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Cal State San Bernardino's 10th annual Latino Education and Advocacy Days - LEAD Summit X - opens next week.  This year's summit will honor two influential indiviuals in the Latino community.  KVCR's Dean Anagnostopoulis has more.

The first day of spring looked more like winter yesterday (Wednesday), providing lightning, thunder,  heavy rain, and even hail to the inland valleys, and an unseasonable dump of snow in the inland mountains.  More from KVCR's Ken Vincent.

Thousands of health care workers from the University of California are back on the job today, after a one-day strike yesterday.  The Union representing those employees has been at odds withthe UC system over contract negotiations, with eaxch side accusing the other of operating in bad faith.  At a rally yesterday (Wednesday) in Los Angeles, the cause drew attention from U.S. Senator - and candidate for President - Bernie Sanders.  From our collegeu station KCRW in Los Angeles, Steve Chiotakis filed this story for the California Report.

MECCA (CNS) - A desert water agency was ``the elephant in the room'' Tuesday as representatives from seven states, along with several key district officials, met in Phoenix to sign a Southwestern drought pact that excludes the
Imperial Irrigation District, the head of the agency said.

RIVERSIDE (CNS) - Riverside County Board of Supervisors Chairman Kevin
Jeffries vowed Tuesday to hammer out a plan of action with state and local
agencies to prevent another ``Super Bloom'' stampede in and around Lake
Elsinore this weekend.
   ``The blooming poppies may be fun to look at, but the traffic problems
they've created are unmatched in the county,'' said Jeffries, a longtime
Lake Elsinore resident. ``We're seeing 40,000 to 50,000 people going down there
on a given day. It has done irreparable harm to our local residents. People in

Gavin Newsom raised nearly $8 million to celebrate his inauguration as California governor earlier this year.  Capital Public Radio's Ben Adler looks at who gave that money - and why it matters.

The day before Gavin Newsom was sworn in as California’s 40th governor earlier this year, he held a private lunch for major donors at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum.

The family of Stephon Clark spent the one-year anniversary of his death commemorating him with music and calls for justice.  Capital Public Radio's Sammy Caiola was at the ceremony yesterday (Monday).

At the Genesis Church in Meadowview on Monday, neighborhood residents and Clark’s loved ones gathered to celebrate the 22-year-old’s life and legacy. He died March 18, 2018, after Sacramento police shot him in his grandmother’s backyard.

Thousands of visitors flocked to Lake Elsinore yesterday (Sunday) to get a look at the "super bloom" of poppies on hillsides around the city.  But the crowds grew so big that they overwhelmed Lake Elsinore public safety officials, resulting in authorities shutting the event down.  More from KVCR's Ken Vincent.

A candlelight vigil will be held tonight at 8:00 pm outside of Cal Skate in Grand Terrace to remember Ryan Harsany.  Harsany, 43, owner of the Grand Terrace roller skating rink, died of gunshot wounds at an area hospital, after authorities responded to reports of a robbery and fire at the facility.  More from KVCR's Ken Vincent. 

Repairs are being made to a street in Chino Hills that buckled after a water main broke yesterday in the 1700 block of Rancho Hills Drive, affecting some 50 homes.   More from KVCR's Ken Vincent.

If you’re around Fontana on Sunday, you might catch yourself hearing the loud roar of engines coming from Auto Club Speedway where the 23rd Annual Auto Club 400 Nascar race is taking place. KVCR’s Jonathan Linden has the story.   

Backers of rent control are trying again  this year in the California Legisalture after lawmakers and voters rejected measures last year.  More from KVCR's Ken Vincent.

A group of Democrats announced new bills yesterday (THURSDAY) that also include rent caps and eviction protections for tenants.

Assemblyman Rob Bonta (BAHN-tuh) says it’s crucial to help renters who “face daily fears.”

An environmentalis group is questionng the use of bulldozers to fight major wildfires, saying theyre ineffective and leaving lasting environmental damage.  KVCR 's Ken Vincent has details.

The Green New Deal nationally includes social justice goals that aren't always attached to plans to fight climate change.  Captial Public Radio's Ezra David Romero reports on how California climate policies began.

Last month congressional freshman representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helped lay out a grand plan for the nation to address climate change. It's called the Green New Deal.

"We must be as ambitious and innovative in our solution as possible." [6 seconds]

It draws from California's climate goals. But does California need a new Green New Deal of its own? CapRadio's Ezra David Romero explores.

A record number of Californians are now registered to vote - and the state's registration rate is the highest in nearly 25  years.  Capital Public Radio's Ben Adler reports on the new data released yesterday (Monday) by the Secretary of State's office.

The new report shows California had nearly 20 million registered voters on the rolls as of a month ago. And the state’s 79 percent registration rate is the highest since just before the 1996 presidential election, when it topped 80 percent.

Are fatal shootings by police on the decline in California?  That's the contention by a law enforcement-backed group in a recent video.  Capital Public Radio's PolitiFact reporter Chris Nichols fact-checked the group's claim.

Protect California is supporting one of two competing bills at the state Capitol that would address when police can use deadly force.

It favors a bill that maintains the threshold of using deadly force when ‘reasonable,’ while a competing proposal would change the standard to ‘when necessary.’

According to a new report from UC Davis, Kansas Staste Univeristy and the University of Wisconsin, The Renewable Fuel standard is doing great harm to water and wildlife habitat and is increasing carbon emissions. KVCR's Katie Trojano has more.

Past criminal records prevent millions of Californians from obtaining housing and jobs, and disallows them from volunteering at their child's school. But now there's an effort in Sacramento to automatically sheild those records for some low-level offenders. Cap Radio's Chris Nichols has the story.