Authorities intercepted a woman using this drug kit in preparation for shooting up a mix of heroin and fentanyl inside a Walmart bathroom last month in Manchester, N.H. Fentanyl offers a particularly potent high but also can shut down breathing in under a minute. Credit: Salwan Georges/Washington Post/Getty Images/via CapRadioThough the spike in fentanyl death rates has largely affected the Northeast, the trend is starting to worry health experts in California, who are already taking precautions to reduce overdoses.
Story by Sammy Caiola.
Credit: ollesvensson / FlickrYou might double check the brand before you slice into an avocado. Some California-grown avocados are being recalled.
Story by Ezra David Romero.
Snow falls as John King of the Department of Water Resources, crosses a meadow while conducting the third manual snow survey of the season at the Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo / via CapRadioStorms this week are expected to bring rain and snow to a large portion of California. Monday's could drop more than a quarter of an inch of rain at low elevations and up to a foot of snow in the mountains.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli/APFamilies of those killed by inmates now on death row have harshly criticized Gov. Newsom’s halt to the death penalty. We spoke with the mother of a police officer about her sense of betrayal.
Story by Chris Nichols.
A firefighter runs while trying to save a home as a wildfire tears through Lakeport, Calif. on Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Credit: AP Photo / Noah Berger / via CapRadioGov. Newsom proclaimed a statewide emergency on wildfires Friday. The plan expedites forest-thinning projects and other ways to reduce threats. It comes after Cal Fire recommended this type of work at 35 locations with benefits for 200 communities.
Story by Ezra David Romero.
Credit: Chris NicholsThe state added just under 15,000 jobs in February after adding around 6,000 in January. The average monthly gain last year reached nearly 25,000.
Story by Ben Adler.
Monday, March 25, 2019
Credit: Art Siegel / Flickr / via CapRadioTwo hundred and nine million pounds of pesticides were applied to Californian fields in 2016. Under state law, local Agricultural Commissioners must consider safer alternatives to highly toxic pesticides. But they're not according to a new UCLA study.
Story by Julia Mitric.
People wait at counters at the DMV in Fullerton, Calif. Credit: Micah Sittig / Flickr / via CapRadioA new law allows people to choose an “X” in the gender section instead of a male or female marking.
Story by Sammy Caiola.
IRS Form 1040. Credit: Wikimedia CommonsWith Tax Day coming up, the Franchise Tax Board is reminding California taxpayers that their state and federal returns might be more different this year than in years past. That's because there are major changes to federal law but not state law.
Story by Ben Adler.
Friday, March 22, 2019
Gov. Gavin Newsom, center, discusses the homeless problem facing California after a meeting with the mayors of some of the state's largest cities held at the governor's office. Credit: Ben Adler / Capital Public RadioGovernor Gavin Newsom is endorsing a call from the mayors of California’s largest cities for more money to address the state’s homelessness crisis.
Story by Ben Adler.
Female mountain lion, P-19, taken in February 2015. Credit: National Park Service / Courtesy / via CapRadioTwo separate mountain lion populations in Southern California could go extinct within 50 years. Two isolated Southern California lion populations are at risk. It’s not that the populations are too small, it’s a genetic diversity problem.
Story by Ezra David Romero.
Snow falls as John King of the Department of Water Resources, crosses a meadow while conducting the third manual snow survey of the season at the Phillips Station near Echo Summit, Calif. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / AP Photo / via CapRadio
Recent storms have allowed the California Department of Water Resources to release more water from the State Water Project.
Story by Drew Sandsor.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Waterbirds take flight over a large wetland area along the Pacific Flyway. Photo courtesy of Clayton AndersonMillions of waterbirds stop in wetlands across the Central Valley every spring. They're taking a break as they migrate south along the Pacific Flyway. But new research shows a grim future for many of these species.
Story by Ezra David Romero.
Despite a veto two years ago by former Governor Jerry Brown, a Democratic lawmaker is back with his bill that would require presidential candidates to release their tax returns to appear on California’s primary ballot.
Story by Ben Adler.
California Supreme Court chief justice Tani Cantil_Sakauye. Credit: Rich Pedroncelli / AP / File / via CapRadioTani Cantil-Sakauye says fines and fees should “no longer fall on those least able to afford them” and that minor traffic offenses shouldn’t “turn poor drivers into poor criminals.”
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