Fire season this year in California is expected to be more active than average. Experts with the National Interagency Fire Center say the state's wet winter is to blame. If it seems like the annual forecast is always for a bad fire season — Capital Public Radio's Randol White says ... you're right! Each May the predictions start rolling in: Californians need to brace for another tougher-than-average fire year. Fire Center meteorologist Bryan Henry says there's a good reason for that. He says

California Congressman Eric Swalwell qualified this week for the Democratic presidential primary debates. Cap Radio’s PolitiFact reporter Chris Nichols has this profile of the under-the-radar candidate for president. The 38-year-old Swalwell isn’t the biggest name in the 2020 race. He’s not even the best known Californian running. That title belongs to Senator Kamala Harris. But this millennial father of two young children has taken one of the strongest stances on gun control among the 20

California Governor Gavin Newsom is creating a new commission to study the future of work … and prepare the state for fundamental economic changes such as automation. As Capital Public Radio’s Ben Adler reports, Newsom made the announcement yesterday at a community college in Sacramento. Newsom: “All right, don’t you guys judge me here…” (0:03) How many governors does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, apparently, but Gavin Newsom struggled to change a pair of long, narrow fluorescent

Authorities say the 19-year-old man accused of killing one person and wounding three others in a San Diego County synagogue last weekend is also believed to be involved in a fire at another local synagogue. Meanwhile, a new analysis shows that anti-semitic attacks are up across the nation. NPR's Amy Held has more.

As a biggest measles outbreak in years spreads across the U.S., both Los Angeles County and Orange County have documented new cases of measles. More from KVCR's Ken Vincent.

Organic food isn't served in most California school districts...because it costs more. But a bill moving through the legislature would launch a pilot to help schools buy organic food. Capital Public Radio's Julia Mitric has more. School districts would get 15 cents of additional funding per meal to buy organic produce, dairy and meat from California. Right now, districts have about $1.25 to spend on each school meal, including labor costs. That's a rough estimate from the Natural Resources

Most of the craft beer made in th Inland Empire and elsewhere in California is brewed with ingredients shipped from other states or countries. But now, the California craft brew industry is working with scientists at U.C. Davis to change that. Capital Public Radio's Randol White has more. U.S. craft brewers have official guidelines for more than 150 styles of beer, and California brewers have a countless number of interpretations. But at the base of all those is a very limited number of

On the heels of Saturday’s deadly shooting at a synagogue in San Diego County, Governor Gavin Newsom wants to triple state funding to help protect non-profits that might be the targets of hate-motivated violence. Katie Orr filed this story for the California Report.

The idea of phasing out California's 25-thousand polluting diesel school buses will have to wait another year before it could become law in California. Capital Public Radio’s Ezra David Romero reports. There are very few electric school buses in the state and diesel school buses emit around 5.3 million tons of greenhouse gases ever year nationally. San Francisco Assemblyman David Chiu's bill to help begin to phase them out was recently tabled until 2020 for revision. Chiu's reason for authoring

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: A proposal to close three San Bernardino library branches is opposed by city library trustees. Warehouse plans are provoking opposition in both Riverside and San Bernardino counties. THIS SEGMENT IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NEWS GROUP, PUBLISHER OF THE PRESS-ENTERPRISE , SAN BERNARDINO SUN , INLAND VALLEY DAILY