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Pop-Up Event In Oakland Brings Artists, Music Lovers Together

In Downtown Oakland, a pop-up event called couchdate is making room for artists and music lovers to hang out, play and connect with one another. 

Reporter: Ariana Proehl, KQED

Worker safety advocates a…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Proposition 1 Narrowly Approved By Voters

A proposal from Governor Gavin Newsom to build housing and mental health treatment beds for Californians experiencing homelessness was narrowly approved by California voters. Proposition 1 allows the…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Buying And Selling A Home In California Set To Change

The National Association of Realtors, one of the most powerful real estate groups in the country, announced on Friday it would settle a major class-action lawsuit that had accused the group of artifi…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Castaic Residents Say A Nearby Landfill is Making Them Sick

The margin is still too close to call between Yes and No votes on Governor Newsom’s Proposition 1 mental health ballot measure. So close that opponents of the measure, who had previously conceded the…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

California's Worst Wage Theft Offender Still In Business

Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It’s called wage theft. But a KQED investigation found California regulators have failed to force the worst offender they cited in the state, to pay …

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Students from India Power the Increase in International Students in the United States

Can California Legislate Its Way to Happiness?

The newly formed Select Committee on Happiness and Public Policy Outcomes had its first meeting this week to explore the topic of 'happiness.'

Lynn La, Ca…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

A Coding Program at San Quentin Offers Hope for Careers After Prison

Humanitarian Parole Program Can Continue

An Oakland man is breathing easier… after a program that protects a Nicaraguan friend survived a court challenge by several Republican-led states. But with a n…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Proposition 1 Will Likely Succeed, Opponents Say

Opponents of Proposition 1 are conceding that the state ballot measure -- aimed at housing Californians with severe mental illness -- is likely to pass. That result will allow the state to borrow mon…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

National Immigration Courts Lose Funding in New Spending Bill

When the Biden administration opened a new immigration court in the Bay Area city of Concord last month… it was part of an effort to cope with a nationwide backlog of more than 3 million cases. But a…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago

Why California Isn't Ready to Scrap Daylight Saving Time

Why We Keep Springing Forward

Way back in November 2018, California voters overwhelmingly passed Proposition 7, a measure that was supposed to keep us from having to adjust our clocks twice a year for…

Published on 1 year, 9 months ago