It may not be the only solution, but Nevada City believes making biochar could be one way to safely reduce the local fuel load. Learn more on the city's website.

Cynthia Levesque and Abby Richards have organized a place where local queer youth can go to that isn't home, school or work. 

That's what the thousands of people who gathered in Folsom to Hear AOC and Bernie Sanders speak saw when they looked up. A small plane circled the event numerous times pulling a banner with the phrase written in large red letters. 

Thousands gathered on the Folsom Lake College athletic track in Folsom, Calif. to hear Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders speak on Tuesday, April 15th. 

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• 00:00: Jane Kim - State Director of the California Working Families Party.
• 08:24: Lorena Gonzalez - President of the California Federation of Labor Unions.
• 16:51: Everett Kelley - National President of the American Federation of Government Employees.
• 26:54: Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 14th district.
• 56:07: Bernie Sanders - United States Senator from Vermont.

The two elected officials are coming to Northern California after a talk in Bakersfield as part of Sanders' “Fighting Oligarchy Tour” which began in February.

The Monte Vista Pavement Rehabilitation Project is expected to be completed by summer 2028.

After the regional weather forecast KVMR’s Paul Emery sits down with retired Federal Reserve economist Gary Zimmerman to talk trade wars and the risk of recession on this week’s Economic Report. KVMR News correspondent Sherrie Cunningham covers the annual Grass Valley Banner Grange Seed Swap event. In the latest Al Explores, KVMR Science correspondent Al Stahler brings us some BIG questions. He taps Stanford University Psychologist Dr. Justin Gardner for answers. We end with an essay by Nevada City poet Molly Fisk in her ongoing Observations from a Working Poet series.

Today we bring you the final piece of our public health series. KVMR News correspondent and Nevada County Public Health worker, Shannon Harney, looks at how Nevada County public health along with local youth leaders stepped up to change policy in order to help keep kids off of tobacco and other dangerous drugs. 

For our final piece celebrating National Public Health Week, KVMR News correspondent and Nevada County Public Health worker, Shannon Harney, explores how a coalition of different stakeholders stepped up to change city policy in order to help keep kids off of tobacco and other dangerous drugs. 

KVMR News correspondent Shannon Harney, who is also a Nevada County Public Health worker, has been sharing stories all week. Today she visits the Public Health Medical Therapy Program.