Kaiser Begins Phase 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Trial in Northern California (Aired: August 28, 2020)
Northern California residents can now join the efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Kaiser Permanente began recruiting participants for an advancedc...
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The North Bay Report is a daily in-depth look at an issue, event, person or activity in our region, prepared by KRCB News Director Bruce Robinson, a veteran journalist who has been covering Sonoma County since 1985. These reports provide another view of news and events in our area, a way to look beyond the headlines and hear directly from the people who are shaping the present and future of Sonoma County and northern California. Topics recently covered on The North Bay Report include the regional real estate market, offshore oil drilling on the Sonoma Coast, school testing, local theater projects, homelessness, affordable health care, women’s history, protecting the Tiger Salamander, and interviews with foreign exchange students, combating invasive weeds, the proposed Living Wage ordinance in Petaluma, grade school gardening projects, quarrels over gravel quarries in the west county, and election season political issues. The North Bay Report is heard Monday through Friday at 6:18 am and 8:18 am, repeating at 5:30 pm, on KRCB FM, 91.1 & 90.9 FM, and radio.krcb.org.
Crew Shortage Reveals California’s Reliance on Incarcerated Firefighters (Aired: August 27, 2020)
California’s efforts to fight destructive fires across the state were hampered this year by an unexpected circumstance. Coronavirus precautions made ...
Timely Film Tells Story of Napa, Sonoma Essential Workers (Aired: August 26, 2020)
In a film now available on the web and through KQED’s series Truly, CA, Eva Rendle explores the aftermath of the 2017 Wine Country Fires, and their im...
Farmworkers Risk Hazardous Air to Continue the Harvest (Aired: August 25, 2020)
The LNU Lightning Complex Fires broke out in Napa and Sonoma Counties during this year’s peak grape harvest season. Reports are now surfacing that vin...
Board of Supervisors Rejects County Sheriff’s Request to Fund Legal Services (Aired: August 14, 2020)
Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick requested $50,000 from the Board of Supervisors on Wednesday for legal services. Essick intended to explore the lega...
Community Action Partnership Hosts Discussion on Law Enforcement Accountability (Aired: August 13, 2020)
We’re in the midst of a national debate about law enforcement oversight and accountability. That was the subject of this week’s edition of the virtual...
CEO Discusses Racism and Starting a Sonoma County Business (Aired: August 11, 2020)
Every Monday, the Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County hosts a community conversation on race. On July 27, the conversation focused on the ex...
Local High Schoolers Are Finalists in NPR Podcast Contest (Aired: August 6, 2020)
Back for its second year, the NPR Student Podcast Challenge wrapped up in June. Among two thousand entries in grades 5 thru twelve, the story of Popo ...
School Re-Openings Around the County (Aired: August 5, 2020)
Our friends at Sonoma West publishers are a unique local resource. For years, they produced newspapers that reflected life in the towns of Cloverdale,...
Sonoma County Report Finds Santa Rosa Police Violated Protesters’ Rights – Part Two (Aired: August 4, 2020)
On Friday we spoke with D’mitra Smith, the chair of the Sonoma County Human Rights Commission. The commission recently released a report on human righ...