Report: Addressing the high cost of gasoline. A look at different proposals floating around the state’s capital. And health departments still can’t catch their breath - the latest on the omicron sub-variant making up a quarter of new COVID cases in the United States. We’ll check in on local news and weather before we hear from Science correspondent, Al Stahler. Then Felt...

Felton Pruitt gets the latest from the festival's general manager, Bix Beeman.

Ahead on the California Report: Lawmakers try to give drivers relief at the fuel pump, with some suggesting a suspension of the gas tax. An anticipated new spike in Covid cases isn’t showing up in the state’s wastewater -- yet. Advocates for disabled people want to bring back the mask mandate. And, the Port of Los Angeles is reporting its best February ever. After regional news and weather, Nevada...

Two large apartment projects are taking shape in our county. One in the Brunswick area, the other in Nevada City. Cláudio Mendonça talks to Nevada County's, Mike Dent, about how these developments will expand the options for local housing.

The San Francisco Police Department is in last place when compared to other large cities in the state according to a report published by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal justice, they spend more but arrest less. And the Del Norte Sheriff in northern California has announced he’s resigning. This comes after he was charged with felony voter fraud and lying on election paperwork after he knowing l...

KVMR’s Felton Pruitt spoke with Nevada City Mayor Duane Strawser to get the latest about the Nevada County Court house.

Some firefighters and forestry experts are not happy about a bill introduced this month by Congressmen Doug LaMalfa and Tom McClintock. The two Republicans want the Forest Service to be more aggressive in attacking new fires. Fire experts says the bill flies in the face of forest science, and politicizes wildfires. After regional news and weather, all eyes are on the economy as the Federal Reserve...

Whatever happened to Prop 7?  Up ahead, the debacle over Daylight Savings. And community health clinics are floundering. They've yet to be reimbursed for their efforts in vaccinating hundreds of thousands of low-income Californians. A look at what went wrong - coming up on The California Report. Our local fire departments aren’t the only ones using cultural burning to prepare for peak fire season....

Before there was California, this was the land of the Nisenan.  Al Stahler spoke with Tanis Thorne and Hank Meals, authors of a new book:  Nevada City Nisenan .

The state’s top conservation official warns that California is barreling full steam ahead into its third year of drought. The California Report also shares that more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees are estimated to have fled their country. We’ll take a look at regional news and weather before we hear from Nevada County’s Deputy Public Health Officer, Dr. Glennah Trochet, on the arrival of the ne...

BA.2, a descendant of the Omicron variant has officially been identified in Nevada County. Nevada County Deputy Public Health Officer, Dr. Glennah Trochet, answers Cláudio Mendonça's questions. 

Felton Pruitt chats with Todd Sheaffer of Railroad Earth.