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Sonoma County crews will be picking up the last of the flood debris from Guerneville’s streets this week. On the North Bay Report, find out what else is left to do before life can return to normal. Today marks a month since the Russian River spilled over its banks and flooded a number of Sonoma […]

      

It’s been nearly a month since Guerneville and other towns along the Russian River endured the most severe flooding in over a decade.  The County of Sonoma estimated that over 500 businesses were affected by the flood. Reporter Adia White went to downtown Guerneville Monday to find out how some of those businesses are recovering. […]

      

If you visit Drake’s beach at Point Reyes National Seashore, there may still be an elephant seal or two taking up your parking space. Every year in the winter, the Northern Elephant Seal makes the California Coast its home to breed and raise its young. But this year, one colony at Point Reyes National Seashore […]

      

Many places claim the honor of being the birthplace of the environmental justice movement. But one place has, perhaps, the best claim. We’ll head to North Carolina for a preview of our Living Downstream story. Our current episode of Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast brings together a pair of storytellers. Jereann King Johnson was […]

      

Northern California Public Media’s project Living Downstream: The Environmental Justice Podcast continues, and we want to share two recent stories in the next couple of days. Today – “Fire and Rain – first they lost their forests, then they lost their farms.” Our guide to this story from Indonesia is reporter Dan Grossman. Hear the […]

      

Tenants of the Barlow in Sebastopol are working to reopen their businesses after flooding in late February devastated the open-air shopping center. The center had an extensive flood protection plan, leaving many wondering how this happened in the first place. Reporter Adia White visited the Barlow last week and has the story. We have more […]

       

This year’s Miss Sonoma County is breaking new ground in more ways than one. Miss Sonoma County 2019 was crowned on the second of March. She’s different from every other winner of the contest. She spoke openly about being a survivor of sexual assault, has embraced the idea of sharing the fact that she’s gay […]

      

Their company is a bit of a mash-up – they sell cannabis products aimed at women through retail outlets and the equivalent of Tupperware parties. Garden Society is a female-centric local cannabis company, started by two women. They sell products like low-dose chocolates and pre-rolled joints. When KRCB news director Steve Mencher found out the […]

      

Every tenant in one Healdsburg apartment building received an eviction notice. Now, the city is looking at how to protect its renters.

The city of Healdsburg stalled on an urgency ordinance that would have required landlords to pay up to 7,000 dollars in relocation fees when evicting residents without just cause or when increasing the rent by more than ten percent. The ordinance was brought to the council after five families were evicted from the Piper Street apartment complex. Reporter Adia White tells us more about the evictions that sparked the ordinance and why it was tabled.

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Every tenant in one Healdsburg apartment building received an eviction notice. Now, the city is looking at how to protect its renters. The city of Healdsburg stalled on an urgency ordinance that would have required landlords to pay up to 7,000 dollars in relocation fees when evicting residents without just cause or when increasing the […]