KQED's The California Report
KQED's statewide radio news program, providing daily coverage of issues, trends, and public policy decisions affecting California and its diverse population.
Episodes
April 25, 2025 • 11 mins
Skiers cruising down Tahoe’s white slopes this winter had a unique chance to learn about the surrounding ecosystem. UC Davis scientists clicked on their skis and led public tours down the mountain.
Reporter: Anna Guth, KQED
The American Civil Liberties Union has asked a federal court to stop the government from cutting off legal services to families who were forcibly separated at the U.S.-Mexico border during the first Trump adm...
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April 24, 2025 • 11 mins
As the state grapples with the homeless population of over 187,000 people, a new program at Santa Monica Community College is training students for jobs to help people get off the streets and into housing. But it also faces an uncertain future.
Guest: Marisa Kendall, CalMatters
Farmworkers in the U.S. have historically been excluded from overtime pay. That’s no longer the case in California. But on Wednesday, state lawmakers tab...
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April 23, 2025 • 11 mins
A bill aimed at bringing healthcare services directly to farmworker communities will be considered at the state legislature Wednesday.
Immigrant rights groups say more than a dozen people were arrested by immigration officials on Tuesday at a hardware store in Pomona.
Reporter: Anthony Victoria, KVCR
The Trump Administration eliminated deportation protections for asylum seekers who entered the country through the CBP one mobile...
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April 22, 2025 • 11 mins
The death of Pope Francis is being felt around the world. And right here in California, millions of Latino Catholics are mourning not just the loss of a spiritual leader, but someone who, for many, felt like one of their own. Pope Francis was the first from Latin America. He spoke often about immigration, inequality, and the dignity of the poor.
Guest: Jeff Guhin, Sociology Professor, UCLA
Starting this week, Californians can buy...
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April 21, 2025 • 11 mins
The district attorney's office in Shasta County is facing high workloads and high vacancy rates.
Reporter: Roman Battaglia, Jefferson Public Radio
Dry summer conditions have long been known to cause issues for vulnerable fish populations. A recent UC Berkeley study found dry winters can cause issues, too.
Reporter: Manola Secaira, CapRadio
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April 18, 2025 • 11 mins
Imagine that severe storms sent ice balls containing chemical slush raining down onto the ground. While that sounds like science fiction here on earth, researchers at UC Berkeley have discovered, that is science-fact on our solar system's biggest planet--Jupiter.
The U.S. Justice Department has ruled that tech giant Google has been holding an unlawful monopoly over online ads, enabling them to manipulate the market and keep compet...
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April 17, 2025 • 11 mins
It might sound farfetched, but the California Department of Motor Vehicles has a track-record of renewing the licenses of drivers whose dangerous maneuvers behind the wheel have caused deaths on the road.
In Southern California, the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) has decided to move forward with plans to stabilize the coastal highway corridor that links Los Angeles, Orang and San Diego counties. However, the plan is...
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April 16, 2025 • 11 mins
The US wine industry let out a sigh of relief last week when President Trump decided to pause placing 20 percent tariffs on goods from the European Union, which would have included wine. However, the White House's global trade war is creating sour grapes with another major US trading partner--Canada; and that is jeopardizing California's wineries, which usually bank big with our neighbors to the North.
In other tariff news, Govern...
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April 15, 2025 • 11 mins
In 2023, the entertainment world in the US went on strike over production studios' embrace of artificial intelligence, and its potential to replace humans in the every role from actors to directors. While TV and movie studios eventually came to terms with striking workers in Hollywood, a year later, performers in the videogame industry represented by SAG-AFTRA went on strike over a number of reasons, including better working condit...
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April 14, 2025 • 11 mins
The United States is seeing a boom in professional soccer, especially in California. The state is already host to four Major League Soccer teams and three teams in the National Women's Soccer League. There is also a crop of minor league teams sprouting up throughout the state, in both big cities and small towns. We'll take to you to the Southern California city of Lancaster, which hopes to score big with its newest soccer team, AV...
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April 11, 2025 • 11 mins
President Trump says he will not limit the scope of his deportation efforts, going so far as to say schools across the country will also be targeted in sweeps and raids by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents. That looming threat has undocumented students attending UC Berkeley calling on the university to issue a strong statement of support for them.
Santa Clara County's District Attorney is moving forward with pressing cha...
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April 10, 2025 • 11 mins
In early January, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from El Centro near San Diego launched a deportation raid in Kern County, more than six hours from their usual area of operation. The man behind the effort is Gregory Bovino, head of CBP's El Centro sector. He claimed the operation targeted criminals that were illegally in the US, but arrest data show that, of the nearly 80 people that were swept up by the agents out o...
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April 9, 2025 • 11 mins
California is aiming to make the entirety of its electricity production zero-carbon by 2045. One of the key areas that state leaders are looking to help the state reach its clean energy goals is the Mojave Desert. Since 2014, the desert has been home to one of the largest solar power plants in North America. However, California's zero-carbon efforts in the Mojave are coming at the expense of a celebrated natural icon: the Joshua Tr...
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April 8, 2025 • 11 mins
Firefighter aircraft were cheered on back in January, when they were making headlines as they painted the areas being scorched by the Palisades and Eaton Fires in Los Angeles County with fire retardant. However, scientists are starting to wonder whether the contents of these retardants could impact the health or the environment of the people who have to eventually rebuild these communities that were devastated by wildfires.
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April 7, 2025 • 11 mins
A Fresno mobile home park has become ground zero in a fight to save one of the last bastions of affordable housing in California. But residents there are facing an uncertain future as they wait for a federal judge to decide who will take control of the place they call home: another corporate landlord or an affordable housing non-profit.
Reporter: Madi Bolanos, The California Report
Thousands of people in the Bay Area joined prot...
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April 4, 2025 • 11 mins
President Trump's tariffs are sending shockwaves around the world, and across car dealerships here in California, the U.S.'s largest car and truck market. A 25% tariff is being placed on all vehicles imported into the United States, but that tariff also covers car parts that are used to assemble vehicle models associated with "Made in the USA." The tariffs will likely mean higher prices for all kinds of new vehicles.
Guest: Bria...
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April 3, 2025 • 11 mins
In last year’s presidential election, Donald Trump improved on his 2020 performance all across California. Voters in every congressional district in the state shifted toward Trump. But the areas moving most toward Republicans also have a lot to lose from the party’s budget plan in Washington.
Reporter: Guy Marzorati, KQED
Lawmakers are introducing a bill to strengthen existing statewide tenant protections. Some property owners a...
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April 2, 2025 • 11 mins
California's logging industry has been shrinking for years, with an aging workforce and fewer young people entering the trade. But in Northern California, a community college is stepping in to change that, helping to train the next generation of loggers through an innovative apprenticeship program.
Guest: Kate Rix, The Hechinger Report
The California snowpack is close to 100 percent for the third year in a row. That hasn’t happ...
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April 1, 2025 • 11 mins
Major League Baseball is underway and for many fans of the Athletics, it’s a bittersweet season. That’s because the team used to be known as the Oakland Athletics, until they left Oakland last year. The A’s are now set to play at least three seasons in their new home in West Sacramento, while the team prepares for a permanent move to Las Vegas.
Reporter: Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, KQED
Nearly 60,000 workers across the University of C...
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March 31, 2025 • 11 mins
Hundreds of police officers in California have been stripped of their badges in the last few years for serious misconduct. The offenses range from sexual assault to excessive force to racial bias. But thousands of cases still need to be reviewed.
Reporter: Scott Rodd, KPBS
A pair of bills aiming to limit the harms of social media on children will face their first hearing in the California legislature this week.
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