First News
Sonoma County news stories featuring the latest in breaking news, county government, elections, environment, cultural happenings, and updates on your communities, from Petaluma to Cloverdale, and from Sonoma to Bodega Bay, and everyplace in between.
The 707
FLY Brother
Take off with the FLY BROTHER RADIO SHOW, featuring storyteller Ernest White II. In each engaging episode, Ernest talks with his guests about how travel has transformed their lives, and how it can transform yours. Let's fly!
OutBeat News in Depth
Outbeat News In Depth is a news magazine style radio show featuring a closer look at the people, events, and issues impacting the LGBT community in the California North Bay and beyond. Each show features two to four stories including the Outbeat Youth segment. The stories come from our local community and from around the country. Outbeat News in Depth takes a closer look at stories featured in weekly Outbeat News segments with the goal of keeping listeners informed of the important people, issues, and events affecting LGBT people.
NorCal Ballot Box
Gain insights on ballot measures and listen to interviews with candidates participating in your upcoming elections. The NorCal Ballot Box Podcast features a range of election-related stories, reports on the results and analyzes their implications for the forthcoming elections. Our newsroom is dedicated to providing you with comprehensive information to empower you in making informed choices with your vote.
Chronic Catastrophe
Chronic Catastrophe is a four-episode podcast about the impacts of cumulative climate change-induced disasters on our minds, bodies and spirits. Ultimately, we ask the question: Is it worth the risk to our mental and physical health, and to our psyches, to continue to live in a place where disaster is unrelenting?
Over the past four years, Sonoma County has seen a 100-year flood, a historic drought and six major wildfires that have killed 114 people, destroyed more than 18,000 buildings, caused more than half the county to evacuate their homes, and subjected us to months of bad air days and routine power shut-offs.
A Novel Idea
Non-fiction to pulp fiction, host and producer Suzanne M. Lang explore the world of books featuring conversations with writers, academics, and readers. It’s a novel idea.
Wonderland Radio Hour
Wonderland Radio Hour is a quarterly series of free public programs featuring stories about the people, places and history of our lower Russian River communities, from Forestville to Jenner-by-the-Sea. Each hour will showcase musicians, artists, writers and characters from the Lower Russian River Area and surrounding region. WRH is dedicated to introducing and appreciating the wide and diverse talents of our residents; from the well known to those whose abilities deserve greater recognition.
Living Downstream
Northern California Public Media presents Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast, produced in association with the NPR One mobile app. Living Downstream explores environmental justice in communities from California to Indonesia and is hosted by NCPM News Director Steve Mencher. The podcast features some of the most experienced environmental reporters in the public radio system, as well as a handful of talented newcomers.
For the Wild
An anthology of the Anthropocene; focused on land based protection, co-liberation and intersectional storytelling rooted in a paradigm shift from human supremacy towards deep ecology.
Savoring Sonoma
Savoring Sonoma: The Hour is about the many beautiful, delicious, significant, and memorable elements of Sonoma County that not only enrich our lives and our community, but the world in general.
Ear to the Wild
KRCB is proud to partner with Jack Hines, environmental advocate and soundscape ecologist, to present sounds of nature in the North Bay through his award winning radio program, Ear to the Wild! Listen for Chinook salmon swimming to spawn, birds at dawn at Ledson Marsh, and Pacific Tree Frogs. These soundscapes are created to make you stop - listen … and start your own conversations.
Bioneers
The Bioneers: Revolution from the Heart of Nature is an award-winning series featuring breakthrough solutions for people and planet.The greatest social and scientific innovators of our time celebrate the genius of nature and human ingenuity. The kaleidoscopic scope covers biomimicry, ecological design, social and racial justice, women's leadership, ecological medicine, indigenous knowledge, spirituality and psychology. It's leading-edge, hopeful, charismatic, provocative, timely and timeless – like nothing you've heard before.