Early indications in the Russian River and other North Coast waterways suggest that more salmon are spawning this season. That’s good news for the beleaguered fish, but their troubles are far from over. New threats related to climate change are now beginning to complicate their reproduction, as Joe Rubin reports in the first of this two part series on the state of the Chinook salmon, and the struggles they face swimming upstream into the Sierra foothills.
Recently from California Update
Taking aim at gun ownership another way
A California legislator has pointed the debate over gun control legislation in a whole new direction. Also Governor Brown snipes back at his Texas counterpart.
Good news for the Gov
In the wake of his widely applauded State of the State address last week, Governor Brown gets high marks in a notable new public opinion survey.
Revisiting the Governor's State of the State, plus reaction
A capsule summary of the annual address yesterday, with some comments from state legislators.
Remembering Roe
The debate over abortion reaches back for decades, but this week marks a key anniversary for that issue.





