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Tonight the California Report looks into gun control enforcement. Despite its restrictive gun control laws, California has widely been failing to disarm domestic abusers. A new bill looks to include Native American history and culture in California school curriculum to increase knowledge about California tribes and their impacts. National Native News has the details. After a California News report...

Omicron is here just in time for the holiday season; the coronavirus variant has been detected in Los Angeles. And the California Report brings us the second part of yesterday’s investigation into failures to protect farmworkers exposed to wildfire smoke. We take a brief look at local entertainment news and weather, before Felton Pruitt closes out our newscast, speaking with 15-time Grammy winning...

Felton Pruitt speaks with 15-time Grammy winning banjo player, Béla Fleck.

Now that it’s in California, what will the Omicron variant portend? The California Report looks for clues. An investigation finds that protections from smoke exposure for the estimated 4 million Californians who work outdoors are rarely enforced. Plus, employees in our state are using their new leverage to organize. After regional news and weather, Bravehearts continues its deep dive into 211 Conn...

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

Today the The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Although our state has some of the nation’s most liberal abortion laws, that doesn’t mean that the procedure is easy to get, particularly in rural communities. Today on the California Report, KQED’s Katie Orr explores some of the challenges women in those areas face. After regional he...

Victorian Christmas returns to Nevada City this year complete with a shuttle service from the Rood center to the bottom of Broad street. Nevada City Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Stuart Baker gives Felton Pruitt the details.

If you intend to apply to the University of California for next fall, you’ve got about six hours left—more coming up on the California Report. If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, California could see a three thousand percent surge in people flocking here for care. The state is preparing by identifying barriers to abortion. We end our newscast with ruminations on inflation from Gary Zimmerm...

Paul Emery and Gary Zimmerman talk inflation.

   In February, the Biden administration began winding down the former President’s controversial Remain in Mexico program. Today’s California Report looks at what’s being done now that a Texas judge has ordered that government officials restart the program. And National Native News looks at the making of a new documentary entitled, Remaining Native, that follows the story of a U.S. Indian boarding...

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.

Tonight the California Report details the breakdown in the global supply chain and how it’s affecting everything from mom and pop restaurants to the medical industry’s catheter and syringe stock. After a brief look at local entertainment news and weather, Felton Pruitt closes out our newscast by speaking with Paul Emery, producer of KVMR’s new holiday music CD.

Felton Pruitt talks to Paul Emery about the new KVMR Holiday CD, Just For Yule.

The California report explains how a recent uptick in "smash-and-grab" crime is pushing law enforcement in many California jurisdictions to cooperate in order to bring those involved to justice. And, despite more and more development, there are still places in the Golden State where one can experience a starry night free from light pollution. One such place is in the Mojave Desert where it is so d...

A mega mothership in Grass Valley? No, not the flying kind. Felton Pruitt talks to Viv Tipton, Executive Director of Hospice of the Foothills about the non-profit’s new store.

Two days before Thanksgiving, the California Report serves up some tips on safely gathering with family, some of whom you might be meeting for the very first time. Plus, we have an update to a story earlier this week on the coming closure of the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. After regional news and weather, Paul Emery talks to hydrologist Steve Baker about the tools and money California has at hand...

Paul Emery talks to hydrologist Steve Baker about the tools and money California has at hand to help it weather the driest two-year stretch in history.