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This year’s California legislative session ended with a whimper rather than a bang – particularly for Gov.
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(September 12, 2015)
Alcoholic beverages are known to contribute to breast cancer. Yet some of those same products are associating themselves with fundraising campaigns to promote awareness and treatment of breast cancer.
- Court Ruling Benefits Bees
- Medical Marijuana Deal On Agenda For Legislature's Final Day
- A Reporter Adapts to Elected Office
- End Of Life Bill Passes California Assembly
- An Introduction to the Theremin
- Bipartisan Road Repair Deal Now Considered Unlikely
- Bees Still Facing Multiple Threats
- A Diverse Workforce Faces More Challenges
- Farmworker Health Survey Details Disparities
- Major Issues Unresolved As Legislature Begins Final Week
- Inside Bodega's Historic Schoolhouse
- Inside Bodega's Historic Schoolhouse
- California Continues to Grow Green Jobs
- BioBlitz Hikes Will Help Catalog The Natural History of Two Parks
- State Regulators Fine Oil And Gas Operators For Failing To Report Water Use
- Inside Bodega's Historic Schoolhouse
- California Coal Divestment Bill Heads To Governor's Desk
- Neighborhood Input Sought for Moorland Park
- Building Bipartisan Collaboration in Sacramento
- Enjoy Kid-Friendly Hikes In Your Regional Parks
- Fictionalized Petaluma Featured in new Sci-Fi Novel Series
- When the Inside Air is a Health Hazard
- Assessing Indoor Air Quality
- Grey Wolves Begin to Reappear in California
- Energy Efficiency Boosts California Economy
- Some Improvement In California Drought Year Over Year
- Noted Civil Rights Activist Dies in Santa Rosa
- Mapping one of the last frontier’s --- California’s Coastal Seafloor
- Banks Repossess More Homes In July
- Effort Renewed To Pass Right-To-Die Legislation
- Sugarloaf Park benefit concerts squeezed by attendance cap
- Flat Managed Care Tax Proposed
- Life Behind the School Counselor’s Desk
- Project Will Study How Drones Can Improve Wildfire Management
- Sausalito’s Homegrown Tall Ship
- Social Security Enters Ninth Decade
- Park Rangers Often Perform "Other Duties As Assigned"
- El Nino and the Blob Could Change Drought in California
- Feeding Birds In Your Backyard? Time to Quit
- Reborn Palm Drive Hospital Awaits Re-opening
- Coastal Commission Adopts Sea Level Rise Guidelines
- Home health workers still excluded from county’s Living Wage
- State Agrees To One Inmate's Sex Reassignment Surgery - But Not Another's
- Revisiting Rosie the Riveter
- Cities, Counties Urge Infrastructure Spending
- Rocky Fire Unpredictable For Fire Fighters
- Exploring Sonoma County’s Varied Geology
- Russian River Patrol Keeps Beach Goers Safe
- Brown Visits Rocky Fire, Calls It "New Normal"
- SAY’s Dream Center Takes Shape
- Massive Toxic Algae Bloom Flourishes Along The West Coast
- Banning Bids to Label GMO Foods
- Public Wi-Fi May Hold Risks
- Judge Clears Way For Regulators to Enforce Water Cutbacks
- Inside View Now Available at Wildlife Hospital
- After Failing Air Quality Report, Improvement Plan Suggested
- No Fire Fighter Shortage Despite State's Shrinking Prison Population
- Alternative Birthing Centers
- Community Colleges Try To Improve Education Planning
- Tracking Traffic in the Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor
- Take A Walk On The Wild Side in Sonoma County's Great Outdoors
- Californians Reduce Water Use By 27 Percent in June
- An 'Opportunity Fair' for Young Workers
- Napolitano Testifies In Senate Hearing On Campus Sexual Assualts
- Pending Sainthood for Junipero Serra Remains Controversial
- Despite Gains, Greenhouse Gas Goal Remains Elusive
- Medi-Cal Turns 50
- Barn Cats Offer 'Green' Pest Control During The Drought
- Covered California Releases 2016 Insurance Rates
- Preparing for Life Beyond Coal, Oil and Gas
- Study Shows Wildfires Occurring At Higher Elevations
- Anticipating Life After Fossil Fuels
- Get Outside and Float The Summer Away Along The Russian River
- I-10 Bridge Collapse Might Not Be California's Last
- Group Prepares Latinos to be Leaders
- Teaching Financial Literacy
- Ride-Sharing Companies, Taxi Industry Battle In State Agencies, Legislature
- Bill Would Allow Fire Fighters To Jam Interfering Drones
- Climate scientist says one El Niño year won’t end California’s four-year drought.
- Explore Sonoma County’s River Parks
- Apps Help Farmers With Efficiency During The Drought
- Climate Scientists Share Rewards, Frustrations in THIN ICE Documentary
- Medical Marijuana Regulation Bill Gains Momentum
- Seeking a Sustainable Niche in the Operating Room
- Melding Old and New at Lincoln Elementary
- Study: Cell Phone Use While Driving In California Increased In 2015
- 'Imperfect' Produce On Sale To Reduce Food Waste
- Hobby Drones Hamper Firefighting In California
- Gaining in the Fight Against AIDS
- Bill Would Legalize Citizen Recordings Of Police Officers
- Anti-Smoking Measures Stall In Assembly
- Keeping Up With White Sharks
- Community College Transfer Initiative Targets UC's Most Popular Majors
- Understanding 'Jellies'
- Right To Die Bill Faces Next Hearing
- Housing costs and the North Bay’s Vanishing Middle Class
- California Electricity Rates Could Rise For Some Users
- US Forest Service Says Conditions Ideal For Megafires in California
- EPA to Expand Pesticide Ban
- Smart Phones Sold In California Must Have Kill Switch
- Objections Raised to Congressional Drought Bill
- Documenting Restorative Justice in Santa Rosa
- All California Workers Eligible For Sick Pay Today
- The Next Generation of Food
- Assembly Republicans Introduce Transportation Plan
- Strong First Year for Sonoma Clean Power
- New Rules For Smoke Alarms To Take Effect
- COTS Re-opens Doors to Family Shelter
- Two North Coast National Marine Sanctuaries Expanded
- Vaccine Bill Wins Assembly Approval
- Landpaths Introduces ‘TrekSonoma’ Outings
- "Sodomite Suppression Act" Ruled Unconstitutional
- Framing Roseland's Future
- Summer Youth Ecology Corps Goes Back to Work
- Why The Price Of Eggs Is Skyrocketing
- Volunteers Participate in Conservancy, Stewardship of Park Lands
- California Must Change Tax Or Face Losing Billions
- Brown Now "Open" To New Taxes Without Voter Approval
- Children’s Museum to Open Indoor Exhibits
- Banks Pick Up Pace Of Home Foreclosures
- Inside Costa Rica’s Ban on In Vitro Fertilization
- Filmmaker Probes the Russian River's Health
- Green Energy Advocacy Groups Consolidate
- Lawmakers Pass State Budget That Lacks Governor's Support
- Green Roof Tops New Amy's Drive-Thru
- California Regulators Curtail Senior Water Rights
- From Softball To Skateboards, Regional Parks Are A Place To Play
- Democrats' Budget Has More Money For UC, CSU
- Prop 13 "Split-Roll" Proposed In California Legislature
- AIDS Memorial Quilts on Display in Santa Rosa
- Environmental Groups Challange Fracking in CA
- Supervisors Adopt Living Wage Proposal
- Musical Play Memorializes Labor Icon
- Democrats Counter Brown's Budget Proposal
- Assembly Tries Again on Drug Cost Containment
- Predicting Fire Before it Hits
- A Musical View from Inside San Quentin
- Second Annual Trails Challenge Returns to Sonoma County
- Feds, California Agencies Sued Over Water Management Plan
- Spreading the Word About Soil
- Marin Museum of Bicycling Set to Open
- Immigrant Health Care Bill Passes Senate
- Sonoma County Voters Reject Measure A
- Senate Passes Measure Repealing Max Grant Rule For Families
- Marin Residents Weigh Options in "Game of Floods"
- Legislature Must Act Fast On Hundreds Of Bills
- Composting’s Cloudy Future in Sonoma County
- Taylor Mountain Volunteer Trail Work This Weekend
- Undocumented Health Care Bill Moves Forward
- Medicine Disposal Requirements Upheld
- California Budget Proposal Raises Questions Of Vaccine Bill Retaliation
- Implementation of Riparian Corridor Rules Begins
- Expanding 'Motor Voter' Registrations
- State Builds Emergency Barrier To Protect Water Supplies
- Prepping for Fire Season With the Hot Shots
- California Republicans Change Tone On Immigration
- Calculating Residential Water Changes
- CMA Drops Opposition To Physician Aid In Dying
- Vineyard Water Conservation
- Privatization May Threaten California Parklands
- Brown Signs International Climate Agreement
- Field Poll On California’s Mandatory Water Reduction Plan Shows Concern
- Inside a California Mentor Household
- Personalized Support for Developmentally Disabled Adults
- Brown's Budget: Beyond Schools, Selective New Spending
- Responding to Pollution's Health Impacts
- Effort Underway to Remove "Lynching" From Penal Code
- Space Satellites Can Detect California’s Groundwater
- State Legislators Weigh Soda Tax
- Developing a One Planet Lifestyle
- Child Care Advocates Find Warmer Reception This Year At Capitol
- Sales Tax Increase Would Finance Road Repairs
- Spring Is The Perfect Time To Celebrate The Parks!
- Bill Would Move Police Investigations Outside Grand Jury System
- New Sculpture Garden Out to Make a Big Impression
- Amending Prop 13 to Fight Poverty
- Brown Defends Delta Tunnels Project, Agriculture Industry
- Sebastopol Hospital’s Reopening Delayed
- Amid Lousy Conservation, Water Board Imposes Mandated Cuts
- Public Funds Just Seed Money in Fighting Homelessness
- Undocumented Immigrant Health Care Bill's Cost Estimate: $175-$740 Million
- SRJC Opens Dream Center
- 'Health For All Act' Would Expand Health Care Coverage for Undocumented Immigrants
- Robot Face-Off! Student Competition Teaches Kids Programming, Problem Solving
- Boarding and Kayaking All Part Of The Fun In Parks Celebration 2015
- New Tools for Financing Sustainability
- Envisioning a Future for Sonoma's Developmental Center
- Young Adults with Autism Thrive in Their New Home
- Health Games -- Innovation or Fad?
- A Brief Opening of the Border at San Diego
- West Marin Papers Merging
- Birders Can Get Their Fill At Sonoma County Parks Celebration 2015
- Addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences
- The Native People of the Sonoma Coast
- The North Bay’s Tight Housing Market Assessed
- Connecting New Farmers with Land
- Parks Celebration 2015 Comes to Sonoma County
- Brown Says Water Rights Changes Coming
- ModMath App Assists Dysgraphic Students
- Slow Progress In Congressional Water Talks
- California: A State of Change
- Court Intervention Sought for Bees
- California FTB Ready For Tax Day
- Eco2School Fun Energizes Students to Drive Less
- Florida Governor Wants California Port Jobs
- Kaiser Announces Large-scale Autism Study
- Mandatory water cuts mean changes for California
- Covered California Considers Capping Specialty Drug Prices for Consumers
- New Art Museum of Sonoma County Debuts
- Riverfront Regional Park is Site of Next Underfoot 5K Run
- Tensions Appear Amidst Dwindling Water Supply
- Lawmakers Pledge More Money For UC, CSU
- Charting Local Adaptations to Climate Change
- Demanding Action for Mexico’s 43 “Disappeared” Students
- Undocumented See Support From California Democrats
- SMART's First Railcars Arrive
- Bill Would Regulate Electric Skateboards Like Bicycles
- Air Quality District Proposes New Fireplace Restrictions
- California Slow To Spend Emergency Drought Money
- Experience Family Style Camping at Spring Lake Regional Park
- The Mosquito District’s Assessment Election
- Unraveling Baseball's Unwritten Rules
- Introducing the Waterboxx
- Bill Would Require Search Warrants For Digital Files
- 100% Renewable Energy, is it Possible?
- Hybrid Trucks Deliver Small But Growing Market Share
- Job Prospects Better for California College Grads
- Some Immigrants Having Trouble Obtaining AB 60 Licenses
- Teacher-District Disagreements in Santa Rosa
- Sonoma County Regional Parks Going Green
- State Eases Sex Offender Residency Limits
- 'Right-To-Die' Proposal Sparks Tears, Impassioned Testimony at California Capitol
- 50th Anniversary Anti-War Teach-Ins
- Women's Caucus Prioritizes Work, Child Care Bills
- Redistricting Urged for SRJC Trustees
- Republicans Fail To Strip Fuels From AB 32
- New Sonoma Mountain Park Dedicated
- How the Internet Changes Thinking
- Bill Would Require Oversight Before School Police Get Military Equipment
- Creek restoration group celebrates 500th project
- Public Lands Generating Greehouse Gases
- New Parks Offer Trail Building and Maintenence Opportunities
- New Parks Offer Volunteer Trail Building and Maintenence Opportunities
- More Money For Drought Aid, But No Mandatory Conservation
- Bill Would Let Children Of Live-In Nannies Attend School In Employers' Districts
- Water Conservation Requirements Increased
- More Water Restrictions Ahead for Californians
- 'Tiny Steps' Toward Groundwater Management
- New Scrutiny For Brown's Retiree Health Care Proposal As Labor Talks Begin
- Critiquing the Internet's Economics
- California 'Safety-Net' Hospitals at Risk Amidst Health System Changes
- Schooling McDonald's on Localism
- Discover Sonoma County's Wild Beauty In Bloom
- California Teacher Layoffs Up Slightly This Year
- Sonoma County’s Climate Change Vulnerabilities
- Talking Fish -- Salmon Restoration Conference Come to Santa Rosa
- Talking Fish -- Salmon Restoration Conference Comes to Santa Rosa
- Sonoma County Bird Census Nears Completion
- California Lawmakers Look at Unequal Access to Health Care
- Solar Energy's Long History
- Report Criticizes California's Response To Underground Economy
- Inside Richmond's Immigration Detention Center
- Task Force Recommendations on Accountability
- Discover Hood Mountain Regional Park & Open Space Preserve
- Big Businesses Weighing In On Drought
- California Doctors, Lawmakers Renew Push for Medi-Cal Rate Increase
- Task Force Recommendations on Healing
- California Water Conservation Rate Drops As Does Water Content in Snow
- Task Force Recommendations on Community Policing
- Court Rejects Blanket Restrictions For Sex Offenders
- A Pathway to Apprenticeships
- Three Women In California's Big Five
- The History of Women’s History Month
- Reimagining Sonoma County’s Libraries
- 10,000 Degrees Heats Up Educational Opportunities
- Atkins Introduces Affordable Housing Plan
- Adjunct Professors Stage 1-Day Walkout
- California's Plastic Bag Ban Heading Back To Ballot
- Inspired Forward by LandPaths
- Could Taking Carbon out of the Atmosphere Save the Climate?
- Use of Medication On Foster Youth Investigated
- Electric Cars Find Favor in Sonoma County
- Do You Know Spring Lake Regional Park?
- DNA Collection Bill Would Reverse Part Of Prop 47
- 'The Right to Stay Home'
- Lawmakers Pushing For "Reasonably" Priced Prescription Drugs
- Sonoma County’s Hunger Index
- Wildlife Officials Hope To Restore Largest Salmon Run in California
- Parasite Threatens Native Plants
- Lawmakers Should Start Planning in Case of Loss of Kids' Health Funding, LAO Says
- Efforts to Save Endangered White Abalone Paying Off
- Marin’s Breast Cancer Cluster Disputed
- North Sonoma Mountain Regional Park and Open Space Preserve Opens Saturday
- More Self-Service Terminals At California DMVs
- Reconsidering Homeless Encampments
- New Push To Regulate Medical Marijuana In California
- Sonoma County's Heritage Roads
- California Lawmakers Take On Policing Issues
- A Plan for Serial Inebriates
- Education Funding Debate Begins At California Capitol
- First Annual SRJC Wine Classic Raises Scholarship Money
- The Legal Battle Over Foie Gras Continues
- Valentine's Day Walk Along Santa Rosa Creek Trail
- California Parks System Faces Tough Road To Sustainability
- A Net Neutrality Victory for Consumers
- Atkins Wants New Vehicle Fee For Transportation Projects
- Locals heading for Oakland Climate March
- More Areas in California Would Exceed Federal Limits On Smog Under Proposal
- 'Face Technology' Moves Online
- Another Strong Year Ahead For California Economy?
- Environmental Groups Sue State Over Pesticide Plan
- Independent Commission Calls For Big Changes In State Parks Department
- 'Big Data' Aids Flu Predictions
- Sonoma County Vinters Commit to Sustainability
- Understanding Fragrance
- Wildlife Agencies See Near Collapse Of 2014 Salmon Species
- Uproar Halts Supervisors’ Session
- Regulations Proposed For E-Cigarettes In California
- New Palm Drive Operating Plan Endorsed
- Brown Says Criminal Justice System Must Be Improved
- Healthy Aging in Sonoma County
- Regional Parks Focuses on Invasive Plant Removal
- California Farmers Turn Sugar Beets Into Energy
- Sonoma County's Economic OUtlook for 2015
- The Annual State of the County Report on KRCB FM
- Brown Taking On UC Affordability, Access
- A Call for Hospitals to Shed Fossil Fuel Holdings
- Amazon, California Move Past Online Sales Tax Battle
- Mystery Goo Slimes Bay Birds
- Agents Say Broader Health Insurance Market Has More Options, But No Subsidies
- The California King Tide Project
- Lower Gas Prices Not Likely To Lower Grocery Bills
- Talking Rock Climbing with Kevin Jorgeson
- John Brown’s Body at San Quentin
- Regional Parks Presents Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service.
- Senate Report: Overhaul California's Long-Term Care System
- Independent Scientific Study On Fracking in California Released
- Forum to Offer 'Perspectives in Immigration'
- LAO: Brown Budget Proposal "Prudent" But Could Be Improved
- Revisiting San Francisco's 1915 World's Fair
- Hertzberg Introduces California Tax Reform Bill
- Mental Health Staff Strikes Kaiser
- A California First Lady Unlike Any Other
- Levels of toxic flame retardants decline in San Francisco Bay
- Tolay Lake's Rich History Includes A Riverfront Town
- Boxer Won't Run Again In 2016
- Local high school student invents new way to store water, stars company
- Foie Gras Back On The Menu In California
- Trevi Systems: Out to Cut the Cost of Desalination
- LumiGrow brightens things up
- California Faces Challenges To Repairing Infrastructure
- Brown Optimistic, Yet Cautious In Fourth Inaugural Address
- PulpWorks Takes on Plastic Packaging
- Sonoma Technology keeps its eye on the air
- Brown To Be Sworn In For Record Fourth Term
- Governor Brown To Be Sworn In For Record Fourth Term
- Sonoma Valley Regional Park Hosts A Volunteer Work Day
- New Law Aims To Protect Minors Online
- KRCB Documentary Examines Health Impacts of Economic Disparities
- California Accepting Applications For Undocumented Driver Licences
- Winter Snow Survey Better Than Last Year But Not Good Enough
- Plastic Bag Ban Opponents Turn In Referendum Signatures
- New Laws: California Prohibits Health Insurers From Imposing Waiting Periods in Small Businesses
- Riverfront Regional Park in Windsor Has A Hidden Gem
- Covered California Misses Opportunity to Increase Insurer Competition
- Russian River Inspires Unconventional "Opera"
- New Laws: Concussion Rules For Young Athletes
- EpiPens To Be Required At California Schools
- California Prison Population Down Slightly
- New experiment will use planes, ships and satellites to understand California rainfall
- New Laws: Yes Means Yes Going Into Effect
- Venture Capital Meets Conservation in New Coalition
- Scouring the Seas for Plastic
- Covered California Extends Enrollment Deadline, Urges More Sign-Ups
- Community Organizing
- California's Retiree Health Care Costs Jump Past $70 Billion
- Applying Restorative Justice at School
- California Housing Market's Middle-Class Squeeze Deepened in 2014
- Restorative Justice Comes to Santa Rosa Schools
- Only 42 Percent Of Californians Voted In November's Election
- Community Policing Task Force Recommendations
- Spring Lake Regional Park Keeps Santa Rosa From Flooding
- UC, CSU Get Record High Applications
- Rescuing Coho Salmon from Redwood Creek
- Covered California Setting Strong Enrollment Pace
- Napa Rebounds From August Earthquake
- California November Revenues Short Of Projections
- A General Plan for Armstrong Grove & Austin Creek Recreation Area
- Study Says California Drought Caused By Natural Climate Patterns
- Armstrong Grove Pipeline Project Stirs Controversy
- Toy Safety Largely Left to Consumers
- California Considering Virtual Currency Regulations
- 'Behind the Gates of Gomorrah'
- Newly Completed Coastal Prairie Trail Gets Dedicated
- Women Relatively Rare In Corporate California
- Banning Microbeads
- Covered California Attempts to Calm Immigrants' Fears
- What's lacking in farm workers' health care
- Democrats Encouraging Quicker Completion of College
- Living with Migrant Farmworkers