The California governor’s budget is coming out Thursday, and it will include millions of dollars for women and children. CapRadio’s Sammy Caiola has the details Governor Gavin Newsom was flanked by stacked boxes of diapers and tampons. He wants to eliminate the sales tax on both items, to make life a little easier for parents, especially women. “Yes I’m a feminist, a proud feminist” He took the podium with his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, and acknowledged her contributions to his work and their

This edition of KVC-Arts is devoted solely to Eva and the Vagabond Tales, and their new album "Uncharted Ocean." The album will have release shows in LA on May 15th and Riverside on the 25th. More at evaandthevagabondtales.com. David Fleming speaks with Eva about the album as a whole, the artwork, and a bit on process as well - this was the first time Eva and the Vagabond Tales worked with an outside producer... and to wonderful effect.

Last year's wildfire season set records for death and destruction in California. Bob Moffitt with Capital Public Radio reports on the state's preparations for the 2019 fire season. Cal Fire has a list of 35 projects it hopes to complete in advance of the coming fire season. Many are along what firefighters call the wildland urban interface. Thom Porter is the new director of Cal Fire and says conditions are changing rapidly at lower levels. "Sea level up to about 2,000 feet, we're already seeing

More than a million species are at risk of extinction globally. That's what the United Nations revealed yesterday [Monday]. Capital Public Radio’s Ezra David Romero reports around 300 species are at risk in California. A handful of plants and animals have already disappeared from the state like the Santa Barbara song sparrow. About a dozen are currently at risk of extinction says Dan Applebee with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. [APPLEBEE] "There's some species nobody's seen in

Longtime Inland Empire journalist and KVCR contributor Cassie MacDuff and KVCR's Ken Vincent review some of the Inland Empire's top news stories this week, including: 1. The San Bernardino City Manager's job is on the line, since she was put on paid leavea month ago. 2. A manager at the Loma Linda VA medical clinic served 22 years for a gangland-style slaying. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP, PUBLISHER OF THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE , SAN BERNARDINO SUN , INLAND

The Trump administration has cut off all communication and cooperation with the California High-Speed Rail Authority — including freezing all environmental review, engineering and safety work dating back to last year. As Capital Public Radio’s Ben Adler reports, the state says that’s putting the already embattled project at risk of further delays and cost increases. The Trump administration started working behind the scenes to derail the project long before the president criticized it following

The conversation about where people can legally use marijuana has landed on the doorsteps of hospitals with a new bill that could let terminally ill patients use the drug from their deathbeds. Capital Public Radio’s health care reporter Sammy Caiola [kay-OH-luh] has more In his final weeks with pancreatic cancer, 42-year-old Ryan Bartell couldn’t do much but sleep. The hospital-issued painkillers just knocked him out. So he started using marijuana for relief. His father Jim Bartell says it was a

Join us for sketches, stories, and songs about science, recorded at The Tudor House Theatre. April Hava Shenkman returns with her vocal gymnastics, and L.A. duo Aloud perform their passionate acoustic pop tunes.

This week on Lifestyles, with the reboot of the TV series Twilight Zone, Lillian speaks with Author and Screenwriter Marc Zicree. He’ll talk about Rod Serling, the original host of Twilight Zone, the new series, and Marc’s passion for the industry. For more information about Marc Zicree, you can visit For more information about the summer camps and programs mentioned in today's show, you can visit these websites: IE Waterkeeper Rivercamp 2019 Kids That Code Camp Skyland Ranch IE Accelerator Kids

The United States has the largest prison population in the world. And a big part of that is re-offenders. One way to get those numbers down is to give people on paroll the tools they need to function in society. In San Bernardino, there is a promising effort to do just that. Here's NPR's Elissa Nadworny.