Welcoming family into your home for Thanksgiving? Here's how to keep COVID outNovember 22, 2021Intergenerational indoor gatherings, a.k.a, Thanksgiving dinner, still pose a COVID risk to older adults and the immunocompromised. Here's how to keep everyone safe.
Health CareCalifornia Plans for a Post-Roe World as Abortion Access Shrinks ElsewhereNovember 21, 2021While other states dramatically restrict abortion and the conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court weighs Roe v. Wade, California is preparing to absorb the country’s abortion patients.
UC lecturers win raises, concessions in deal that averts two-day strikeNovember 21, 2021The University of California and the UC lecturers union reached an agreement after years of negotiating, heading off a planned strike.
Sacramento Kings fire head coach Luke Walton after poor start to NBA seasonNovember 21, 2021The team had lost seven of its last eight games, and fans were calling for the team to let him go at a recent home game.
EnvironmentFour San Joaquin Valley groundwater plans deemed inadequateNovember 20, 2021State officials warn some of the state’s most powerful and largest agricultural districts that their plans fail to address how over-pumping could harm local communities’ drinking water supplies.
UC officially ditches any tests for undergraduate admissionsNovember 20, 2021After doing away with the SAT and ACT in 2020, the University of California said Thursday it would no longer consider using any tests as part of its undergraduate admissions process.
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word 'squaw' from federal landsNovember 20, 2021"Racist terms have no place in our vernacular or on our federal lands," Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said as she formally declared "squaw" to be a derogatory term.
Kyle Rittenhouse is acquitted of all charges in the trial over killing 2 in KenoshaNovember 19, 2021Rittenhouse was 17 years old and armed with an AR-15-style rifle when he fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third in August 2020. A jury found he acted in self-defense on a night of unrest.
Insight Video: Sacramento mother reflects on family’s time trapped in AfghanistanNovember 19, 2021 | Vicki Gonzalez | Andrew Nixon | Paul ConleyAfter the fall of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan in August, dozens of Sacramento-area families were stuck in the country for months. CapRadio’s Vicki Gonzalez spoke with a mother upon her family’s return.
Health CareAmericans can wait many weeks to see a therapist. California law aims to fix that.November 18, 2021Many Americans with mental illness report waiting weeks for care, even for serious depression or suicidality. Now California has a new law for insurers, limiting those wait times to two weeks or less.